Elwood
Thomas
Baker
Born in Marion, Marion, Ohio, United States
Ancestors 
Son of Charles Baker
and Tacey (Thomas) Baker
Brother of
Mary Anna (Baker) Allen
Husband of
Sallie (Wilson) Baker
— married
7 Apr 1880 in Indiana, United States
Father of
[private daughter (unknown - unknown)],
Charles Graham Baker,
Donald Mitchell Baker and
Leslie Stuart Baker
Died
at about age 85
in Queens, New York City, New York, United States
Profile last modified
| Created 5 Mar 2009
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Biography
Elwood was one of the pioneers in the telephone business, being secretary and treasurer of Evansville Telephone Co., Cumberland Telephone Co., at Nashville and afterwards purchasing agent of Western Electric Co., Chicago.
Elwood was also a teacher and writer of Whist game for many years.
He, along with his son, Charles Graham Baker, invented the card game "Gin Rummy" in 1909. It is a card game with two players that originally came from a "whiskey poker game" of the 1700s.
It was developed to be a faster form of rummy. Use standard 52-card deck with the cards ranking from low-to-high is A-2-3-4-5-6-7-8-9-10-J-Q-K. The objective in Gin Rummy is to score more points than your opponent.
Sources
- Obituary: https://www.newspapers.com/clip/72275862/
- "United States Census, 1910," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MP1M-X9B : accessed 28 February 2021), Elwood T Baker, Brooklyn Ward 24, Kings, New York, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) ED 626, sheet 2A, family 33, NARA microfilm publication T624 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1982), roll 974; FHL microfilm 1,374,987.
- "United States Census, 1920", database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MJ5K-7MC : 2 February 2021), Elwood T Baker, 1920.
- Gin Rummy inventor: https://www.newspapers.com/clip/72276103/
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