Absalom Baird, USMA 1849

20 August 1824 --- 14 June 1905

• Assistant Professor of Mathematics, USMA, 1852-1859.

Genealogy:

His son William Baird (#2577) and g-g-grandson John Harold Daly, Jr. (#31908) are graduates.

References:

Arney, Chris, West Point's Scientific 200: Celebration of the Bicentennial. Biographies of 200 of West Point's Most Successful and Influential Mathematicians, Scientists, Engineers, and Technologists, 2002.

Baird, John A. (1918-?), Profile of a hero: the story of Absalom Baird, his family, and the American military tradition, Philadelphia : Dorrance, c1977. USMA Circulating books E467.1.B15 B34.

Cullum # 1415.