Herkimer County NyArchives Biographies.....Baird, John November 1852 - 
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Author: Hardin & Willard

Baird, John, Norway, was born in Dumfriesshire, Scotland, November, 1852.  He 
is the fourth of six children born to John and Elizabeth (McCulloch) Baird, of 
Scotland, where they lived and died.  Elizabeth Baird died in 1855, and Mr. 
Baird married Mary Gordon, by whom he had ten children.  He was a successful 
dairyman.  He died in 1886.  In 1871 John and his brother James came to 
America.  James spent the most of his life, after coming here, in Otsego 
county, as a cheese-maker and school teacher.  He died in 1876.  John was 
reared on a farm and educated in the common parish schools of Scotland.  He 
has followed cheese-making since he came to America.  For the last ten years 
he has been engaged in the White Creek Cheese Factory of Norway.  In 1881 he 
married Ella Fox and they have had three daughters:  Grace N., Ella F., and 
Mildred E.  Mr. Baird is a Republican and a member of Newport Lodge, No. 451, 
F. and A.M.  Mrs. Baird is a daughter of Abraham and Sarah (Elwood) Fox of 
Stark.  Mr. Fox is of German descent and his wife is of English descent.  They 
reared eight children and both died in Stark, N.Y.

Additional Comments:
source:
History of Herkimer County, New York : illustrated with portraits of many of 
its citizens
edited by George A. Hardin ; assisted by Frank H. Willard
Syracuse, New York : D. Mason, 1893
550 p., 276 p. : ill., maps, ports.


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