Bibliography: Herringshaw, Thomas William. Herringshaw's Encyclopedia of American Biography of the Nineteenth Century, Chicago, IL:American Publishers' Association, 1902. p. 69 BAKER, HENRY BROOKS, physician, was born Dec. 29, 1837, in Brattlesborough, Vt. He has devoted much time to studies relative to the causation of diphtheria, typhoid fever, cholera, and pneumonia. The results thus far obtained have appeared in the Transactions of the American Public Health Association; and Transactions of the American Climatological Association, 1886.