Bibliography: Herringshaw, Thomas William. Herringshaw's Encyclopedia of American Biography of the Nineteenth Century, Chicago, IL:American Publishers' Association, 1902. p. 69 BAKER, JAMES H., soldier, public official, was born May 6, 1829, in Monroe, Ohio. He received his education at the Wesleyan University of that state; became a teacher, and had charge of a female seminary at Richmond, Ind. In 1853 he purchased the Scioto Gazette and became its editor; in 1855 was elected secretary of state for Ohio, and subsequently removed to Minnesota and became the secretary of that state. He served as a colonel in the army in 1862 and 1863; was made provost-marshal for the department of Missouri, and served as such until the close of the rebellion, having been made a brigadier-general. He was then appointed register of public lands at Boonville, Mo., and in 1871 was appointed commissioner of pensions, resigning the position in 1875.