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BENJAMIN P. BAIRD
B. P. BAIRD, farmer of Elliott Township, was born in New York State, in 1826, where he remained until 1844, when he went
to Illinois. Eight years later he came to California via the Isthmus. Took the steamer Georgia from New York to the Isthmus, and from the Isthmus to San Francisco the steamer Tennessee; after a
voyage of thirty days he landed in Monterey, where he remained a few days. He went to San Jose, which place he made his home for three years. In
1855 he came to Stockton, and in 1860 bought 160 acres of Government land,
situated about twelve miles from Stockton on the upper Sacramento road. The ranch is principally devoted to the raising
of wheat and stock; ten acres are planted in fruit trees and vines.
He was married in Stockton in 1860 to Miss Julia H. Guernsey, who was born in Michigan in 1840. They have eight children living: three died.
The names are as follows: Edward E., Frederick G., Ella F., who died in 1883;
Hattie R., Julia J., who died in 1879; Benjamin A., Clara E., Herbert H., Edith
C., Judson G., who died in 1890; and Josephene D.
Transcribed by: Jeanne Sturgis Taylor.
An Illustrated History of San Joaquin County,
California, Page 358. Lewis Pub. Co.
Chicago, Illinois 1890.
© 2009 Jeanne Sturgis Taylor.
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