About Elwood Thomas Baker
Lived 1854 – 1938 (aged 83–84). Elwood Thomas Baker was an inventor.
Elwood Thomas Baker (1854 – November 21, 1938) was a whist teacher in Brooklyn, New York. He and his son, Charles Graham Baker, invented Gin rummy in 1909.
On November 21, 1938, Baker died at the Grand Central Parkway Rest Home, Jamaica, Queens.
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Who was Elwood Thomas Baker?
American inventor of Gin rummy
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Elwood Thomas Baker was born in 1854.
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Elwood Thomas Baker died on 22 November 1938.
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Elwood Thomas Baker was an inventor.
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