Henry Carey Baird


Henry Carey Baird was a publisher in the United States who was politically active. He wrote and testified on economic issues in the United States. The New York Public Library has a folder of his letters. His publishing business was in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Early Life

He was born at the arsenal in Bridesburg, Philadelphia the son of officer Thomas J. Baird and Eliza Carey Baird. Henry Charles Carey was his uncle. He had grandparents that immigrated from Ireland.

Career

He began his career at his uncle Edward L. Carey's publishing firm Carey & Hart for several years before establishing his own in 1849. He left the Republican Party to help found the Greenback Party He helped defeat legislation for a bond issue. His views on it were published in 1876. His writings on the "National Finances" were published in 1877. In 1878 he testified on specie payments. His letters to the New York Daily News on the "Irish Question" were published.
He printed books on financial and political subjects. He printed "Washington and General Jackson on negro soldiers". Gen. Banks on the bravery of negro troops. Poem--the Second Louisiana", Printed for gratuitous distribution.
He was the first commercial publisher in the United States that specialized in industrial texts and he was a publisher into the early 20th century.
He wrote a memoir about Colonel Alexander Biddle. He wrote to Mellen Chamberlain in 1849. His firm printed catalogues of "Practical & Scientific Books by Henry C Baird". He published a memoir of Henry Charles Carey, the publisher who was his mom's brother.

Personal life

In 1850, Baird married Elizabeth Davis Pennington. The two had just one daughter. Baird's wife later died in 1901, leaving him a widower.

Death

On December 31, 1912, Baird died in his apartment in Wayne, Pennsylvania.

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