Bibliography: Herringshaw, Thomas William. Herringshaw's Encyclopedia of American Biography of the Nineteenth Century, Chicago, IL:American Publishers' Association, 1902. page 70 BAKER, OSMOND CLEANDER, clergyman, was born July 30, 1812, in Marlow, N.H. He was a professor in the General Biblical institute of Concord, N.H., and in 1847 was president of the same; bishop of the methodist episcopal church in 1852- 71, and wrote A Guide Book in the Administration of Discipline of the Methodist Episcopal Church. He died Dec. 20, 1871, in Concord, N.H.