The Baker surname

In the chronology 12 people

The people of this surname named in the county’s dated events, as the names index lists them. Each printed name is its own heading; names that may be one person are not merged.

• Baker, Buck 5 entries, 1956–1959
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  • May 13, 1956: Buck Baker wins the spring 100-lap race at Orange Speedway
  • September 30, 1956: Fireball Roberts wins the fall race at Orange Speedway
  • 1956–1958: The fight over Sunday racing, 1956–1958
  • March 23, 1958: Sunday stock car racing returns to Orange Speedway, and Buck Baker wins the 100-mile race
  • January 1959: A Hollywood crew films a racing drama at Orange Speedway and the Colonial Inn
• Baker, Charlotte Loomis 1 entry, 1917
  • June 29, 1917: The King's Daughters stage the musical comedy Carmena for charity
• Baker, Dorothy Sue 2 entries, 1979–1983
  • 1979–1989: Town elections and bond votes, 1979–1989
  • November 8, 1983: Voters elect Baker, Horn, Wiggins and Lotchin to the Chapel Hill-Carrboro school board
• Baker, Howard 1 entry, 1973
  • June 25-26, 1973: Governor Holshouser and Senator Howard Baker address a revenue-sharing conference at the Carolina Inn
• Baker, Jim 3 entries, 1982–1994
  • March 29, 1982: Carrboro hires Regina Kay Brough as its finance director
  • October 21, 1994: Chapel Hill's internal audit finds about $35,000 missing from town parking receipts
  • September 26, 1994: Chapel Hill suspends its parking services superintendent after an audit finds receipts may be missing
• Baker, Julian Meredith 1 entry, 1877
  • June 1877: The reopened university graduates its first class
• Baker, Mary 1 entry, 1896
  • February 1896: A $3,000 gift turns the old gymnasium into Commons Hall
• Baker, Newton D. 2 entries, 1917–1918
  • June 6, 1917: Secretary of War Newton D. Baker gives the wartime commencement address
  • October 26, 1918: President Edward Kidder Graham dies of influenza and pneumonia at his home in Chapel Hill
• Baker, Quinton 4 entries, 1960–1965
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• Baker, Robert 2 entries, 1775–1777
  • 1775–1779: Orange County's militia in the Revolution, 1775–1779
  • August 1777: The county court binds James Empey not to recruit soldiers for another state
• Baker, Simmons J. 1 entry, 1831
  • June 22, 1831: Friends of education organize the North Carolina Institute of Education at Chapel Hill
• Baker, Sue 4 entries, 1986–1993
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  • October 20, 1986: Superintendent Gerry House asks the school board to take on the racial gap in test scores
  • December 1991: Superintendent Gerry House resigns to lead the Memphis city schools
  • 1991–1992: Replacing Superintendent Gerry House, 1991–1992
  • December 2, 1993: State denies the Chapel Hill-Carrboro schools a violence-prevention grant

In books and archives 5 headings

Subject headings from the library catalogs Orange County Indexed gathers. A family heading collects genealogies and family papers; a person heading, the works about that person.

• Baker, Ella, 1903-1986 2 works
• Baker, Bruce E., 1971- 1 work
• Baker, Etta, 1913-2006 1 work
• Baker, Quinton E. 1 work
• Baker, William O. (William Oliver), 1915-2005 1 work

In the historical records 276 records

34 deeds, 1 records of enslaved people, 32 marriages, 183 court minutes, 15 tax list entries and 11 wills and papers, oldest first. Every record that names someone of this surname, as the record spells it; choose a collection to narrow the list. Baker marriages in full · Search the name in every collection