David Van Cleve Baker was born on 30. May. 1839 at Dayton, Montgomery County, Ohio. He was the son of
David Clark Baker and
Sarah Sophie Van Cleve. David Van Cleve Baker married
Jane Campbell Hawkins on 17. Jul. 1859. David Van Cleve Baker married
Ida Louise Shank on 24. Aug. 1892.
David Van Cleve Baker and
Ida Louise Shank appeared on the census of 16. Jun. 1900 at Portland, Jay County, Indiana; 2 children, 2 lviing. David Van Cleve Baker died on 11. Feb. 1909 at Portland, Jay County, Indiana, at age 69. Herringshaw's Encyclopedia of American Biography of the Nineteenth Century.
Herringshaw's Encyclopedia of American Biography
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.
David Van Cleve baker was born May 30, 1829 in Dayton, Ohio when he was 4 months old His mother Sarah Sophia Van Cleve died. David's father David Clark Baker remarried when he was 8 months old to Sophia Sourbray of Dayton, Ohio. His Father David Clark Baker was an attorney, accountant and Clerk of the court of Jay county, Indiana 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.
David's maternal grandfather was one of the founding fathers of Dayton, Ohio. This is his Biography
Benjamin Van Cleve (1773 – 1821)
Benjamin Van Cleve came to Dayton from Cincinnati as a young man to be its first school teacher. Van Cleve School is named after him. For two years he kept a diary of things he observed in the early settling of Dayton. This is the only written record of its kind we have. He loved books and learning, hence he wrote the textbooks used to open the first Dayton school in 1799. It was held over several months, the schoolmaster reserving time to gather his corn and time to go to Cincinnati to meet with the House of Representatives of the territorial legislature. It was open from 9 until noon, then from 2 to 6 p.m. Parents were to pay $2 per month for each pupil. In summers he farmed, in winters he taught school. For many years after, Dayton was never without a school. In 1803 he was appointed as Dayton’s postmaster. He also helped establish the Dayton Public Library.
His paternal grandfather was Aaron Baker this is is biography:
He was baptized June 20, 1773 in New Providence, Essex County, New Jersey."The History of the City of Dayton" by Rev. A. W. Drury states that Aaron Baker made a visit to Dayton in 1794. In 1805, he did the brickwork on McCullum's Tavern and in 1806 he did the brickwork on the court house. In 1807, he located in Dayton. He was the first Methodist class-leader in Dayton and was connected with temperance and other reform societies. He was county coroner from 1814 to 1817, and one of the county commissioners from 1825 to 1830 and from 1832 to 1834. He served as a justice of the peace, and in 1818 was president of the select council.