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Bailey, John M – Bailey, William Whitman

Bailey, John M

lawyer, congressman, was born Aug. 24, 1838, in Bethlehem, N. Y. He graduated at Union college in 1861; studied law; in 1862 entered the union army as first lieutenant, and in 1864 commenced the practice of law. He was assistant district attorney of Albany county in 1865-67; was collector of internal revenue four years; in 1874 was elected district attorney and served three years, and was elected a representative from New York to the forty-fifth and forty-sixth congresses.

Bailey, Joseph W

lawyer, congressman, was born Oct. 6, 1863, in Copiah county, Miss. He was admitted to the bar in 1883 and served as a district elector on the Cleveland and Hendricks ticket in 1884. He removed to Texas in 1885 and located in Gainesville. He served as elector for the state at large on the democratic ticket in 1888; was elected to the fifty-second, fifty-third, fifty-fourth, and was re-elected to the fifty-fifth congress as 'a democrat.

Bailey, Liberty Hyde

educator, lecturer, author, was born March 15, 1858, in South Haven, Mich. He is a prominent horticulturist and for many years was professor of horticulture and landscape gardening in the Michigan Agricultural college. He is the author of American Grape Training; Cross-Breeding and Hybridization; Field Notes on Apple Culture; Annals of Horticulture; The Horticulturist Rule-Book; The Nursery-Book; A Complete Guide to the Multiplication and Pollination of Plants; and Talks Afield About Plants; Plant Breeding.

Bailey, Loring Woart

educator, author, was born Sept. 28, 1839, in West Point, N. Y. He is a professor of natural history in the university of New Brunswick, and the author of Mines and Minerals of New Brunswick; Geology of Southern New Brunswick; and Elementary Natural History.

Bailey, Martin B

lawyer, legislator, was born Jan. 22, 1858, in Vermillion county, Ill. He was chief of the law de.. partment in the pension bureau during Harrison's administration, and was a member of the Illinois state legislature in 1895.

Bailey, Norman

soldier, merchant, state senator, was born Jan. 1, 1822, in New York. He was captain in the service during the war, and in 1861-62 was a member of the Michigan state senate.

Bailey, Sara Lord

elocutionist, was born Sept. 9, 1856, in England. In 1888 she graduated from the Boston School of Oratory and has since attained success as a teacher of elocution and voice culture in numerous large institutions.

Bailey, Theodorus

United States senator, was born Oct. 12, 1758, in Dutchess county, N. Y. He was a representative in congress from New York from 1793-97, and again from 1799-1803. He was a senator in congress from 1803-04, when he resigned and was appointed postmaster of New York city. He died Sept. 6, 1828, in New York city.

Bailey, Theodorus

naval officer, was born April 12, 1805, in Chateaugay, N. Y. After serving on the frigate Constellation, in which he again sailed round the world, he was placed in command of the storeship Lexington in 1846, in which, on the breaking out of the Mexican war, he conveyed to California, by way of Cape Horn, an artillery company and several officers who afterward became famous. He died Feb. 10, 1877, in Washington, D. C.

Bailey, William Whitman

botanist, author, was born Feb. 22, 1843, in West Point, N. Y., and is a brother of L.

W. Bailey. He is a professor of botany at Brown university and the author of New England Wild Flowers and Their Seasons; Among Rhode Island Wild Flowers; and Botanical Collector's Hand- Book.