Information from #46627920
From a 1905 biography for Benjamin Baird
At Reno, Nev., January 24, 1898, Benjamin was united in marriage with Mrs. Mary (Davis) Givens, a native of Mariposa county and a daughter of William and Sarah J. 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.
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From a 1905 biography for Benjamin Baird
At Reno, Nev., January 24, 1898, Benjamin was united in marriage with Mrs. Mary (Davis) Givens, a native of Mariposa county and a daughter of William and Sarah J. 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.
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Information from #46627920
From a 1905 biography for Benjamin Baird
At Reno, Nev., January 24, 1898, Benjamin was united in marriage with Mrs. Mary (Davis) Givens, a native of Mariposa county and a daughter of William and Sarah J. 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.
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From a 1905 biography for Benjamin Baird
At Reno, Nev., January 24, 1898, Benjamin was united in marriage with Mrs. Mary (Davis) Givens, a native of Mariposa county and a daughter of William and Sarah J. 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.
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