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'{{Infobox person | name = Betsy Baker | birth_name = Betsy Russell Baker | birth_date = {{birth date|1842|08|20|mf=y}} | 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|mf=y}}<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]] }} '''Betsy Russell Baker''' (August 20, 1842 – October 24, 1955) was an [[English people|English]]-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 had been the world's oldest living person by modern verification standards for an unknown period of time prior to her death on October 24, 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== <references/> ==External links== *[http://www.grg.org/Gallery/Pre1850sGallery.html Photo Gallery for Supercentenarians born before 1850] [[Gerontology Research Group]] {{DEFAULTSORT:Baker, Betsy}} [[Category:1842 births]] [[Category:1955 deaths]] [[Category:People from Daventry (district)]] [[Category:English emigrants to the United States]] [[Category:English supercentenarians]] [[Category:People from Tecumseh, Nebraska]] [[Category:American supercentenarians]] {{US-bio-stub}} {{England-bio-stub}}'