Bert Webster Baker

1875 - 1970  (94 years)

• Name	Bert Webster Baker
  Birth	2 Mar 1875	Ossian, Winneshiek, IA
  Gender	Male
  Census	1 Jun 1880	Military, Winneshiek, IA
  	age 6, born IA, at school, living with parents
  Census	1 Jan 1885	Military, Winneshiek, IA
  	B.W., age 10, born Winneshiek Co, living with parents
  Census	5 Jun 1900	Sioux City, Woodbury, IA
  	age 25, born Mar 1875 in IA, traveling salesman, living with parents
  Census	23 May 1910	Hale Co, TX
  	age 31, born IA, mx1 for 1 yr, speculator in lands & city properties, parents born NY/IN, living with in-laws
  WW1 Reg Card	7 Sep 1918	Sioux City, Woodbury, IA
  	age 43, born 2 Mar 1875, in oil business at Baker Oil Co of Werland WY, NOK Mrs. E.J. Baker of Los Angeles CA (mother)
  Census	12 Apr 1930	Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
  	age 55, born IA, 1st marr at 34, parents born NY/IN
  Census	2 Apr 1940	Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
  	age 65, born IA, divorced, C1 ed, residing Portland OR in 1935, salesman of wholesale produce, boarding at Cadillac Hotel
  Death	Feb 1970	Bettendorf, Scott, IA
  Burial	Davenport Memorial Park, Davenport, IA
  Person ID	I16283	Family Tree
  Last Modified	3 May 2017

  
  

  Father	William Henry Adams Baker,   b. 10 Jun 1842, Crown Point, Essex, NY d. 22 Oct 1908, Sioux City, Woodbury, IA (Age 66 years)
  Mother	Eliza Jane Webster,   b. 24 Feb 1848, Indiana d. 3 Sep 1926, Los Angeles Co, CA (Age 78 years)
  Marriage	26 Mar 1866	Fayette Co, IA
  Notes	from "Iowa, County Marriages, 1838-1934" (familysearch.org) On 26 Mar 1866 in Fayette Co, IA, W.H. Baker married E.J. Webster. (Other sources mention 24 Mar)
  Family ID	F6114	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 1	Lillian G Grimes,   b. 3 Sep 1878, Derby, Lucas, IA d. 19 Sep 1975, Riverside Co, CA (Age 97 years)  [1]
  Marriage	25 Dec 1910
  Children	1. Robert Grimes Baker,   b. 25 Sep 1910, Kansas City, Jackson, MO d. 24 Mar 1923, Pasadena, Los Angeles, CA (Age 12 years)   2. Alice Virginia Baker,   b. 5 Apr 1913, Long Beach, Los Angeles, CA d. 2 Feb 2001, California (Age 87 years)
  Family ID	F6214	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	3 May 2017

  
  

  Family 2	Nellie,   b. 1880, Colorado
  Family ID	F6219	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	3 May 2017

  
  

• Headstones

  Bert Webster Baker Gravestone Bert W. Baker / 1875 - 1970 [located at Davenport Memorial Park, Davenport, Scott, IA]

  
  

• Notes

  from "Genealogy and history of the Baker, Andrus, Clark, and Adams families", 1920 Bert Webster Baker was educated at the public school, at Carlton College, Northfield, and Ann Arbor, Mich. He worked for his father for some time, finally investing at Plainview, Texas, in lands from which he secured a competencey. From here he entered in the oil industry at Casper, Wyoming, where he is now located.

  
  

• Sources

  [S25] Albert Clark Baker, Genealogy and history of the Baker, Andrus, Clark, and Adams families, (1920).