Sedgwick County KS Archives Biographies.....Baird, Sidney E. 1865 - 
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Author: O. H. Bentley

   Sidney E. Baird, superintendent of Highland Cemetery, Wichita, Kan., is a
native of Ohio, having been born at Perry, that state, on October 1, 1865. His
parents were Robert H. and Isabelle (Lyons) Baird, natives of Ohio, who moved to
Kansas in 1885, locating in Grant township, Sedgwick county, and there resided
until 1887, when they moved to Wichita. Robert H. Baird died September 15, 1907,
at the age of eighty-one. His widow survives and is now living at Pawnee, Okla.,
with her daughter, Mary H., who has been a teacher in the Indian school at that
place for ten years. Sidney E. Baird was then second child of a family of three,
the others being Calvin L. Baird, of Bentley, Sedgwick county, and Mary H.
Baird, of Oklahoma. Mr. Baird was educated in the public schools and at Madison
Academy, Mount Perry, Ohio, and afterward taught in the schools of Sedgwick
county from 1884 to 1896. His first year at teaching was in Ohio. In 1896 Mr.
Baird took up cemetery work under Willis L. Taylor, now superintendent of Maple
Grove Cemetery. When the division of the cemetery was made and the Wichita
Cemetery was reorganized and changed to Highland Cemetery, Mr. Baird was chosen
as its superintendent. This was in 1908. The first organization of the Wichita
Cemetery was in 1870, and the two now known as Highland and Maple Grove
Cemeteries were under one corporation or management from 1899 to 1908, when the
division was made. Mr. Baird was married in 1889 to Miss Lorah E. Wright,
daughter of Samuel and Permelia Wright, of Indiana. Of this union five children
have been born, viz.: Elsworth E., Amzie P., Lorain E., Russell M. and Katherine E.

Additional Comments:
Extracted from 

History of Wichita and Sedgwick County: past and present, including an account
of the cities, towns and villages of the county

Editor in chief: O. H. Bentley
Chicago: C.F. Cooper & Co. (1910)


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