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				STEPHEN MATHEWS BAYARD, M.D.
				MRS. CATHARINE (COREY) BAYARD

	James Bayard, the great-grandfather of the above-named gentleman, emigrate at an early 
day from Scotland to America, and died in Massachusetts in 1817.  His wife, Martha Bayard, died 
in 1825.  Their home had been for many years at Great Barrington, Mass., where both ended their 
days.  Their sons were three in number,--James, Ezekiel, and Aaron.  Lyman Bayard, the son of 
Ezekiel and father of the subject of this article, was born in Washington, Mass., March 29, 1794,
and died at Salt Lake City, Utah Territory, Sept. 1, 1850, while on his way to California.  His 
wife, Rebecca Laura Mathews, was born at Watertown, Litchfield Co., Conn., June 5, 1795, and was 
descended from William and Jane Mathews, who emigrated from Wales to Connecticut in 1671.  Their 
son, Thomas Mathews, was born in Watertown, Conn., in 1699, and died in 1798.  His son, Stephen 
M., whose birth occurred in 1724, also in Connecticut, died in 1821.  Thomas Mathews served in 
the French-and-Indian war, and Stephen in the Revolution.
	Daniel M., son of Stephen, was born Jan. 7, 1767, and married Lucy Foot, of Connecticut.
	Dr. Bayard is descended from a race of pioneers.  His father was a merchant.  The son at 
the age of twenty-one years began the study of medicine in Detroit, Mich., and in 1850 went to 
California, where he gained his first start in life.  He was then thirty years of age, having 
been born Oct. 1, 1820, in the town of Harpersfield, Delaware Co., N. Y.  At the age of 
thirty-three he began the practice of medicine in Ionia County, which he has continued to the 
present, and is now actively at work in his chosen field.  In 1844 he was married to Catharine 
Amelia Corey, of Lansing.  He is one of a family of physicians, four of five brothers having 
chosen the medical profession as a field of labor,--viz., A. L. Bayard, Daniel E. Bayard, Henry 
B. Bayard, and Stephen M. Bayard.  The third mentioned is now deceased.  Dr. Stephen M. Bayard, 
although sixty years of age, is in full possession of his mental faculties, and has the bodily 
vigor of a man much younger.



This biography is taken from "HISTORY OF IONIA AND MONTCALM COUNTIES, MICHIGAN" 
by John S. Schenck. Philadelphia:  D. W. Ensign & Co., 1881. Page 168.