Brief Life History of William
When William Baird was born on 3 November 1849, in Rutherglen, Lanarkshire, Scotland, United Kingdom, his father, John Baird, was 22 and his mother, Elizabeth Marshall, was 23. He married Janet Lennox Murdoch on 5 February 1880, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 7 sons and 3 daughters. He lived in Blaine, Idaho, United States in 1900 and Long Beach, Los Angeles, California, United States in 1930. He died on 27 June 1946, in Carey, Blaine, Idaho, United States, at the age of 96, and was buried in Carey Cemetery, Blaine, Idaho, United States.
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- William Baird in household of John Baird, "Scotland Census, 1851"
- William Baird, "Utah, County Marriages, 1887-1937"
- William Baird, "Oregon, Oregon State Archives, Death Records, 1864-1967"
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1850
Historical Boundaries: 1850: Los Angeles, California, United States
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
1875 · A Treaty with Hawaii
In the Mid 1870s, The United States sought out the Kingdom of Hawaii to make a free trade agreement. The Treaty gave the Hawaiians access to the United States agricultural markets and it gave the United States a part of land which later became Pearl Harbor.
Name Meaning
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.
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