Bibliography: Herringshaw, Thomas William. Herringshaw's Encyclopedia of American Biography of the Nineteenth Century, Chicago, IL:American Publishers' Association, 1902. p. 69 BAKER, HENRY G., lawyer, jurist, was born Sept. 22, 1857, in Cleveland, Ohio. At the age of twenty-one he was elected justice of the peace and ten years later was elected probate judge of Defiance county, Ohio. He was appointed by the governor as commissioner to the Columbian exposition for Ohio.