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Note: Father Ydna Haplogroup R1b1a2a1b5 Edgar Jr., more often known as Bake, was born and raised in Visalia, Tulare Co., CA. He graduated from Visalia HS.where he was on the football team. Attended UCLA undergraduate, graduate school at U of CA, Berkeley, earning PhD in Microbiology. His first post-graduate work was at the Hooper Foundation (a Stanford research unit at San Francisco) with Dr.K.F. Meyer, where he worked on plague vaccine during WWII. He had wanted to join the Navy during the war, but was allowed to enlist due to asthma from which he suffered lifelong and so turned his efforts toward preventive medicine. He flew from CA to NY with test tubes of plague bacilli in briefcase...(imagine doing that these days!) In 1947 he accepted a position at Rockefeller Institute (now University) in Manhattan, NY for 2-3 years where he was able to work side by side with eminent microbiologists of the time. In 1947 he was offered a full professorship position at Boston University School of Medicine in September, 1949, becoming chairman of Department. of Microbiology several years later, when Dr.Geoffrey Edsall left to take a position in international epidemiology. Bake remained in this position until his retirement in 1979. Areas of early interest included plague (vaccine) and salmonella; later immuno-microbiology. Having always wanted to learn to sail, Bake with his wife, Marian, began sailing lessons in a 12 ft. Mercury sloop at the Community Boating Club on the Charles River in Boston. They bought their own 12 ft. day sailer, a Lightning they named "Blaze" (with a dinghy named "Circe" built by Bake in the basement of the Waban house) which they moored at the Squantum Yacht Club in Quincy Bay. As their interest in sailing solidified they bought a homelot in Rockport, MA with the intention of building a small weekend and summer home just 40 miles north of Boston on Cape Ann. In 1962 they sold their Newton home and moved there year round mooring their boat in Rockport's Sandy Bay. In time they graduated into a larger sailing vessel (Feather) and joined the Blue Water Sailing Club, which took them from Sandy Bay in Rockport to Portsmouth, NH, "down Maine" and to the Grand Caymen Islands where they bought some property and had once thought to build a winter home. Scuba diving and other marine hobbies followed. Unfortunately these plans were curtailed by his wife's health issues and need to live close to a US medical center. Bake was also an accomplished carpenter. As a young man he helped his father Edgar, Sr. build the Baker family summer camp cabin in Kings Canyon National Park, CA which still stands with some additions, now owned by descendants of Bake's sister Ruth. He enjoyed working with the electronics of the day, building a "hi-fi" system and the lovely redwood cabinet in which it was housed for many years, now adapted for other uses. He also built the Baker Rockport home from scratch, from foundation to roof, with volunteer help from the micro dept. for the raising, It is still owned by family.
1940 Census: Tract 6B, Berkeley, Oakland Judicial Township, Alameda, California (977 Regal Road) Edgar E Baker 26 married b. California, Fellowship, research med. Bacteriology, University Marian R Baker 24 wife b.Missouri Public Health Nurse Mae E Logan 54 mother-in-law b KS Home in 1935: same home for all
SSDI Name: Edgar E. Baker SSN: 555-12-0517 Last Residence: 01966 Rockport, Essex, Massachusetts, United States of America Born: 12 Oct 1913 Died: 1 Mar 1992 State (Year) SSN issued: California (Before 1951 )
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