“The History of La Crosse County, Wisconsin”, published: Chicago: 
Western Historical Company. 1881.

Township:  City of La Crosse 


JOHN P. BIRD, Principal of the Third District School of La Crosse; has 
been in his present position since 1876; for one year previous to that, he 
was Principal of the Fifth District School.  He was born in Northampton, 
Mass., in 1845; his father, William Bird, removed to Martin Co., Minn., 
in 1865, and died there in 1879.  Prof. Bird is a graduate of the 
Minnesota State Normal School at Mankato, Class of 1871, and has been 
teaching since that time.  In 1880, he graduated from the National 
School of Elocution and Oratory at Philadelphia.  He was married in 
December, 1879, to Helen R. Hanscom, of La Crosse.




Submitted by:  Diane Scott