LIFE AT CARLISLE 117 



In October he notes writing an article on "blue print" 

 photography for the Gettysburg Society, which may be 

 essentially the same as that published in the Literary 

 Record of the Linnean Association of Pennsylvania 

 College in December of 1844. He served as groomsman 

 at the marriage of his friend Harriet Duncan with Mr. 

 John Olyphant. That his attentions to the girls were 

 not all of a superficial character is shown by the fact that 

 he records cutting out for two of them 2900 lozenges of 

 material for patchwork! 



On the first of November he cast his maiden presi- 

 dential vote for Clay and Frelinghuysen. On the same 

 day he notes "Suffered periodical cleaning of work room 

 today," an experience all students of Natural History 

 will appreciate. 



On the 5th the family of Colonel Churchill arrived 

 in Carlisle, consisting of Mrs. Churchill, her daughter 

 Mary Helen, 6 and Charles Churchill, her youngest son. 

 The sad circumstances which united Mrs. Blaney, Baird's 

 aunt, and the Churchills in a lasting friendship have 

 already been recorded. 



Miss Lucy Baird writes in her reminiscences: 



"When my grandfather was obliged to leave his 

 family on military duty in Mexico, in 1844, my grand- 

 mother Churchill looked for some pleasant place to live 

 in, with her unmarried and just grown daughter, and 

 youngest son, during Col. Churchill's absence. Mrs. 

 Blaney wrote and urged her to come to Carlisle. This, 

 she finally decided to do; boarding at first in a house,., 

 Mrs. Elaine's, nearly opposite to that in which my grand- 

 mother Baird lived." 



6 Born Aug. 30, 1821. 



