Shakespeare, a prominent ophthalmic surgeon, in 1889. Florence A. Baird (d. 1936), who married diplomat John Brinckerhoff Jackson in 1886. After the death of his first wife in 1863, he remarried to Anna Wright (1840–1919) on June 1, 1871. Anna was a daughter of politician and landowner Benjamin Franklin Wright and Margaretta Miller (née McLean) Wright. Together, they were the parents of: Edgar Wright Baird (1872–1934), who married Mabel Rogers, a granddaughter of William Barton Rogers, founder of MIT. William James Baird (1873–1924), who married Maria Uytendale Hendrickson, a daughter of Judge Charles Hendrickson of New Jersey. Marian Baird (1875–1966), who married Reed Augustus Morgan and moved to France. Cora Baird (1876–1965), who married Henry Sulger Jeanes. Matthew Baird Jr. (1877–1955), who married Mary Louise Register, a daughter of I. Layton Register. Baird died in Philadelphia on May 19, 1877. Honors and legacy The town of Baird, Texas, is named after Matthew Baird. The Matthew Baird Mansion was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1983. References External links 1817 births 1877 deaths American people in rail transportation American railroad mechanical engineers Irish emigrants to the United States (before 1923) 19th-century American railroad executives