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Representative Edmund B. Baird View All Years

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Compiled Historical Information
Date of Death: 2/23/1902
Party Affiliation: Anti-Monopoly
Assemblies Served:
House: 15 (1874)
Home County: Ida
Edmund B. Baird
Ida County
Born in Onondaga County, New York, November 6, 1837, and was raised on a farm. He was educated in the common schools Onondaga County, New York, and attended Monroe Collegiate Institute. In 1872, he came to Iowa and bought land in Maple Township, Ida County, Iowa. Mr. Baird was married at age of 30 to Harriet Conover, daughter of Isaac Talmage, in Scholarie County, New York. Mr. Baird was vice president and director of the Maple Valley Savings Bank and served as a member of the Maple Township School Board, Justice of the Peace and Township Trustee. He was a member of 15th Iowa General Assembly.
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House District 41
Committees
15th GA (1874)
Standing Committees
Legislation Sponsored
15th GA (1874)