GENEALOGICAL AND FAMILY NOTES 5 



character of the fine library he possessed was evidently 

 a good French scholar and a well-read man. He studied 

 law in the office of John S. Hopkins of Lancaster. He 

 entered into practice in Schuylkill, Lancaster, and Mont- 

 gomery Counties as well as Berks, and was known among 

 the Pennsylvania Germans of the region as "The Coun- 

 sellor," because he settled privately more cases than he 

 took to court. He belonged to the Masonic order, but 

 attended no meetings after the notorious Morgan episode. 

 He was at one time a member of the State Senate and 

 held other more local offices. He fixed his residence in 

 Reading for the practice of his profession. Probably during 

 professional visits to Philadelphia he met the lady, Miss 

 Lydia MacFunn Biddle, who in 1815 became his wife. 

 Through her mother and paternal grandmother Miss Biddle 

 united strains of the most distinguished colonial ancestry 

 traceable without uncertainty to the seventeenth century. 



The marriage was blessed with seven children: 

 William McFunn (Aug. 4, i8i7,-Oct. 19, 1872); Samuel 

 (3) (Apr. 3, i82i,-i884); Spencer Fullerton (Feb. 3, 

 i823,-Aug. 19, 1887); Rebecca Potts (1825-1907); Lydia 

 Spencer (1827-1876); Mary Deborah (1829-1900); and 

 Thomas (1831-1897). 



Samuel Baird (2) was required by his profession to 

 spend more or less time away from his home, travelling, 

 and in the "cholera year" 1833 was taken ill and died, 

 July 27, at the early age of forty-seven. After his death, 

 his widow with her family removed to Carlisle, where 

 she died, June 3, 1871. After her death her husband's 

 remains were removed to Carlisle and placed beside hers, 

 but the headstone to his memory still remains in the 

 family burial ground at Pottstown, where all his brothers 

 and sisters are interred. 



