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BADGER, Rev. MILTON, D. D., a Congrega- 

 tionalist clergyman and writer, for thirty-eight 

 years an active and efficient secretary of the 

 American Home Missionary Society, born in 

 Coventry, Conn., May 6, 1800; died in Madi- 

 son, Conn., March 1, 1873. From early youth 

 he gave evidence of the possession of remark- 

 able talent, and, having united with the Con- 

 gregational Church at the ago of sixteen, he 

 was encouraged to obtain au education with a 

 view to the ministry. Ho entered Yale Col- 

 lege in 1819, and graduated with distinguished 

 honor in 1823. After spending a year in 

 touching in New Canaan, Conn., he began his 

 theological studies in Andover Theological 

 Seminary, but in 1826 removed to New Haven 

 to become a tutor in Yale College, and finished 

 his preparation for the ministry in the Yale 

 Divinity School. He was licensed to preach 

 in 1827 by the New Haven East Association, 

 and was ordained January 3, 1828, as pastor 

 of the South Congregational Churcb in An- 

 dover, Mass. His parish included the Theolo- 

 gical Seminary and Phillips Academy, and his 

 congregation was, as a body, highly intelligent 

 and intellectual. In this field of labor he re- 

 mained for seven years, gaining with each 

 year in the confidence of his church and of 

 his brethren in the ministry, by his earnest 

 devotion to his work, his eloquence as a 

 preacher, and his tact and skill as a pastor. 

 In 1833 he was called from his parish to be- 

 come the associate secretary of the American 

 Home Missionary Society, and, though it com- 

 pletely overthrew all his previously-formed 

 plans for usefulness and activity, and placed 

 him at once outside of all opportunities of ad- 

 vancement and prominence in the ministry of 

 his denomination, he felt it his duty to accept 

 the position. He was soon, by the resignation 

 of Dr. Peters, placed in the position of senior 

 secretary, and for thirty-four years he per- 

 formed the often difficult and trying duties of 

 his office with a faithfulness, an assiduity, a 

 comprehensiveness of purpose, and a skill in 

 the management of all its details, almost in- 

 credible. He possessed* a vigorous constitu- 

 tion, but the vastness and constant pressure 

 of his work proved too much for even his iron 

 frame, and in 1809 he was compelled, by the 

 manifestations of the disease which finally 

 ended his life, to withdraw from active duties, 

 though he continued until the last to be the 

 wise and affectionate counselor of his asso- 

 ciates and snccessors in office. He received 

 the degree of D. D. from Middlebury College 

 in 1844. 



BAIRD, THOMAS D., PR. D., LL. D., a dis- 

 tinguished scholar, Principal and Professor of 

 il uri'l Moral Philosophy in Baltimore 

 City College, born in Ohio, July 14, 1819 ; died 



in Baltimore, Md., June 9, 1873. He was the 

 second son of the late Rev. Thomas D. Baird, 

 a distinguished Presbyterian clergyman and 

 religious journalist of Pittsburg, Pa. He was 

 educated at Jefferson College, Pa., where he 

 took both the regular degrees of Bachelor 

 of Arts and Master of Arts. In 1839 Prof. 

 Baird came to Baltimore, having been called 

 to the chair of Mathematics in the then Balti- 

 more High School, a chartered institution, but 

 in no way connected with the system of pub- 

 lic education, lie continued in this position 

 for some years, and in the mean time studied 

 law with the late William Schley. In 1844 

 he was admitted to the Baltimore bar, but 

 never practised law, preferring the more con- 

 genial duties of an instructor of youth. In 

 1847 he became a Professor of Mathematics in 

 Marshall College, Pennsylvania, where ho 

 remained until 1850, when he returned to 

 Baltimore, and opened a private classical and 

 mathematical school. In 1854 he was again 

 called to the West, having been elected a pro- 

 fessor in Westminster College, Missouri. He 

 returned to Baltimore in 1857, when he was 

 elected Principal of the High School (now 

 Baltimore City College), a position he con- 

 tinued to hold, under all the changing adminis- 

 trations, up to his death. About the time he 

 took charge of the Baltimore City College he 

 was made Doctor of Philosophy by Concordia 

 College, Missouri, and some years later Doctor 

 of Laws by Centre College, Kentucky. For 

 many years Dr. Baird was Secretary of the 

 Maryland Historical Society, member of the 

 Board of Managers of the Maryland Bible So- 

 ciety, a member of the Children's Aid Society, 

 a member of the Evangelical Alliance, and a 

 ruling elder in the Central Presbyterian 

 Church. Prof. Baird was distinguished as a 

 successful teacher of youth one who always 

 united gentleness with firmness, and so won 

 the sincere affection and respect of his pupils. 

 He had many warm friends in Baltimore, 

 who deeply mourned the loss of such a man, 

 and in educational circles his death was espe- 

 cially felt. 



BAPTISTS. I. REGULAR BAPTISTS IN 

 AMERICA. In the table on the following page 

 are given the statistics of the Baptist Churches 

 in the United States, as published in January, 

 1873. 



The number of Associations was 853 ; num- 

 ber of Sunday-schools (so far as reported), 

 9,412 ; of officers and teachers in the same, 

 88,035 ; of scholars, 653,742. The entire 

 amount of benevolent contributions reported 

 for the year 1872 was $4,926,527.04. Tiie nine 

 theological institutions reported 40 instruc- 

 tors and 419 students ; the 34 colleges and 

 universities, 256 teachers, 3,314 male and 448 



