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Bainbridge, Henry – Baird, John C

Bainbridge, Henry

soldier, was born in 1803, in New York. He served in the Florida war, in the military occиpation of Texas, and in the war with Mexico. In 1849-50 he served in the Seminole war.

He was promoted to a lieutenant-colonelcy in 1851. He died May 31, 1857, near Galveston.

Bainbridge, William

naval officer, was born in 1774 in New Jersey. He was the captain of a merchant vessel at the age of nineteen and entered the naval service in 1798. He was distinguished during the war of 1812, and died in 1833.

Baird, Andrew D

soldier, merchant, was born Oct. 14, 1839, in Scotland. He served entirely through the war, taking part in forty-five battles and being wounded three times, and commanded the regiment after May, 1864. The stone yards of Gill and Baird of New York City are among the foremost in the United States.

Baird, Chambers

lawyer, poet, is a popular lawyer of Ripley, Ohio, and the author of several meritorious poems.

BAIRD, CHARLES WASHINGTON, clergyman, author, was born Aug. 28, 1828, in Princeton, N. J., and was a son of R. Baird. He was a presbyterian minister of Rye, N. Y., and the author of Eutaxia, or the Presbyterian Liturgies; Book of Public Prayer; History of Rye; and History of the Huguenot Emigration to America. He died Feb. 10, 1887, in Rye, N. Y.

Baird, George W

naval engineer, inventor, author, was born April 22, 1843, in Washington, D. C. He entered the navy as assistant engineer and served during the civil war. He is the inventor of a distiller for making fresh water from sea water, an evaporator, a pneumatic steering machine, and numerous other inventions. He is the author of The Absorption of Gases by Water; The Flight of Flying Fish; Science; and other works.

Baird, Henry Carey

political economist and author, was born Sept. 10, 1825, in Bridesburg, Pa. He is a publisher of industrial books at Philadelphia, and an active member of the American Philosophical society, before which he has read many learned papers. He is the author of Rights of American Producers and Wrongs of British Free Trade Revenue Reformers; Protection of Home Labour and Home Production Necessary to the Protection of the American Farmer; and Miscellaneous Papers on Economic Questions.

Baird, Henry Martyn

educator, author, was born Jan. 17, 1832, in Philadelphia, Pa. He is a professor of Greek at the University of New York from 1859, and an historian who is conscientious but not absolutely impartial. He is the author of Life of Robert Baird; Modern Greece; Narrative of a Residence and Travels; History of the Rise of the Huguenots of France; The Huguenots and Henry of Navarre; and The Huguenots and the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes.

Baird, James Hadyn

journalist, was born Aug. 13, 1866, in West Lebanon, Tenn. In 1889 he became business manager of Southern Lumberman. In 1896 he was elected to the office of scrivenoter in the Concatenated Order of Hoo-Hoo, with headquarters at Nashville, Tenn.

He was also secretary of Forestry department in the Tennessee centennial at Nashville in 1897.

Baird, John C

lawyer, orator, jurist, was born Jan. 7, 1852, in Pittsburg, Pa. He received his education in the public schools of his native city, and has attained prominence as a lawyer of ability of Cheyenne, Wyo. He has filled the office of district attorney; and has been judge-advocate-general of Wyoming, with rank of colonel. He is prominent in Knights Templars and other orders, and well known as an eloquent western orator..