
Born: March 16, 1820, Fayette County, Pennsylvania.
Died: June 15, 1884, Park Avenue Hotel, Manhattan, New York.
Buried: Mount Olivet Cemetery, Nashville, Tennessee.

Baird, a Cumberland Presbyterian minister, was the son of Alexander Baird, and husband of Nellie Hibbets Britton.
He was educated at the Greene Academy, Carmichaels, Pennsylvania, where he later became Assistant Principal.