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Author: Smith & De Land, publishers

    DR. ORVILLE D. LAIRD, born in Columbus, Ga., January 20, 1840, is a son of
Dr. Orville P. and Nancy (Dyer) Laird, natives of Oneida County. N. Y.

    Doctor Laird was reared in New York; received an academic education, and at
the age of nineteen years began life as a clerk. In April, 1861, he enlisted in
Company E, Seventh Ohio Regiment, with which command he served three months, and
then joined Company C, One Hundred and Sixteenth New York Infantry. In 1863 he
was promoted to the Quartermaster's Department at Nashville, and early in 1865
was commissioned lieutenant of light artillery. He was mustered out in July of
the latter year.

    In 1859 Mr. Laird was graduated as M. D. from Ann Arbor, and after the war
practiced in Tennessee, locating at Clinton in 1866. In November, 1869, he
engaged in the railroading and furnace business. In 1884 he was appointed United
States Commissioner for the District Court, Northern District of Alabama, and in
1886 came to Cross Plains.

    Dr. Laird was married October 25. 1865, to Mary C. Stevens, daughter of Rev.
R. M. and Nancy (King) Stevens, natives of Tennessee. They have had born to them
three children: Harvey. George Edgar, and James G. The Doctor and wife are
members of the Methodist Episcopal Church.

    Dr. Orville P. Laird, the father of the subject of this sketch, was a
practical dentist. He spent the winters in Georgia, and the summers in New York
up to 1857, after which he lived in Ohio and Michigan in order to be more
convenient to his business interests. He reared four children, and died at
Adrian, Mich., in 1886. The Laird family originally came from Scotland.


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Northern Alabama: Historical and Biographical
Birmingham, Ala.: Smith and De Land
1888

PART III.
HISTORICAL RESUME OF THE VARIOUS COUNTIES IN THE STATE.
MINERAL BELT.

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