BIO: Joseph Baird, Wyoming Conference, Methodist Episcopal Church, PA & NY

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Chaffee, Amasa Franklin. History of the Wyoming 
Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church. 
New York: Eaton & Mains, 1904, page 276.
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  Baird, Joseph, was born in 1854 in the county of Monaghan, Ireland. 
His ancestors on both sides were Scotch, and members of the Church of 
England in Ireland.
  His early education was in the national schools, and the schools of 
"The Church Education Society," and his classical knowledge was 
received from private tutors until he entered the Wesleyan Normal 
Institution of Dublin.
  He was converted in his seventeenth year and united with the 
Methodist Church, becoming a local preacher the following year.
  He came to American in 1873, and took work as supply in the Northern 
New York Conference, joining that Conference in 1874. In 1884 he 
transferred to New York East Conference, and was stationed at 
Worcester, N.Y., on the Oneonta District, where he is now working.