Jean Katherine Baird (1872-1918) was the author of: Danny (1906), Cash Three (1906), Little Rhody (1907), The Honor Girl (1907), Elizabeth Hobart at Exeter Hall (1907), Sixty-Five on Time (1909), The Coming of Hester (the first book in the 'Hester' series) (1909), Hester's Counterpart: A Story of Boarding School Life (1910), The Boy Next Door (1910), The Heir of Barachah (1911), Hester's Wage-Earning (1912), The Girl Beautiful (1917) and The Little Girl of Miss Eliza's: A Story for Young People (1920).