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Bailey, Joseph Mead

jurist, was born June 22, 1833, in Middlebury, Vt. He graduated from the university of Rochester, N. Y., in 1854, and in 1856 began the practice of law at Freeport, Ill. He was a member of the Illinois legislature in 1866-70 and presidential elector of the same state in 1876. He was chosen a judge in the thirteenth judicial circuit in 1877; judge of the first division appellate court in 1878; and chief justice of that court in 1879. He became a trustee of the university of Chicago in 1878.