Daniel Baker was a private in the US Army during World War I. Born in Mantgum, Baarderadeel (now Littenseradiel), Friesland, The Netherlands, to Gerrit Eeltjes Bakker and Geertje Douwes Kuperus, he never married. At the age of 10, he and his family immigrated to the US on 17 Apr 1895, at Ellis Island, on the SS Majestic. He was naturalized in 1909. In 1920 he lived as a boarder with the Zysling family, (his sister) working as a laborer in Paterson, NJ. He was admitted to the US National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers in Los Angeles, CA in Oct 1932, suffering from arterial sclerosis and hemorrhoids. He died of active pulmonary tuberculosis in 1939.
Daniel Baker was a private in the US Army during World War I. Born in Mantgum, Baarderadeel (now Littenseradiel), Friesland, The Netherlands, to Gerrit Eeltjes Bakker and Geertje Douwes Kuperus, he never married. At the age of 10, he and his family immigrated to the US on 17 Apr 1895, at Ellis Island, on the SS Majestic. He was naturalized in 1909. In 1920 he lived as a boarder with the Zysling family, (his sister) working as a laborer in Paterson, NJ. He was admitted to the US National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers in Los Angeles, CA in Oct 1932, suffering from arterial sclerosis and hemorrhoids. He died of active pulmonary tuberculosis in 1939.
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Pvt 11 Field Arty
6 Division
US Army
World War I
Nov 15, 1939
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