Bibliography: Herringshaw, Thomas William. Herringshaw's Encyclopedia of American Biography of the Nineteenth Century, Chicago, IL:American Publishers' Association, 1902. page 68 BAKER, DANIEL, soldier, was born about 1775. He was brevetted major for gallantry in the disastrous affair at Brownstown, Mich., known as Van Horne's defeat. After the war of 1812 he was promoted lieutenant-colonel of the sixth infantry, and commanded that regiment at the battle of the Bad Axe river, in the Black Hawk war, in 1832. He died Oct. 10, 1836, in Detroit, Mich.