History of Lee County, Illinois - Bushnell Historical Society

HISTORY OF LEE COUNTY 185
compares favorably with Illinois farms in its buildings and improvements,
the climate is fine, the people are of the best type of
American citizenship and yet there are often times when Mr. Richardson
longs for his old home in Illinois, where he resided for so
many years, during which tune he formed a strong attachment for
the state and its people.
ROBERT L. BAIRD, M. D.
Thorough college training and broad hospital experience well
qualify Dr. Robert L. Baird for the onerous duties which now de-
volve upon him as a practitioner of medicine in Dixon. He is yet
a young man but has already attained a position in the profession
which many an older practitioner might well envy. He was born
in Sterling, Illinois, in 1883. and is a son of H. D. and Margaret
(Norrish) Baird, who are also natives of Illinois. However, their
parents were from England and Scotland respectiA'ely and were
pioneers of this state. H. D. Baird was roared to the occupation
of farming and has made it his life woik.
At the usual age Dr. Baird entered the jiiiblic schools, passed
throTigh consecutive grades as he mastered the lessons connected
thei owith and in due time became a high-school pupil. His edu-
cation was further continued in Dixon College, of which he is a
gi'aduate, and then in preparation for the medical profession,
which he had determined to make his life work, he entered the
Hahnemann Medical College and was graduated therefrom in 1908.
For a year he was an interne in the Hahnemann Hospital, being
appointed to this position in recognition of his high standing in his
college work. This brought him broad medical experience, en-
abling him to put his theoretical training to the test, and after a'
year thus spent he returned to Dixon, where he opened an office
and entered upon general practice in 1909. It was not long before
his ability found recognition in a practice that has steadily grown.
Although he is a young man. he has already made a creditable name
and place for himself. He belongs to the Lee Coimty Homeo-
pathic Medical Society, the Illinois State Homeopnthic Society
and the National Homeopathic Medical Association.
In 1910 Dr. Baird was married to Miss Grace Over, of Sterling,
Illinois. His social nature finds expression in his member-
ship in the Masonic lodge, the Knights of Pythias fraternity