Edward G. (Gladstone) Baynham (1901–1974) taught American history, civics, and social studies at Crafton High School from 1945 to 1965. After receiving a master's degree in law from Duquesne University and a license to practice law in Virginia, he received a PhD in history from the University of Pittsburgh in 1944. His dissertation, “The Early Development of Music in Pittsburgh,”1 was the basis for a larger work, A History of Pittsburgh Music from 1758 to 1958,2 which would become his trademark legacy for codifying Pittsburgh's musical history. For twenty-five years, Baynham directed the choir at Knoxville United Presbyterian Church, where he was an elder and church schoolteacher. He was a member of the Mendelssohn Choir, Masonic Lodge 269, and other Masonic organizations. At the time of his death, he was writing about the influence of television on viewers for The Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians. He is buried, along with his sister, Urania, in Pleasant Hills Cemetery in Jackson Center, Pennsylvania.

• 1. “The Early Development of Music in Pittsburgh” (PhD diss., University of Pittsburgh, 1944).
• 2. A History of Pittsburgh Music from 1758 to 1958, Vol. 1 and Vol. 2 (Pittsburgh: Edward G. Baynham, 1970).