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Edward T. Baird, who is
engaged in the second- hand clothing busi-
ness at 529 Reed street, is
a descendant of a pioneer Missouri family.
He was born in Adair
County, July 8, 1877, and is a son of John and
Susan (Redding) Baird.
John Baird was also a native of Adair County
and was a son of William
Baird.
William Baird was among
the first settlers of Adair County. He
served in the Union Army
during the Civil War, and is now at the
National Soldiers' Home at
Leavenworth, Kan., and is in his 97th year.
He was born in Kentucky
and upon locating in Adair County, Mo., much
of the land in that section,
or nearly all, was government land, and he
entered a farm from the
government, and for a number of years, fol-
lowed farming. John
Baird, father of Edward T. Baird, died in 1880,
and his remains are buried
at Winchester, Kan, His wife survived him
for a number of years and
died in 1902. They were the parents of two
children; Mrs. Jennie
Williams, who died at Trenton, Mo.: and Edward
T. the subject of this
sketch.
Edward T. Baird was
educated in the public school at Humphrey,
Mo. and for a number of
years was engaged in the restaurant and hotel
business in Nebraska and
South Dakota, and for a time conducted a hotel
at Novinger, Mo., and later
the depot restaurant there. For a number
of years, he has made a
specialty of buying and selling hotels and restau-
rants and carried this line
of business on in a way which proved very
profitable. He bought the
Purity Candy Shop and Restaurant at Moberly,
which he owned a short
time and sold it in March, 1919. He came to Mo-
berly September, 1918,
and engaged in his present business.
Mr. Baird was married in
1900 to Grace Vaul of Kirksville, Mo., and
two children have been
born to this union; Ray C., a student in the Mob-
erly Business College; and
Estella V., Kirksville, Mo.
Mr. Baird is a progressive
business man, who has had a varied experi-
ence and has met with
uniform success. |