Robert Baird (clergyman)

He was born in Fayette County, Pennsylvania, near Pittsburgh, and graduated at Jefferson College in 1818 and at Princeton Theological Seminary in 1822.

[2][3][4] In 1840, he worked with temperance activists Peter Wieselgren and George Scott as well as Läsare (Readers) Lars Paul Esbjörn and Carl Olof Rosenius in Sweden.

[5] In 1842, while in Geneva, Baird wrote Religion in America, first published in Glasgow, though he revised and expanded it through several printings in the United States, with the edition of 1856 being the most complete.

In this work of almost seven hundred pages, Baird argued that revivalism was a positive feature of American religious experience.

Among his other published works are a "View of the Valley of the Mississippi" (1832); "History of the Temperance Societies" (1836); "Visit to Northern Europe" (1841)" "Protestantism in Italy" (Boston, 1845); " Impressions and Experiences of the West Indies and North America in 1849" (Philadelphia, 1850), revised, with a supplement, in 1855; "History of the Albigenses, Waldenses, and Vandois."