Biography of Frank Baird, page 839.  History of De Kalb County, Indiana. 
Inter-State Publishing Company, Chicago, 1885.

Frank Baird, a successful farmer of Union Township, was born in Lancaster 
County, Pa., Sept. 17, 1817, the youngest of four children of John and Agnes 
(Andrews) Baird.  His parents moved to Wayne county, Ohio, in an early day, 
and in the spring of 1846 to De Kalb County, Ind., and settled one mile east 
of Auburn where the father died in 1851, and the mother in 1869.  Frank 
Baird was reared a farmer, remaining with his parents till their death, and 
then inheriting the homestead.  His father bought 160 acres of wild land 
when he came to De Kalb County, and to this he has added twenty acres.  He 
now owns one of the finest farms in Union Township, all well improved. In 
1876 he built a large two-story brick residence, with all modern improvements. 
He has two large barns, and his farm buildings are in good repair.  Mr. Baird 
was married in Ohio, to Hester Stoner, who died in 1869, leaving six children---
Amelia, wife of Isaac Beachlar; John H., Calvin L., Thomas F., Zora M. and 
William L.  In 1871 he married Sophia Leas, daughter of John Leas, of De 
Kalb County.  He is one of the successful and representative farmers of De 
Kalb County.

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Arlene Goodwin
Auburn, Indiana
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