Thomas H. Baird and Maria L. King

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Husband Thomas H. Baird ^{1 2}

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           Born: 17 Dec 1824 - Washington, Washington Co, PA 3
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         Father: Hon. Thomas Harlan Baird (1787-1866) 2 4
         Mother: Nancy McCullough (      -Bef 1882) 5 6

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       Marriage: 1849 3

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Wife Maria L. King ³

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         Father: Dr. Samuel M. King (1794-1877/1882) 7 8 9
         Mother: Maria Black (1800-1889) 9 10 11

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Children

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1 M Frank E. Baird ³

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2 F Maria Louise Baird ³

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         Spouse: A. G. Mitchell (      -      ) 3

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General Notes: Husband - Thomas H. Baird

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He received his edu-cation at the common schools of the borough where he was born, and at Washington College, from which he graduated at the early age of seventeen years; and, having decided on following the legal profession, com-menced the study of law in his father's office in Washington. In February, 1846, he was admitted to the bar of Washington County, and at once com-menced practice in partnership with his father, continuing (with the exception of a period here-after referred to) until 1872, when he was elected district attorney, on the Democratic ticket in a Republican county, his opponent being John Aiken. During his term of service he was in-strumental in securing the conviction of Briceland, for the murder, by shooting, of John Allenham. Briceland was found guilty after a lengthened trial, convicted, and sentenced to imprisonment for life. In 1850, when T. McK. T. McKennan was appointed, by President Fillmore, Secretary of the Interior. Mr. Baird was given the part of as-sistant chief clerk of the Census Bureau, and was later honored by an appointment as clerk in the Department proper. Part of his duties were to prepare and file all papers relating to appoint-ments and removals of officers, and among them he found some demanding his own removal on political grounds. These he filed in the regular way, the Department yielded to the demand, and decided on his removal, and he wrote out his own dismissal and came home. One month afterward, however, he was recalled and promoted. Mr. Baird was ten years, in all, occupied in Government positions at Washington, D. C., and then re-turned to Pennsylvania. For some three years thereafter he was practicing his profession in Pitts-burgh, after which he was engaged a time in the coal business on the Monongahela river. In 1869 he opened a law office in Monongahela City. He was a member of the Royal Ar-canum, and in church connection was a Presbyterian. In 1886 he was nominated by his party for Con-gress, but the county proved too strongly Repub-lican for him on that ticket, and he was defeated. He was a great reader, and in his profession kept himself up to the times, having one of the finest and most complete law libraries in the county. [CBRWC, 154]

1 Boyd Crumrine, History of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: L. H. Everts & Co., 1882), Pg 245.

2 Editor, Commemorative Biographical Record of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1893), Pg 152.

3 Editor, Commemorative Biographical Record of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1893), Pg 154.

4 Boyd Crumrine, History of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: L. H. Everts & Co., 1882), Pg 542.

5 Boyd Crumrine, History of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: L. H. Everts & Co., 1882), Pg 480, 542.

6 Editor, Commemorative Biographical Record of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1893), Pg 153.

7 Editor, Commemorative Biographical Record of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1893), Pg 154, 1145.

8 John S. Van Voorhis, The Old and New Monongahela (Pittsburgh, PA: Nicholson, Printer and Binder, 1893), Pg 152.

9 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Western Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1915), Pg 66.

10 Editor, Commemorative Biographical Record of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1893), Pg 1145.

11 John S. Van Voorhis, The Old and New Monongahela (Pittsburgh, PA: Nicholson, Printer and Binder, 1893), Pg 151.