Bibliography: Herringshaw, Thomas William. Herringshaw's Encyclopedia of
American Biography of the Nineteenth
Century, Chicago, IL:American Publishers' Association,
1902.
page 68
BAKER, DAVID JEWETT, lawyer, jurist, congressman, was
born Sept. 7, 1792, in East Haddam, Conn. He had an
extensive practice, and was probate judge of Randolph county,
Ill. He was a senator in congress from 1830 to 1831, carrying
through congress the important measure of selling the public
lands to actual settlers in parcels of forty acres; and was
United States attorney for Illinois from 1833 to 1841. He opposed
the introduction of slavery into Illinois in 1823 with such energy
that his opponents tried to kill him. He died Aug. 6, 1869, in
Alton, Ill.
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