Bayles, James C
soldier, lecturer, journalist, author, was born July 3, 1845, in New York city. In 1870 he became editor of the Iron Age; and in 1874 established The Metal Worker. He has delivered lectures on sanitary topics in New York, and in all of the prominent cities of the Union, and is the author of the first standard American work on the Mechanics of Hygiene, House Drainage and Water Service. In 1883 he was elected president of the New Jersey State Sanitary association, and was appointed a commissioner to devise a system of sewers and sanitary improvements for the city of Trenton.