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- Elizabeth Therese Baird was the daughter of a British fur trader and a French-Ottawa mother. The Bairds were connected to many of the founders of modern Wisconsin through family ties, marriage, business interests, and politics. They participated in or witnessed the birth of nearly all the state's important social institutions.
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Elizabeth Baird was a strong woman with fierce determination living on the Wisconsin frontier. Born a native French speaker, Elizabeth taught herself English and worked as an interpreter in her husband’s law firm, all while operating her family’s farm and recording her memoirs.
Elizabeth Baird’s newspaper stories about the developing Green Bay area in the 1800s were among the earliest written accounts of life in Wisconsin. Elizabeth Baird was born Elizabeth Fisher in Prairie du Chien, nearly 40 years before Wisconsin became a state.
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Elizabeth Baird was a strong woman with fierce determination living on the Wisconsin frontier. Born a native French speaker, Elizabeth taught herself English and worked as an interpreter in her husband’s law firm, all while operating her family’s farm and recording her memoirs.
Henry Samuel Baird was a territorial politician and prominent early Wisconsin settler. Elizabeth Therese Baird was the daughter of a British fur trader and a French-Ottawa mother. The Bairds were connected to many of the founders of modern Wisconsin through family ties, marriage, business interests, and politics.
Elizabeth Baird. Family and personal life. On August 12, 1824, Henry Baird married the 14-year-old Elizabeth Fisher, who had been his favorite student. Elizabeth was born in Prairie du Chien in southwest Wisconsin and had moved with her mother to Mackinac Island as a toddler.
Elizabeth Baird (1810-1890) and her husband Henry (1800-1875) typified prominent white settlers who inhabited 19th-century Wisconsin. Elizabeth was the daughter of a British fur trader in Prairie du Chien and a French-Ottawa mother.
