Identity area
Type of entity
Person
Authorized form of name
Baird, George Thomas
Parallel form(s) of name
Standardized form(s) of name according to other rules
Other form(s) of name
- Baird, George Thomas Senator
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Description area
Dates of existence
1847-1917
History
George Thomas Baird was born in 1847, at Bairdsville, Carleton County, New Brunswick, of Scottish ancestry. He was the son of George and Frances (Bishop) Baird. He married Ida Jane Sadler, daughter of Captain Dexter W. Sadler, of Saint John in 1879 and had two sons.
George Baird was educated at the public school and the Provincial Normal School. He taught school for a number of years. He also was engaged in general mercantile and lumbering business in Andover. He was a Mason, a postmaster at Perth, 1878-1882, and a justice of the peace for Victoria County. He represented Victoria County in the House of Assembly, 1884-1890 and 1892-1895, as a Conservative. He was called to the Senate of Canada, in June 1895, where he served until his death in Andover in 1917.
Source: Prominent People of New Brunswick, 1937