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 what 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 
