24 SPENCER FULLERTON BAIRD 



his children, my father among them, who remembered 

 him, did so, not merely with respect, but with great love 

 and admiration. 



"My grandfather was a very religious man and a very 

 strict Presbyterian. He had a good income from his 

 practice as a lawyer and left sufficient property to support 

 his family with economy. At some period in his life he 

 resolved to reduce what might be called his worldly 

 expenses, made up his mind \vhat would be the sum 

 sufficient for the maintenance of his family and education 

 of his children, and then proceeded to devote the re- 

 mainder of his income to the poor, giving up his carriage 

 and everything which he considered unnecessary luxury. 

 Whether he would have felt justified in giving away as 

 much as he did if he had known that he was going to die 

 comparatively young, leaving a family of seven children, 

 the eldest of whom was not yet past his childhood, may 

 be questioned. It is quite possible, however, that the 

 uncertainty of human life entered into his calculations. 

 Certain it is, however, whether because the sum was a 

 small one, or investments did not turn out as well as was 

 hoped, my grandmother was a good deal straitened after 

 his death, although there was sufficient to live on with 

 strict economy, in comfort, though not luxury. She 

 succeeded in giving her children a good education, the 

 fact of her having moved to Carlisle, a college town, 

 greatly facilitating this. 



"My grandmother was as near being a saint as is 

 often the lot of a mortal. Like her husband, she was 

 very religious, holding consistently to the same strict 

 form of Presbyterianism. There is no tradition of her 

 ever having uttered an unkind or impatient word, or 

 committed an unkind or angry action. No one now living 



