Bibliography: Herringshaw, Thomas William. Herringshaw's Encyclopedia of American Biography of the Nineteenth Century, Chicago, IL:American Publishers' Association, 1902. page 71 BAKER, WILLIAM MUMFORD, clergyman, author, was born June 27, 1825, in Washington, D. C. He was a popular novelist who was a presbyterian clergyman in the southwest until 1870, and afterwards the pastor of a church in Boston. He was a vigorous writer of considerable originality, whose earlier works possess historic interest as pictures of a now past stage of civilization in the southern states. He was the author of Inside a Chronicle of Secession; The Virginians in Texas; Oak Mot; The New Timothy; Mose Evans; His Majesty Myself; Blessed St. Certainty; Thirlmore; Carter Quarterman; A Year Worth Living; Colonel Dunwoddie: Millionaire; The Making of a Man; The Ten Theophanies: the Manifestations of Christ before His Birth in Bethlehem; and John Westacott, a juvenile tale. He died Aug. 20, 1883, in South Boston, Mass.