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.

Isaiah Thornton Williams, who recently died at Chappaqua, was one of the leading lawyers at the Westchester County bar dui'ing the past twenty years. He was born at New Ipswich, N. H., on February 12, 1819. He came of an old New England family on his father's side, being able to trace his paternal ancestry to one of the Pilgrims who came over in the " Mayflower ; " while on his mother's side, he came of a Southern family. His uncle on that side, Judge Tenney, of the Supreme Court of Louisiana, not only distinguished himself in the field of jurisprudence, but also gained a less enviable fame on the field of honor, being killed in a duel, Sergeant S. Prentiss acting as his second. Mr. Williams was educated at the Academy of Exeter, N. H. While there he made the acquaintance of Ralph Waldo Emerson, and was invited by him to spend a part of the vacation at his home in Concord. This acquaintance ripened into a friendship, which lasted unabated until the death of Mr. Emerson. Through Mr. Emerson, Mr. Williams made the acquaintance and acquired the friendship of A. Bronson Alcottand Henry D. Thoreau.