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,* 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. Blaine’s, nearly opposite to that in which my grand- 
mother Baird lived.” 
6 Born Aug. 30, 1821. 
