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BAIRD.BAIRD. at Jonesboro and Resaca in the Atlanta campaign and after various services, in the capacity of in spector-general. he was by the action of the law retired Sept. 22, 1885. BAIRD, Charles Washington, clergyman, was born at Princeton, N. J., Aug. 28, 1828; son of Robert and Fermine Ophelia A. (Du Buisson) Baird. His father was a missionary and temperance orator. He was graduated from the University of New York in 1848. as class poet, and took a three years' course of study at the Union theological seminary, New York. After his graduation in 1852 he was ordained as minister in the Presbyterian church, 1853. and made chaplain of the American chapel in Rome, Italy, which office he retained until 1854, and in 1859 became pastor of the Bergen Hill Reformed Dutch church in Brooklyn, N. Y., going from there to Rye. N. Y., in 1861, where, until his death, he was pastor of the Presbyterian church. The University of the city of New York conferred upon him the degree of A. M. in 1860, and that of D. D. in 1876. He was a member of the American historical association, of the New York. Rhode Island, Westchester and Virginia historical societies, the Huguenot society of America and the Huguenot society of London. He is the author of "Eutaxia, or the Presbyterian Liturgies" (1855); "A Chapter of Liturgies" (1856); "A Book of Public Prayer" (1857); "Chronicle of a Border Town. History of Rye, Westchester Co., New York, from 1860 to 1870" (1871); " History of Bedford Church" (1882); "History of the Huguenot Emigration to America" (2 vols., 1885); "The Scholar's Duty and Opportunity," an oration (1886), and several translations, addresses and magazine articles. He died at Rye, N. Y., Feb. 10, 1887. BAIRD, Henry Carey, economist, was born at the United States arsenal, Bridesburg, Philadelphia, Pa., Sept. 10, 1825; son of Thomas J. Baird, an officer in the U. S. army. Both his maternal and paternal grandfathers came to America as political refugees from Ireland. His mother's father, Matthew Carey, was a pioneer publisher of Philadelphia, and friend of Benjamin Franklin. He attended school until his sixteenth year, when he entered the publishing house of Carey & Hart of Philadelphia, of which his uncle, Edward L. Carey, was the head, and after a four years' apprenticeship, he, in 1845, became a member of the firm, inheriting his uncle's interest upon his death. In 1849 he withdrew from the firm and established that of Henry Carey Baird & Co., and engaged in the publication of books on technical, industrial and economic subjects. During the financial crisis of 1857 he studied the writings of his uncle, Henry Charles Carey, on the tariff and currency questions, with the result that he adopted his views and devoted both time and money to their promulgation. He wrote and distributed, at his own expense, thousands of tracts and pamphlets, contributed numerous articles on economic subjects to various cyclopædias, and in 1876 discussed the currency question in the Atlantic Monthly with James A. Garfield. He was one of the founders and a leader of the Greenback party, leaving the Republican party on account of its financial policy. In 1876 his arguments before the ways and means committee of the house of representatives were largely instrumental in defeating a bill for the issue of five hundred million dollars, thirty-year four and a half per cent bonds, which had passed the senate by a vote of fifty-five ayes to five nays, a measure which would have been an enormous expense to the government. He died in Philadelphia. Pa., in 1901. BAIRD, Henry Martin, educator, was born in Philadelphia, Pa., Jan. 17, 1823; son of Robert and Fermine Ophelia Amaryllis (Du Buisson) Baird. In 1850 he was graduated at the University of the city of New York with valedictory honors. During 1851-'52 he studied at the University of Athens; from 1853 to 1855 he attended the Union theological seminary, N. Y.; from 1855 to 1859 he continued his theological studies at Princeton theological seminary, Princeton, N. J., at the same time acting as tutor in the College of New Jersey. In 1859 he was made professor of Greek language and literature at the University of the city of New York. In 1866 he was ordained a minister of the Presbyterian church, and in 1873 was elected corresponding secretary of the American and foreign Christian union, holding the office until 1884. He also served as first vice-president of the American society of church history; president of Yonkers historical society, and member of many prominent societies, both in America and in Europe. He received the degrees A. B., 1850, and A. M., 1854. from the University of the city of New York; Ph. D., 1867, from the College of New Jersey; D. D., 1877, from Rutgers college, and LL. D., 1882, from the College of New Jersey. His publications include: "Modern Greece" (1856); "Life of the Rev. Robert Baird, D. D." (1866); "History of the Rise of the Huguenots of France" (1879); "Bernard Palissy" (1882); "The Huguenots and Henry of Navarre" (1886), and monographs of great historical interest, among which may be noted: "The French Synods of the Desert" (1888); "Camisard Uprising of the French Protestants" (1889); "Diplomatic Services of Benjamin Franklin" (1890); "The Chambre Ardente, and French Protestantism under Henry II." (1891), and "Influence of the Protestant Reformation on Civil and Political Institutions" (1892).