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Baird, John Faris

educator, clergyman, was born Dec. 5, 1851, in Charlestown, Ind. In 1880 he was elected professor of ethics and christian evidence in Hanover College, which he held until 1890, when he accepted a pastorate of the presbyterian church of Seymour, Ind.

Baird, Matthew

locomotive builder, was born in 1817, in Londonderry, Ireland. He became connected with the Baldwin Locomotive works as a partner in M. W. Baldwin & Co. He made noteworthy experiments in the economical burning of soft coal in railroad engines and adopted the deflector plate or brick arch, now in general use. He died May 19, 1877, in Philadelphia, Pa. was

Baird, Robert

clergyman, author, was born Oct. 6, 1798, in Fayette county, Pa. He was a presbyterian clergyman, active in the cause of temperance and in promoting the extension of protestantism in Europe. He was the author of History of the Temperance Societies; View of Religion in America; History of the Waldenses, Albigenses, and Vaudois; and Protestantism in Italy. He died March 15, 1863, in Yonkers. N. Y.

Baird, Samuel John

clergyman, author, was born in 1817, in Newark, Ohio. He is a presbyterian clergyman whose writings are chiefly concerned with the polity and history of the presbyterian church. He is the author of The Church of Christ: its Constitution and Order; History of the Early Polity of the Presbyterian Church in the Training of Ministers; The Socinian Apostasy of the English Presbyterian Church; and History of the New School.

Baird, Samuel T

lawyer, congressman, was born May 5, 1861, in Oak Ridge, La. He was educated at home and at Vincennes, Ind.; began the study of law in 1879, and was admitted to the bar in 1882, and was elected district attorney of the sixth judicial district in 1884. He served four years upon the bench, and was elected to the fifty-fifth congress as a democrat.

Baker, Abijah Richardson

clergyman, author, was born Aug. 30, 1805, in Franklin, Mass. He was a congregational clergyman of Lynn, Mass., and the au-- thor of School History of the United States; The Catechism Tested by the Bible; and Topics in Christ's Sermon on the Mount. He died in 1876.

Baker, Alfred

banker, was born Feb. 8, 1811, in Warren County, Ga. In 1870 he organized and became president of the National Exchange Bank of Augusta; and in 1875 he established the Augusta Savings bank, and became its president. As wholesale merchant, manufacturer, and banker he has been one of the leading business men of his section. a

Baker, Alpheus

soldier, lawyer, was born May 23, 1825, in South Carolina.

He joined the confederate army in 1861, and was rapidly promoted for gallant and meritorious services, to the rank of brigadier-general. At the close of the war he engaged in the practice of law in Louisville, Ky. He died Oct. 2, 1891, in Louisville, Ky.

Baker, Benjamin M

lawyer, legislator, jurist, was born Jan. 20, 1850, in Girard, Ala. After receiving his education he entered into the active practice of law. He was the first state superintendent of public education of Texas; and was a member of the fifteenth, sixteenth and seventeenth state legislatures of Texas. He has served as judge of the thirty-first judicial district of his adopted state, and his decisions have shown him to possess rare judicial abilities.

Baker, Benjamin T

journalist, was born Aug. 3, 1866; is the editor and owner of The Journal of Smith Center, Kan. He is prominent in the affairs of his county and state, and a member of the populist congressional, judicial and county committees.