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-{{Infobox person
-| name                    = Betsy Baker
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-| birth_name              = Betsy Russell Baker
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-| birth_date              = {{birth date and age |1842|08|20|df=n}}
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-| birth_place             = {{nowrap|[[Great Brington]], [[England]], [[United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland|United Kingdom]]}}<ref name=Nebraska>{{cite web|url=http://www.nehca.org/UserDocs/Pages/Nebraska_Centenarians_1867_to_2001.pdf|title=NEBRASKA’S CENTENARIANS AGE 107 OR ABOVE — 1867 to 2001 |first=E.A.|last=Kral|publisher=Nebraska Health Care Association|accessdate=23 December 2014}}</ref>
-| death_date              = {{death date|1955|10|24|df=n}}<br />(aged {{age in years and days|1842|08|20|1955|10|24}})
-| death_place             = [[Tecumseh, Nebraska|Tecumseh]], [[Nebraska]], [[United States]]
-| occupation              = [[Supercentenarian]]
-| known_for               = First listed oldest person in [[Guinness World Records]]
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-'''Betsy Russell Baker''' (August 20, 1842 – October 24, 1955) was a [[United Kingdom|British]]-born [[United States|American]] [[supercentenarian]]. She was the first listed supercentenarian by the [[Guinness World Records]] as the world's then-oldest person.<ref name=Nebraska/> In 2002, researchers confirmed she was the world's oldest living person by modern verification standards for an unknown period of time prior to her death on 24 October 1955.<ref name=Nebraska/><ref name=nehca>{{cite web|url=http://www.nehca.org/pdfs/supercentenearians.pdf |title=NEHCA list of Nebraska supercentenarians|archiveurl= https://web.archive.org/web/20120311154332/http://www.nehca.org/pdfs/supercentenearians.pdf|archivedate=20 July 2011 }}</ref>
-Born in [[Great Brington, England]] in the United Kingdom, she immigrated to the U.S. state of [[Nebraska]]. She died at [[Tecumseh, Nebraska]], aged 113 years, 65 days, after living in [[Johnson County, Nebraska|Johnson County]] for 65 years.<ref name=Nebraska/> She was the second person in the world (after [[Delina Filkins]]) to have reached the age of 113 and to have been validated by modern standards.<ref name=nehca/>
-==References==
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-==External links==
-*[http://www.grg.org/Gallery/Pre1850sGallery.html Photo Gallery for Supercentenarians born before 1850] [[Gerontology Research Group]]
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 [[Category:1842 births]]
 [[Category:1955 deaths]]
-[[Category:People from Daventry (district)]]
+[[Category:People from West Northamptonshire District]]
-[[Category:English emigrants to the United States]]
+[[Category:British supercentenarians]]
-[[Category:English supercentenarians]]
-[[Category:People from Johnson County, Nebraska]]
 [[Category:American supercentenarians]]
-[[Category:British emigrants to the United States]]
+[[Category:Women supercentenarians]]
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