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Bailey, Henry Turner

educator, author, was born Dec. 9, 1865, in North Scituate, Mass., where the Bailey family have lived since 1660. He received the rudiments of his education in the public schools of his native city, and graduated from the Massachusetts State Normal Art school of Boston. He has been a professor in the Boston Evening Drawing schools; supervisor of drawing in the public schools of Lowell, Mass.; was an agent of the state board of education, Mass.; and state supervisor of drawing.

He is widely known through Reports on Drawing to the state board of education, and is a popular lecturer on art educational topics. He is the author of First Year in Drawing; and miscellaneous papers on Art and Education.