Baird, Charles Washington

D.D. (University, New York City, 1876), Presbyterian; b. at Princeton, N.J., Aug. 28, 1828; graduated at the University of the City of New York, 1848, and at Union Theological Seminary, 1852; was chaplain of the American Chapel at Rome, Italy, 1852-54 and pastor of the Reformed Dutch Church on Bergen Hill, Brooklyn, N.Y., 1859-61; but since 1861 has been pastor of the Presbyterian Church of Rye, West chester County, N.Y. He is the necrologist of Union Theological Seminary. He has written the following books: Eutaxia, or the Presbyterian Liturgies: Historical Sketches, New York, 1855 (revised and reprinted under title A Chapter on Liturgies, with preface and appendix, Are Di enters to have a Liturgy? both by Thomas Binney, London, 1856); A Book of Public Prayer, compiled from the Authorized Formularies of Worship of the Presbyterian Church, as prepared by the Reformers Calvin, Knox, Bucer, and others. With Supplementary Forms, New York, 1857; Chronicle of a Border Town [Rye, N.Y.], 1870; History of Bedford Church [West chester County, N.Y.], 1882; History of the Huguenot Emigration to America [1885], 2 vols., 2d ed. same year. Besides these he has translated Malan's Romanism, New York, 1844; and Discourses and E ays of J. H. Merle d'Aubigne, 1846; and written an article in Magazine of American History (1879, October) on Civil Status of Presbyterians in the Province of New York.