Bibliography: Herringshaw, Thomas William. Herringshaw's Encyclopedia of American Biography of the Nineteenth Century, Chicago, IL:American Publishers' Association, 1902. page 68 BAKER, DAVID V., lawyer, was born May 30, 1839, in Dayton, Ohio. He received the rudiments of his education in the common schools, and attended three sessions at Liber college, Indiana. In 1861 he received a commission as an aid-de-camp, with the rank of colonel, to the governor when less than twenty-two years of age. Mr. Baker was postmaster under President Lincoln; was elected city attorney; town councilman; town clerk; four years a mail contractor; five years in charge of clerkship of the Jay circuit court; and in 1880 was a candidate for the legislature, and carried Adams and Jay counties by 4,000 majority.