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promoted to lieutenant-colonel; became a brigadier-general. He

was the author

of

General Miles' Indian

in New York City. Baird, George W., civil engineer, naval officer, inventor, author, was born April 22, 1843, in Washington, D.C. He entered the

Campaign. He died in 1906

United States 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, author, was born Sept. 10, 1825, in Bridesburg, Pa. He is a publisher of industrial books at Philadelphia. Pa.; 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

Home Labour and Home Production Necessary to the Protection of the American Farmer; and Miscellaneuos Papers on Economic Questions. Baird, Henry MartsTi, educator, author, was born Jan. 17, 1832, in Philadelphia, Pa. He was a professor of Greek at the university of New York from 1859 and an historian who was conscientious thorough and impartial. He was 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; The Huguenots and the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes; and Biography of Theodore Beza. He died Nov. of



11, 1906, in

Baird,

Yonkers, N.Y.

Henry Samuel, lawyer, statesman,

was born May 16, 1800, in Dublin, Ireland. In 1832 he served as quartermaster-general in the Black Hawk war; in 1836 was elected a member and chosen president of the first legislative council of the territory of Wisconsin. In the same year he was appointed the first attorney-general of the territory; and subsequently in that year was secretary of Governor Henry Dodge, United States commissioner to negotiate the treaty with the Menomenee Indians at Cedar Rapids, when about four million acres were ceded to the United States government. He died April 28, 1875, in Green Bay, Wis. 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 filled the office of district attorney; has been judge-advocate-general of Wyoming with rank of colonel; and became United States district attorney for Honolulu. He died Nov. 7, 1901, in Denver, Col. Baird, Matthew, locomotive builder, was born in 1817 in Ireland. He became connect-

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ed with the Baldwin locomotive works as a partner in M. W. Baldwin and company. 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. Baird, Robert, clergyman, author, was born Oct. 6, 1798, in Fayette county, Pa. He was a, presbytcrian clergyman; and 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 Protestanism in Italy. He died March 15, 1863, in Yonkers, N.Y. Baird, Samuel John, clergyman, author, was born in 1817 in Newark Ohio. He was a presbytcrian clergyman; and his writings are chiefly concerned with the polity and history of the presbytcrian church. He was 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. He died April 10, 1893 in Clinton Forge, Va. Baird, Samuel T., lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born May 5, 1861, in Oak Ridge, La. He was elected district attorney of the sixth judicial district in 1884. He served four years upon the bench. In 1897-99 he was a representative from Indiana to the fiftyfifth congress as a democrat. He died April 22, 1899, in Washington, D.C. Baird, Spencer Fullerton, naturalist, was born Feb. 3, 1823, in Reading, Pa. He was a naturalist of prominence and from 1878 secretary of the Smithsonian institute. He was United States fish commissioner. 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; and editor Annual Record of Science and Industry in 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 HoU, Mass. Baird, Thomas James, soldier, was born April 30, 1794, in Ireland. He served in the war against Great Britain; and resigned as captain of artillery in 1828. He died April 5, 1842 in Pottsville, Pa. Baker, Abijah Richardson, clergyman, au, thor, was born Aug. 30, 1805, in Franklin, Mass. In 1836 he was pastor of a congregational church at Medford, Mass.; and in 1849 assumed a pastorate in Lynn. He was the author 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, in Lynn, Mass. Baker, Albert Rufus, physician, author, was bom March 24, 1858, in Salem, Pa. Since 1884 he has practised his profession in Cleveland, Ohio; and limits his practice to the