1828–1887

Introduction

Born: Au­gust 28, 1828, Prince­ton, New Jer­sey.

Died: Feb­ru­ary 11, 1887, Rye, New York.

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Biography

Charles was the son of evan­gel­ic­al Pres­by­ter­ian his­to­ri­an Ro­bert Baird, mas­ter of the La­tin school in Prince­ton.

He went to Eur­ope in 1835 with his fa­ther, when the eld­er Baird went to rep­re­sent the For­eign Ev­an­ge­li­cal So­ci­ety, whose mis­sion was to sup­port the Pro­test­ant cause in the Ca­tho­lic coun­tries of Eur­ope.

Charles re­turned to Am­eri­ca for his for­mal edu­ca­tion, at­ten­ding the Uni­ver­si­ty of the Ci­ty of New York, and Un­ion Theo­lo­gic­al Sem­in­ary, New York Ci­ty, in 1852.

From 1852–54, he was chap­lain to the Am­eri­can Em­bas­sy in Rome. In 1854–55, he was agent of the Am­eri­can and For­eign Chris­tian Un­ion in New York.

Baird spent the year of 1855, at just 27 years of age, writ­ing Eu­tax­ia, which was ini­tial­ly pub­lished ano­ny­mous­ly (though evi­dent­ly most re­view­ers were aware of the book’s au­thor).

Baird’s first pas­tor­ate was at the Re­formed (Dutch) Church on Ber­gen Hill, Brook­lyn, 1859–61. In 1861, he moved to the Pres­by­ter­ian Church in Rye, New York, re­main­ing there the rest of his life.

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