When William Eccles Baird was born on 8 June 1879, in Eden, Weber, Utah, United States, his father, Robert Marshall Baird, was 33 and his mother, Sarah Hutchinson Eccles, was 24. He married Ivah Vivian Keyser on 13 December 1899, in Salt Lake Temple, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. He lived in Long Beach, Los Angeles, California, United States in 1930 and Alisal Judicial Township, Monterey, California, United States for about 5 years. He registered for military service in 1917. In 1900, at the age of 20, his occupation is listed as brakeman for the railroad in baker, oregon in Baker, Lane, Oregon, United States. He died on 26 November 1958, in Salinas, Monterey, California, United States, at the age of 79, and was buried in Salinas, Monterey, California, United States.
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Garfield was shot twice by Charles J. Guitea at Railroad Station in Washington, D.C. on July 2, 1881. After eleven weeks of intensive and other care Garfield died in Elberon, New Jersey, the second of four presidents to be assassinated, following Abraham Lincoln.
On May 17, 1884, the Logan temple was dedicated by John Taylor. It was the only temple dedicated by him and was the second temple in Utah. The temple went under a major reconstruction project in 1976 to increase the capacity of the rooms inside and was rededicated in 1979 by Spencer W. Kimball.
This Act set a price at which gold could be traded for paper money.
Scottish:
from a common pronunciation of Bard in Scotland.
occupational name from Gaelic bàrd ‘bard, poet, minstrel’, or of Gaelic Mac an Baird ‘son of the bard’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
Possible Related NamesWhen W. E. Baird, a representative of the Utah-Idaho investment company, went to the office at 212 South Main street shortly after 1:30 o'clock yesterday afternoon, he discovered a man rifling the off …
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