Louise Birt Baynes
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Louise Birt O'Connell Baynes (1876 – February 25, 1958) was an American photographer and naturalist.
Baynes was born as Louise Birt O'Connell in Halifax, Nova Scotia, in 1876.[1][2] She married naturalist Ernest Harold Baynes on April 24, 1901, after a seven-year engagement.[3][4] By 1904, she was living in Meriden, New Hampshire, where she would live most of the rest of her life.[1] In Meriden, she aided her husband in his work and in the establishment of the Meriden Bird Club and sanctuary.[5] Baynes and her husband were both members of the Cornish Equal Suffrage League.[6]
Bayne's husband, Ernest, died in 1925.[3] Baynes died on February 25, 1958, in Philadelphia.[5] Her ashes were dispersed in Meriden in the same spot as her husband's ashes.[5]
