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from a 1905 biography by J M Guinn
BENJAMIN MORGAN BAIRD. The ranching interests of Fresno county are ably represented by Benjamin Morgan Baird, who is a man of progressive spirit and keeps abreast with all the developments made in agricultural affairs in his community. A son of the honored pioneer, Alfred Baird, he inherits from his father qualities of the greatest value in the upbuilding of character as well as in the accumulation of property; and through the possession of sterling personal attributes he has won the good will of his associates and the confidence of friends. While it has been his good fortune to reap the benefits of his father's financial acumen and large success, such are his traits of enterprise and thrift that probably unaided by others success would have rewarded his sagacious undertakings.
While the family were living in Iowa Benjamin Morgan Baird was born at Frankville, Winneshiek county, December 27, 1853. At the age of six years he came across the plains with his parents and settled in Visalia, where he had public school advantages, supplemented by study under Father Dade. His education was completed by attendance at the San Jose State Normal School and by graduation from the business college in San Jose. On his return home he took up the sheep business in partnership with his father, but some years later became connected with an independent business in sheep-raising in Tulare county. During his sojourn there he sowed the first alfalfa in the vicinity and set out a vineyard of fifty-five acres, the first in all that neighborhood. Another forward movement which owed much to his enterprise was the organization of a ditch company, and it was in this way he secured water for irrigating his land. On selling out his sheep he embarked in the grain business with John A. Patterson, they being the first to place under cultivation the Glide ranch in Stokes valley, also the first to introduce the L. U. Shippey combined Harvester operated by sixteen horses. For two of these machines they paid $400 freight to Cross creek. Under ordinary circumstances they would have reaped large profits from their cultivation of four thousand acres, but poor crops and low prices combined to make the investment unprofitable, and they sold out their holdings. On his return to Fresno county Mr. Baird became interested in the grain and cattle business, which he now conducts on his father's homestead. In politics he supports Democratic principles and keeps posted concerning events and issues affecting the progress of our government and the welfare of the country. For years he has affiliated with the Masons, his connection with the order dating from his taking of the first degree in the blue lodge at Visalia, F. & A. M. At Reno, Nev., January 24, 1898, he was united in marriage with Mrs. Mary (Davis) Givens, a native of Mariposa county and a daughter of William and Sarah J. (ElHs) Davis, born respectively in Arkansas and Virginia.
Her father was a second cousin of Jefferson Davis and the family features can be noted in her face. When eighteen years of age William Davis crossed the plains to California and settled among the pioneers of Millerton, where he became interested in the stock business, making a specialty of sheep. During the Indian troubles he assisted in bringing the savages into subjection to Authority. The maternal grandfather of Mrs. Baird was Dr. T. O. Ellis, a member of an old Virginia family and the first physician to practice in Fresno county, also the first incumbent of the office of county superintendent of schools, and in addition the first man in the entire county to set out a vineyard and an orchard. When he passed away in 1871, the county lost one of its most progressive pioneers, a man whose citizenship had been of the highest value in the development of latent resources. Since the death of William Davis, which occurred in 1871, his widow has made her home near Academy. Of her six children all but one are living, Mrs. Baird being the third among these. Educated in Visalia and Oakland, she received advantages which qualify her to adorn the best circles of society. By her first marriage she had two daughters, Hazel and Edith, who are now students in the Fresno high school.
Of her union with Mr. Baird there are three sons, Walter Addison, Morgan Corwin and Carroll Hubbard. Besides these sons Mr. Baird had five children born of his first marriage, namely : Nellie Ray, who married Frank Beck, a photographer in Fresno ; Clifford Jefferson, an electrician engaged in business in Fresno ; Alfred
Morgan, at home ; John Alexander, who died at Fresno in 1899, and Robert Lee, an electrician in Fresno. In religious belief Mrs. Baird holds membership with the Episcopal Church and supports by influence and financial aid those movements calculated to advance the spiritual welfare or the moral life of the community.
from a 1905 biography by J M Guinn
BENJAMIN MORGAN BAIRD. The ranching interests of Fresno county are ably represented by Benjamin Morgan Baird, who is a man of progressive spirit and keeps abreast with all the developments made in agricultural affairs in his community. A son of the honored pioneer, Alfred Baird, he inherits from his father qualities of the greatest value in the upbuilding of character as well as in the accumulation of property; and through the possession of sterling personal attributes he has won the good will of his associates and the confidence of friends. While it has been his good fortune to reap the benefits of his father's financial acumen and large success, such are his traits of enterprise and thrift that probably unaided by others success would have rewarded his sagacious undertakings.
While the family were living in Iowa Benjamin Morgan Baird was born at Frankville, Winneshiek county, December 27, 1853. At the age of six years he came across the plains with his parents and settled in Visalia, where he had public school advantages, supplemented by study under Father Dade. His education was completed by attendance at the San Jose State Normal School and by graduation from the business college in San Jose. On his return home he took up the sheep business in partnership with his father, but some years later became connected with an independent business in sheep-raising in Tulare county. During his sojourn there he sowed the first alfalfa in the vicinity and set out a vineyard of fifty-five acres, the first in all that neighborhood. Another forward movement which owed much to his enterprise was the organization of a ditch company, and it was in this way he secured water for irrigating his land. On selling out his sheep he embarked in the grain business with John A. Patterson, they being the first to place under cultivation the Glide ranch in Stokes valley, also the first to introduce the L. U. Shippey combined Harvester operated by sixteen horses. For two of these machines they paid $400 freight to Cross creek. Under ordinary circumstances they would have reaped large profits from their cultivation of four thousand acres, but poor crops and low prices combined to make the investment unprofitable, and they sold out their holdings. On his return to Fresno county Mr. Baird became interested in the grain and cattle business, which he now conducts on his father's homestead. In politics he supports Democratic principles and keeps posted concerning events and issues affecting the progress of our government and the welfare of the country. For years he has affiliated with the Masons, his connection with the order dating from his taking of the first degree in the blue lodge at Visalia, F. & A. M. At Reno, Nev., January 24, 1898, he was united in marriage with Mrs. Mary (Davis) Givens, a native of Mariposa county and a daughter of William and Sarah J. (ElHs) Davis, born respectively in Arkansas and Virginia.
Her father was a second cousin of Jefferson Davis and the family features can be noted in her face. When eighteen years of age William Davis crossed the plains to California and settled among the pioneers of Millerton, where he became interested in the stock business, making a specialty of sheep. During the Indian troubles he assisted in bringing the savages into subjection to Authority. The maternal grandfather of Mrs. Baird was Dr. T. O. Ellis, a member of an old Virginia family and the first physician to practice in Fresno county, also the first incumbent of the office of county superintendent of schools, and in addition the first man in the entire county to set out a vineyard and an orchard. When he passed away in 1871, the county lost one of its most progressive pioneers, a man whose citizenship had been of the highest value in the development of latent resources. Since the death of William Davis, which occurred in 1871, his widow has made her home near Academy. Of her six children all but one are living, Mrs. Baird being the third among these. Educated in Visalia and Oakland, she received advantages which qualify her to adorn the best circles of society. By her first marriage she had two daughters, Hazel and Edith, who are now students in the Fresno high school.
Of her union with Mr. Baird there are three sons, Walter Addison, Morgan Corwin and Carroll Hubbard. Besides these sons Mr. Baird had five children born of his first marriage, namely : Nellie Ray, who married Frank Beck, a photographer in Fresno ; Clifford Jefferson, an electrician engaged in business in Fresno ; Alfred
Morgan, at home ; John Alexander, who died at Fresno in 1899, and Robert Lee, an electrician in Fresno. In religious belief Mrs. Baird holds membership with the Episcopal Church and supports by influence and financial aid those movements calculated to advance the spiritual welfare or the moral life of the community.
Thank you Lester for the information...
from a 1905 biography by J M Guinn
BENJAMIN MORGAN BAIRD. The ranching interests of Fresno county are ably represented by Benjamin Morgan Baird, who is a man of progressive spirit and keeps abreast with all the developments made in agricultural affairs in his community. A son of the honored pioneer, Alfred Baird, he inherits from his father qualities of the greatest value in the upbuilding of character as well as in the accumulation of property; and through the possession of sterling personal attributes he has won the good will of his associates and the confidence of friends. While it has been his good fortune to reap the benefits of his father's financial acumen and large success, such are his traits of enterprise and thrift that probably unaided by others success would have rewarded his sagacious undertakings.
While the family were living in Iowa Benjamin Morgan Baird was born at Frankville, Winneshiek county, December 27, 1853. At the age of six years he came across the plains with his parents and settled in Visalia, where he had public school advantages, supplemented by study under Father Dade. His education was completed by attendance at the San Jose State Normal School and by graduation from the business college in San Jose. On his return home he took up the sheep business in partnership with his father, but some years later became connected with an independent business in sheep-raising in Tulare county. During his sojourn there he sowed the first alfalfa in the vicinity and set out a vineyard of fifty-five acres, the first in all that neighborhood. Another forward movement which owed much to his enterprise was the organization of a ditch company, and it was in this way he secured water for irrigating his land. On selling out his sheep he embarked in the grain business with John A. Patterson, they being the first to place under cultivation the Glide ranch in Stokes valley, also the first to introduce the L. U. Shippey combined Harvester operated by sixteen horses. For two of these machines they paid $400 freight to Cross creek. Under ordinary circumstances they would have reaped large profits from their cultivation of four thousand acres, but poor crops and low prices combined to make the investment unprofitable, and they sold out their holdings. On his return to Fresno county Mr. Baird became interested in the grain and cattle business, which he now conducts on his father's homestead. In politics he supports Democratic principles and keeps posted concerning events and issues affecting the progress of our government and the welfare of the country. For years he has affiliated with the Masons, his connection with the order dating from his taking of the first degree in the blue lodge at Visalia, F. & A. M. At Reno, Nev., January 24, 1898, he was united in marriage with Mrs. Mary (Davis) Givens, a native of Mariposa county and a daughter of William and Sarah J. (ElHs) Davis, born respectively in Arkansas and Virginia.
Her father was a second cousin of Jefferson Davis and the family features can be noted in her face. When eighteen years of age William Davis crossed the plains to California and settled among the pioneers of Millerton, where he became interested in the stock business, making a specialty of sheep. During the Indian troubles he assisted in bringing the savages into subjection to Authority. The maternal grandfather of Mrs. Baird was Dr. T. O. Ellis, a member of an old Virginia family and the first physician to practice in Fresno county, also the first incumbent of the office of county superintendent of schools, and in addition the first man in the entire county to set out a vineyard and an orchard. When he passed away in 1871, the county lost one of its most progressive pioneers, a man whose citizenship had been of the highest value in the development of latent resources. Since the death of William Davis, which occurred in 1871, his widow has made her home near Academy. Of her six children all but one are living, Mrs. Baird being the third among these. Educated in Visalia and Oakland, she received advantages which qualify her to adorn the best circles of society. By her first marriage she had two daughters, Hazel and Edith, who are now students in the Fresno high school.
Of her union with Mr. Baird there are three sons, Walter Addison, Morgan Corwin and Carroll Hubbard. Besides these sons Mr. Baird had five children born of his first marriage, namely : Nellie Ray, who married Frank Beck, a photographer in Fresno ; Clifford Jefferson, an electrician engaged in business in Fresno ; Alfred
Morgan, at home ; John Alexander, who died at Fresno in 1899, and Robert Lee, an electrician in Fresno. In religious belief Mrs. Baird holds membership with the Episcopal Church and supports by influence and financial aid those movements calculated to advance the spiritual welfare or the moral life of the community.
from a 1905 biography by J M Guinn
BENJAMIN MORGAN BAIRD. The ranching interests of Fresno county are ably represented by Benjamin Morgan Baird, who is a man of progressive spirit and keeps abreast with all the developments made in agricultural affairs in his community. A son of the honored pioneer, Alfred Baird, he inherits from his father qualities of the greatest value in the upbuilding of character as well as in the accumulation of property; and through the possession of sterling personal attributes he has won the good will of his associates and the confidence of friends. While it has been his good fortune to reap the benefits of his father's financial acumen and large success, such are his traits of enterprise and thrift that probably unaided by others success would have rewarded his sagacious undertakings.
While the family were living in Iowa Benjamin Morgan Baird was born at Frankville, Winneshiek county, December 27, 1853. At the age of six years he came across the plains with his parents and settled in Visalia, where he had public school advantages, supplemented by study under Father Dade. His education was completed by attendance at the San Jose State Normal School and by graduation from the business college in San Jose. On his return home he took up the sheep business in partnership with his father, but some years later became connected with an independent business in sheep-raising in Tulare county. During his sojourn there he sowed the first alfalfa in the vicinity and set out a vineyard of fifty-five acres, the first in all that neighborhood. Another forward movement which owed much to his enterprise was the organization of a ditch company, and it was in this way he secured water for irrigating his land. On selling out his sheep he embarked in the grain business with John A. Patterson, they being the first to place under cultivation the Glide ranch in Stokes valley, also the first to introduce the L. U. Shippey combined Harvester operated by sixteen horses. For two of these machines they paid $400 freight to Cross creek. Under ordinary circumstances they would have reaped large profits from their cultivation of four thousand acres, but poor crops and low prices combined to make the investment unprofitable, and they sold out their holdings. On his return to Fresno county Mr. Baird became interested in the grain and cattle business, which he now conducts on his father's homestead. In politics he supports Democratic principles and keeps posted concerning events and issues affecting the progress of our government and the welfare of the country. For years he has affiliated with the Masons, his connection with the order dating from his taking of the first degree in the blue lodge at Visalia, F. & A. M. At Reno, Nev., January 24, 1898, he was united in marriage with Mrs. Mary (Davis) Givens, a native of Mariposa county and a daughter of William and Sarah J. (ElHs) Davis, born respectively in Arkansas and Virginia.
Her father was a second cousin of Jefferson Davis and the family features can be noted in her face. When eighteen years of age William Davis crossed the plains to California and settled among the pioneers of Millerton, where he became interested in the stock business, making a specialty of sheep. During the Indian troubles he assisted in bringing the savages into subjection to Authority. The maternal grandfather of Mrs. Baird was Dr. T. O. Ellis, a member of an old Virginia family and the first physician to practice in Fresno county, also the first incumbent of the office of county superintendent of schools, and in addition the first man in the entire county to set out a vineyard and an orchard. When he passed away in 1871, the county lost one of its most progressive pioneers, a man whose citizenship had been of the highest value in the development of latent resources. Since the death of William Davis, which occurred in 1871, his widow has made her home near Academy. Of her six children all but one are living, Mrs. Baird being the third among these. Educated in Visalia and Oakland, she received advantages which qualify her to adorn the best circles of society. By her first marriage she had two daughters, Hazel and Edith, who are now students in the Fresno high school.
Of her union with Mr. Baird there are three sons, Walter Addison, Morgan Corwin and Carroll Hubbard. Besides these sons Mr. Baird had five children born of his first marriage, namely : Nellie Ray, who married Frank Beck, a photographer in Fresno ; Clifford Jefferson, an electrician engaged in business in Fresno ; Alfred
Morgan, at home ; John Alexander, who died at Fresno in 1899, and Robert Lee, an electrician in Fresno. In religious belief Mrs. Baird holds membership with the Episcopal Church and supports by influence and financial aid those movements calculated to advance the spiritual welfare or the moral life of the community.
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