John S. Barid

BAIRD, JACK

Posted By: Judy Wight Branson (email)
Date: 9/10/2004 at 10:45:01

John S. Baird, Jackson twp.; farmer, Sec. 16; P.O. Winterset; born in Guernsey county, Ohio, in 1845; lived there until eighteen years old, when he went to Warren county, Illinois, in order to earn and save a little money for the purpose of assisting his father, who had met with misfortune in a financial way; lived in Illinois about nine months, and then enlisted, November 20, 1863, in company B, Eighty-third Illinois infantry, and remained with that regiment until June 1865, when he was transferred to the Sixty-first Illinois infantry, doing good service as a mounted infantry fighting guerrillas; September 23, 1865 he was discharged with his regiment at Springfield, Illinois; he returned to Warren county and engaged in farming; before becoming of age he sent home nearly $500 to his father - all he had saved - and since that time has succeeded, unaided, in making himself and family a good home; came to Clinton county, Iowa, living there until 1873, when he removed to where he now resides; he was married to Eliza M. Jack, of Adair county; she was born in Scott county, Illinois, July 23, 1856; have two children: Nathaniel T. and Merle L.; owns undivided half of 160 acres of land.

Taken from the book, "The History of Madison County, Iowa, 1879" page 627