Emaline Philokely Baker collection

Collection

Identifier: 90.100-Alumni-2009-Baker

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

This collection consists of materials connected to Emaline Baker. It includes coursework related to home economics, photograph taken during the time she was in school in San Marcos, and Emaline's diploma for a Bachelor of Science dated August 1925.

Dates

1925, undated

Creator

Baker, Emaline Philokely, 1900-1993 (Person)

Conditions Governing Access

Open to researchers without restriction.

Conditions Governing Use

Copyright restrictions may apply. Special Collections and Archives owns the physical items in our collections, but copyright normally belongs to the creator of the materials or their heirs. The researcher has full responsibility for determining copyright status, obtaining permission to publish from copyright holders, and abiding by current copyright laws when publishing or displaying copies of Special Collections and Archives material in print or electronic form.

Biographical note

Emma Philokely Baker was born in Emilee, Texas, on 27 September 1900 and died here in Austin on 6 May 1993. Along the way she earned a degree at Southwest Texas State Teachers College and also changed her first name to "Emaline" while a student. Her family moved to Woodville when she was about five so she could have better schooling. She followed cousins named Barnes to San Marcos with some worry as she was thought to be a sickly girl. But the hills seemed to be good for her and she came out in better shape than when she entered (according to a family story). Her major was Home Economics and she taught that subject for many years all over south and east Texas before meeting her husband-to-be, Justin O'Connor, in San Benito. She dropped out of teaching between 1930 and 1947 to raise her two children, Carol May and Michael, but returned as a 4th grade teacher in 1947 in Bridge City and stayed there until she retired in 1961.

Biography written by Jim Thompson (donor).