Died February 26, 1935, per NY Health Dept. Records; 4 AM, February 27th, per obituary.
Rural Times, Otego NY
March 1, 1935:
Arthur Bird, veteran editor and founder of the Sidney Record, died Wednesday morning at 4:05 o'clock at his home on Union Street, Sidney. He suffered a stroke of apoplexy on December 10 followed by a second on Saturday.
Mr. Bird was born in Port-au-Prince the son of the Rev. Mark Baker Bird, Lutheran clergyman and head of missions there for 40 years. His father came from London, England, and his mother, Susan DeJersey Bird, came from the Isle of Jersey. The son was sent to England for private schooling and while yet in his teens was returned to Port-au-Prince. He came to the United States and entered Cornell University. That was the fourth year following the founding of the University.
He was attending this institution, founded by Ezra Cornell in 1865, when he heard Mr. Cornell declare at assembly before his class, in 1869, that "now we have a foreign student enrolled we can rightly lay claim to being a college.". Mr. Bird came from Port-au-Prince, Haiti, in the West Indies, and was always believed that Mr. Cornell was thus referring to his registration.
Leaving Cornell, Mr. Bird went to Jeffersonville, near Liberty, where a brother, Theodore, resided and there he met and married Miss Sarah Tuttle Borgardus shortly after the election of President Hayes. Learning of the appointment of a United States representative to Haiti, he went to Washington and because of his linguistic abilities, being able to speak French and Spanish fluently as well as having a knowledge of other languages, he served for some time as interpreter to the Unites States executive, with headquarters in Port-au-Prince.
Patriotic and desirous of entering the Federal service for the war with Spain he was rejected. But he was so impressed by the generous action of Admiral Cervera, commanding the Spanish fleet at the battle of Sandiago, Cuba, in rescuing Lieutenant Richmond P. Hobson from death in the bay, that he circulated a petition setting forth the gratitude of the American people and this was widely and generously signed by governors, heads of states and national officers throughout the country. Mr. Bird later presented this memorial to Admiral Cervera. Hobson directed a small .. [illegible].. the channel leading into Sandiago bay and sank it there, in an effort to plug the channel against outcoming Spanish boats, designing thus to bottle up the whole Spanish fleet. But he failed in his mission, only to be rescued from death, as his boat sank, by Spanish sailors directed by their admiral.
Returning to Jeffersonville at the end of this service he moved to Sidney and there established the Sidney Record in 1882, serving as its business manager and editor until his death. Through the last 37 years he has been assisted by his son, Clarence who retains direction of the business.
Active and a man of vision and ideas, Mr. Bird has assisted materially with the growth of the community from its population of about 400 he found it in 1882 to its present population of 3,000 and has become known far and wide, in his particular area and outside wherever the Sidney Record circulated for the volume and achievements.
He was a member of Sidney Lodge, 810, F. & A. M., the Knights of Pythias, the Sidney Chamber of Commerce and other social organizations.
Mrs. Sarah Tuttle Borgardus Bird died many years ago, leaving four children: Arthur, now deceased; Clarence E. Bird of Sidney; Mrs. Charles H. Law of Seattle, Wash., and Frank H. Bird of Norwich.
Arthur Bird, Sr., married in 1895 Miss Lettie Potter of Norwich and she survives, also one child, George M. Bird of Sidney, and a grandson, Arthur D. Bird.
A prayer service will be held at the home on Union street, Friday at 1:30. Funeral services will be conducted at the Congregational Church at 2 p.m. Rev. Edwin R. Holden will officiate. Interment will be make in Prospect Hill Cemetery.
[see photos for original obituary, with portrait]
Rural Times, Otego NY
March 1, 1935:
Arthur Bird, veteran editor and founder of the Sidney Record, died Wednesday morning at 4:05 o'clock at his home on Union Street, Sidney. He suffered a stroke of apoplexy on December 10 followed by a second on Saturday.
Mr. Bird was born in Port-au-Prince the son of the Rev. Mark Baker Bird, Lutheran clergyman and head of missions there for 40 years. His father came from London, England, and his mother, Susan DeJersey Bird, came from the Isle of Jersey. The son was sent to England for private schooling and while yet in his teens was returned to Port-au-Prince. He came to the United States and entered Cornell University. That was the fourth year following the founding of the University.
He was attending this institution, founded by Ezra Cornell in 1865, when he heard Mr. Cornell declare at assembly before his class, in 1869, that "now we have a foreign student enrolled we can rightly lay claim to being a college.". Mr. Bird came from Port-au-Prince, Haiti, in the West Indies, and was always believed that Mr. Cornell was thus referring to his registration.
Leaving Cornell, Mr. Bird went to Jeffersonville, near Liberty, where a brother, Theodore, resided and there he met and married Miss Sarah Tuttle Borgardus shortly after the election of President Hayes. Learning of the appointment of a United States representative to Haiti, he went to Washington and because of his linguistic abilities, being able to speak French and Spanish fluently as well as having a knowledge of other languages, he served for some time as interpreter to the Unites States executive, with headquarters in Port-au-Prince.
Patriotic and desirous of entering the Federal service for the war with Spain he was rejected. But he was so impressed by the generous action of Admiral Cervera, commanding the Spanish fleet at the battle of Sandiago, Cuba, in rescuing Lieutenant Richmond P. Hobson from death in the bay, that he circulated a petition setting forth the gratitude of the American people and this was widely and generously signed by governors, heads of states and national officers throughout the country. Mr. Bird later presented this memorial to Admiral Cervera. Hobson directed a small .. [illegible].. the channel leading into Sandiago bay and sank it there, in an effort to plug the channel against outcoming Spanish boats, designing thus to bottle up the whole Spanish fleet. But he failed in his mission, only to be rescued from death, as his boat sank, by Spanish sailors directed by their admiral.
Returning to Jeffersonville at the end of this service he moved to Sidney and there established the Sidney Record in 1882, serving as its business manager and editor until his death. Through the last 37 years he has been assisted by his son, Clarence who retains direction of the business.
Active and a man of vision and ideas, Mr. Bird has assisted materially with the growth of the community from its population of about 400 he found it in 1882 to its present population of 3,000 and has become known far and wide, in his particular area and outside wherever the Sidney Record circulated for the volume and achievements.
He was a member of Sidney Lodge, 810, F. & A. M., the Knights of Pythias, the Sidney Chamber of Commerce and other social organizations.
Mrs. Sarah Tuttle Borgardus Bird died many years ago, leaving four children: Arthur, now deceased; Clarence E. Bird of Sidney; Mrs. Charles H. Law of Seattle, Wash., and Frank H. Bird of Norwich.
Arthur Bird, Sr., married in 1895 Miss Lettie Potter of Norwich and she survives, also one child, George M. Bird of Sidney, and a grandson, Arthur D. Bird.
A prayer service will be held at the home on Union street, Friday at 1:30. Funeral services will be conducted at the Congregational Church at 2 p.m. Rev. Edwin R. Holden will officiate. Interment will be make in Prospect Hill Cemetery.
[see photos for original obituary, with portrait]
Died February 26, 1935, per NY Health Dept. Records; 4 AM, February 27th, per obituary.
Rural Times, Otego NY
March 1, 1935:
Arthur Bird, veteran editor and founder of the Sidney Record, died Wednesday morning at 4:05 o'clock at his home on Union Street, Sidney. He suffered a stroke of apoplexy on December 10 followed by a second on Saturday.
Mr. Bird was born in Port-au-Prince the son of the Rev. Mark Baker Bird, Lutheran clergyman and head of missions there for 40 years. His father came from London, England, and his mother, Susan DeJersey Bird, came from the Isle of Jersey. The son was sent to England for private schooling and while yet in his teens was returned to Port-au-Prince. He came to the United States and entered Cornell University. That was the fourth year following the founding of the University.
He was attending this institution, founded by Ezra Cornell in 1865, when he heard Mr. Cornell declare at assembly before his class, in 1869, that "now we have a foreign student enrolled we can rightly lay claim to being a college.". Mr. Bird came from Port-au-Prince, Haiti, in the West Indies, and was always believed that Mr. Cornell was thus referring to his registration.
Leaving Cornell, Mr. Bird went to Jeffersonville, near Liberty, where a brother, Theodore, resided and there he met and married Miss Sarah Tuttle Borgardus shortly after the election of President Hayes. Learning of the appointment of a United States representative to Haiti, he went to Washington and because of his linguistic abilities, being able to speak French and Spanish fluently as well as having a knowledge of other languages, he served for some time as interpreter to the Unites States executive, with headquarters in Port-au-Prince.
Patriotic and desirous of entering the Federal service for the war with Spain he was rejected. But he was so impressed by the generous action of Admiral Cervera, commanding the Spanish fleet at the battle of Sandiago, Cuba, in rescuing Lieutenant Richmond P. Hobson from death in the bay, that he circulated a petition setting forth the gratitude of the American people and this was widely and generously signed by governors, heads of states and national officers throughout the country. Mr. Bird later presented this memorial to Admiral Cervera. Hobson directed a small .. [illegible].. the channel leading into Sandiago bay and sank it there, in an effort to plug the channel against outcoming Spanish boats, designing thus to bottle up the whole Spanish fleet. But he failed in his mission, only to be rescued from death, as his boat sank, by Spanish sailors directed by their admiral.
Returning to Jeffersonville at the end of this service he moved to Sidney and there established the Sidney Record in 1882, serving as its business manager and editor until his death. Through the last 37 years he has been assisted by his son, Clarence who retains direction of the business.
Active and a man of vision and ideas, Mr. Bird has assisted materially with the growth of the community from its population of about 400 he found it in 1882 to its present population of 3,000 and has become known far and wide, in his particular area and outside wherever the Sidney Record circulated for the volume and achievements.
He was a member of Sidney Lodge, 810, F. & A. M., the Knights of Pythias, the Sidney Chamber of Commerce and other social organizations.
Mrs. Sarah Tuttle Borgardus Bird died many years ago, leaving four children: Arthur, now deceased; Clarence E. Bird of Sidney; Mrs. Charles H. Law of Seattle, Wash., and Frank H. Bird of Norwich.
Arthur Bird, Sr., married in 1895 Miss Lettie Potter of Norwich and she survives, also one child, George M. Bird of Sidney, and a grandson, Arthur D. Bird.
A prayer service will be held at the home on Union street, Friday at 1:30. Funeral services will be conducted at the Congregational Church at 2 p.m. Rev. Edwin R. Holden will officiate. Interment will be make in Prospect Hill Cemetery.
[see photos for original obituary, with portrait]
Rural Times, Otego NY
March 1, 1935:
Arthur Bird, veteran editor and founder of the Sidney Record, died Wednesday morning at 4:05 o'clock at his home on Union Street, Sidney. He suffered a stroke of apoplexy on December 10 followed by a second on Saturday.
Mr. Bird was born in Port-au-Prince the son of the Rev. Mark Baker Bird, Lutheran clergyman and head of missions there for 40 years. His father came from London, England, and his mother, Susan DeJersey Bird, came from the Isle of Jersey. The son was sent to England for private schooling and while yet in his teens was returned to Port-au-Prince. He came to the United States and entered Cornell University. That was the fourth year following the founding of the University.
He was attending this institution, founded by Ezra Cornell in 1865, when he heard Mr. Cornell declare at assembly before his class, in 1869, that "now we have a foreign student enrolled we can rightly lay claim to being a college.". Mr. Bird came from Port-au-Prince, Haiti, in the West Indies, and was always believed that Mr. Cornell was thus referring to his registration.
Leaving Cornell, Mr. Bird went to Jeffersonville, near Liberty, where a brother, Theodore, resided and there he met and married Miss Sarah Tuttle Borgardus shortly after the election of President Hayes. Learning of the appointment of a United States representative to Haiti, he went to Washington and because of his linguistic abilities, being able to speak French and Spanish fluently as well as having a knowledge of other languages, he served for some time as interpreter to the Unites States executive, with headquarters in Port-au-Prince.
Patriotic and desirous of entering the Federal service for the war with Spain he was rejected. But he was so impressed by the generous action of Admiral Cervera, commanding the Spanish fleet at the battle of Sandiago, Cuba, in rescuing Lieutenant Richmond P. Hobson from death in the bay, that he circulated a petition setting forth the gratitude of the American people and this was widely and generously signed by governors, heads of states and national officers throughout the country. Mr. Bird later presented this memorial to Admiral Cervera. Hobson directed a small .. [illegible].. the channel leading into Sandiago bay and sank it there, in an effort to plug the channel against outcoming Spanish boats, designing thus to bottle up the whole Spanish fleet. But he failed in his mission, only to be rescued from death, as his boat sank, by Spanish sailors directed by their admiral.
Returning to Jeffersonville at the end of this service he moved to Sidney and there established the Sidney Record in 1882, serving as its business manager and editor until his death. Through the last 37 years he has been assisted by his son, Clarence who retains direction of the business.
Active and a man of vision and ideas, Mr. Bird has assisted materially with the growth of the community from its population of about 400 he found it in 1882 to its present population of 3,000 and has become known far and wide, in his particular area and outside wherever the Sidney Record circulated for the volume and achievements.
He was a member of Sidney Lodge, 810, F. & A. M., the Knights of Pythias, the Sidney Chamber of Commerce and other social organizations.
Mrs. Sarah Tuttle Borgardus Bird died many years ago, leaving four children: Arthur, now deceased; Clarence E. Bird of Sidney; Mrs. Charles H. Law of Seattle, Wash., and Frank H. Bird of Norwich.
Arthur Bird, Sr., married in 1895 Miss Lettie Potter of Norwich and she survives, also one child, George M. Bird of Sidney, and a grandson, Arthur D. Bird.
A prayer service will be held at the home on Union street, Friday at 1:30. Funeral services will be conducted at the Congregational Church at 2 p.m. Rev. Edwin R. Holden will officiate. Interment will be make in Prospect Hill Cemetery.
[see photos for original obituary, with portrait]
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