Andrew W Baird
Gender:
Male
Age:
59
Birth Date:
abt 1860
Birth Place:
Lanark, Ontario
Death Date:
8 Aug 1919
Death Place:
Lanark, Ontario, Canada
Cause of Death:
Concussion of Brain
29 Aug 1860
DEATH
7 Aug 1919 (aged 58)
BURIAL
Lanark Village Cemetery
Lanark, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada Show Map
MEMORIAL ID
210767478 · View Source
| Name: | Andrew William Baird |
|---|---|
| Birth Date: | 29 Aug 1860 |
| Death Date: | 7 Aug 1919 |
| Cemetery: | Lanark Village Cemetery |
| Burial or Cremation Place: | Lanark, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada |
| Has Bio?: | N |
| Father: | Andrew Baird |
| Mother: | Margaret Baird |
| Spouse: | Janet Baird |
| Children: | Margaret Stead BairdNettie Scott Baird |
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
16 Sep 1912, Mon • Page 14-Andrew Baird-Lanark Fair
Andrew Baird-Lanark Fair-The Ottawa Citizen
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
14 Sep 1910, Wed • Page 10
EARL DONALDSON on said: Edit
The death notice of Andrew Boyd , states he was killed at one of Caldwell’s mills in Perth . Perth remembered , shows a picture of the Caldwell Mill in Lanark , stating that the location was likely the location where Andrew Baird met his fate . I don’t believe Boyd Caldwell had any operations in Perth . I knew Margaret and Nettie Baird , Andrew’s two daughters .
Thomas Boyd Caldwell came from a business family. In Carleton Place his father had operated a sawmill while in Lanark Village the family operated a sawmill, a woollen mill and a general store.
After his father’s death in 1888, Thomas Boyd Caldwell continued to operate Boyd Caldwell & Co. in Lanark Village. In 1899 he expanded the business to include the woollen mill in Appleton and later he purchased a woollen mill in Perth.
Splinters of bark and wood flew with each thunk of the timber axe. Clearing thick forests near Lanark in the 1840s, muscles rippled and grunts emanated with vigorous swings of the axe. Trees crashed to the ground and then were delimbed, prepared to be sent to the mills. One teenager delighted in lumbering and later in commerce. Peter McLaren found his calling. Read more
Three years later, retiring lumber magnate “McLaren sold his interests in the area. Boyd Caldwell’s death followed in 1888, marking the end of one of the most influential disagreements in Canadian legal history,” according to Cision.
Related reading
Documenting The Lanark Village Caldwell Home –“The Hielans”
The Alexander Clyde Caldwell Family Part 1
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