moved to Western New York, and in the year 1853, he came to Tarrytown, New York ; and while engaged in teaching school he commenced the study of law with Elijah Yerks, Esq., a lawyer of that village. After a year or two he went into the office of J. Warren Tompkins, at White Plains, New York, and continued his studies until September 1, 1856, when he was duly admitted in the Supreme Court as an attorney and counsellor-at-law, and at once commenced to practice law in Tarrytown. There for a number of years he was engaged in some of the most important ejectment and partition actions ever tried in Westchester Co. He was an excellent equity lawyer. He died at Tarrytown, N. Y., October 9, 1884.

Edward P. Baird, formerly of Yonkers, for many years enjoyed the largest and most lucrative practice in that city. He was at one time counsel for the Mutual Life Insurance Company of New York, in reference to its Westchester business ; also counsel for the Yonkers' banks, and for many important estates. The people of that city intrusted him successively with the important offices of corporation counsel and city judge. He was a son of the eminent theologian, the late Rev. Dr. Robert Baird, of Yonkers, and a brother of the Rev. Dr. Henry M. Baird, still of that city. His life was spent in Yonkers from early childhood until 1882, when he removed to Minneapolis and settled there in the practice of his profession. He died there October 27, 1885, in the forty-ninth year of his age, leaving a widow and two children.