Bibliography: Herringshaw, Thomas William. Herringshaw's Encyclopedia of American Biography of the Nineteenth Century, Chicago, IL:American Publishers' Association, 1902. p. 69 BAKER, GEORGE TITUS, civil engineer, legislator, was born Sept. 24, 1857, in Homestead, Iowa. He attended the Iowa state university in 1874-75, and he is a member of a large construction company of Davenport, Iowa. During 1896-97 he served with distinction as a representative in the Iowa state legislature.