Baird, Matthew – Baker, David V
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.
Baird, Spencer Fullerton
naturalist, was born Feb. 3, 1823, in Reading, Pa. He was a naturalist of prominence, who was from 1878 the secretary of the Smithsonian Institution. He was the translator and editor of the Iconographic Encyclopedia; co-author with J. Cassin of Birds of North America and Mammals of North America; editor Annual Record of Science and Industry from 1872-78. A History of North American Birds, written in collaboration with T. M. Brewer and R. Ridgway, is one of his most valuable works. He died Aug. 19, 1887, in Wood's Holl, Mass.
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, Albert C
lawyer, legislator, jurist, was born Feb. 15, 1825, in Girard, Ala. He received his education in the East Alabama Male college of Auburn, and has attained eminence as an astute lawyer and jurist.
He has been city attorney for Phenix, Ariz.; district attorney of his county; and assistant United States torney for Arizona.
He was a member of the eleventh legmember of the board of directors of the Territorial Normal school; and has filled with distinction the high office of chief justice of Arizona.
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, Andrew J
merchant, lawyer, legislator, was born Sept. 4, 1.842, in Mississippi. He attended the University of Mississippi, and served during the civil war in the confederate army, and was twice a member of the Mississippi state legislature. He is a successful merchant and lawyer of San Angelo, Texas; has served with distinction as a member of the Texas state legislature; and for four years was commissioner of the general land office of Texas.
Baker, Benjamin Franklin
musician, was born July 10, 1811, in Wenham, Mass. From 1842 to 1848 he was superintendent of musical instruction in the grammar schools of Boston, Mass., and met 8,000 pupils a week. He introduced music into the public schools of Lowell and Lawrence; became editor of the Boston Musical Journal; and, from its foundation in 1857, was principal of the Boston music school.
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.
Baker, Benjamin W
soldier, minister, college president, was born Nov. 25, 1841, in Coles county, Ill. He has attained prominence as an eloquent methodist minister and as president of Chaddock college, Quincy, Ill. He served as a soldier for three years in the civil war.
Baker, Bernard N
businessman, was born May 11, 1854, in Baltimore, Md.
He is president of the firm of Baker, Whiteley & Co.; and is also the president of the Baltimore Storage and Lighterage company, which has a capital of $1,500,000 and which owns and controls the Atlantic Transport line. was
Baker, Caleb
congressman, atborn in Providence, R. I. He served four years in the New York assembly; was a representative in congress from that state from 1819 to 1821, islative assembly of Arizona, and was chairman of the judiciary committee in that body. He has been a member of the board of curators, territorial library; a mer-
Baker, Charles Joseph
chant, manufacturer, was born May 28, 1821, in Baltimore, Md. It was through his efforts that the Union railroad and tunnel were constructed; and, having bought control of The Baltimore Gazette, he was enabled to advance reform movements. He died Sept. 23, 1894, in Baltimore, Md.
Baker, Charles Simeon
soldier, educator, lawyer, congressman, was born Feb. 18, 1839, in Churchville, N. Y. He received an academic education; was a teacher in 1856-'57; studied law, was admitted to the bar in December, 1860, and has since practiced the profession, except during the first year of the war, when he served as first lieutenant of Company E, Twenty-seventh New York volunteers, being disabled at the first battle of Bull Run. He was a member of the board of supervisors of Monroe county three years; was a member of the Rochester board of education two years, and president thereof the second year. He was a member of the New York state assembly from the Rochester district in 1879, 1880, 1882; was a member of the state senate of New York from the twenty-ninth district in 1884-'85; and was elected to the forty-ninth, fiftieth and fifty-first congresses as a republican.
Baker, Conrad
statesman. He was governor of Indiana from 1867 to 1869.
Baker, Daniel
soldier, was born about 1775. He was brevetted major for gallantry in the disastrous affair at Brownstown, Mich., known as Van Horne's defeat. After the war of 1812 he was promoted lieutenant-colonel of the sixth infantry, and commanded that regiment at the battle of the Bad Axe river, in the Black Hawk war, in 1832. He died Oct. 10, 1836, in Detroit, Mich.
Baker, Daniel
clergyman, author, was born Aug. 17, 1791, in Midway, Ga.
He gained such a reputation as an effective preacher that his services were in demand as a revivalist. After 1830 he continued as an evangelist, traveling in the south, and at last settled in Austin, Texas, where he founded a college and became its first president. Among his published works are A Scriptural View of Baptism; An Affectionate Address to Mothers, and one to Fathers; Baptism in a Nutshell; and Revival Sermons. His memoirs, prepared by his son, were published in Philadelphia in 1859. He died Dec. 10, 1857, in Austin, Texas.
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.
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-decamp, 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.