Bailey, George Howard – Bailey, Joseph W
Bailey, George Howard
lawyer, was born Feb. 1, 1867, in Washington county, Ohio. In 1894 he graduated from the Michigan university, and has since attained prominence as an able lawyer of Red Lodge, Mont.
Bailey, George Milroy
journalist, capitalist, was born Oct. 8, 1862, in Ogdensburg, N. Y. He is president of the Bailey Investment company; of the Buffalo-Marion Land company; and of the Niagara Falls Tunnel company. He is vice-president of the Hudor Lithia company; of the J. J. George Furniture company; and of the Buffalo Depew Land company; and secretary of the Oatman Produce company, and of the Depew Terminal Land company. He publishes a successful monthly paper entitled The Buffalo Presbyterian News.
Bailey, Gilbert Stephen
clergyman, author, was born Oct. 17, 1822, in Dalton, Pa. After graduating from the Oberlin college, Ohio, he started a select school at Waverly, which soon grew into Madison academy, with one hundred students. He subsequently resigned this charge and was ordained to the ministry; and later filled a pastorate in Pomona, Cal. Besides numerous tracts and uncollected poems he has published a History of the Illinois River Baptist Association; Caverns of Kentucky; Manual of Baptism; The Trials and Victories of Religious Liberty in America; Three Discourses on the History, Wonders, and Excellence of the Bible; The Word and Works of God; Prize Discourse on Slander; and Ingersollism Exposed.
Bailey, Goldsmith F
lawyer, congressman, was born July 17, 1823, in Westmoreland, N. H. He was admitted to the bar in 1848; in 1856 was elected to the legislature of Massachusetts; and in 1858-60 to the senate of the state. He was elected a representative from Massachusetts to the thirty-seventh congress. He died May 8, 1862, in Fitchburg, Mass.
Bailey, Guilford Dudley
soldier, was born June 4, 1834, in Martinsburg, N. Y. When the civil war began he was stationed at Fort Brown, Texas, but, with his immediate superior, Capt. Stoneman, refused to surrender when Gen. Twiggs attempted to give up his entire command to the confederates, and effected his escape into Mexico. A monument has been raised to his memory in the cemetery at Poughkeepsie. He was killed in action May 31, 1862.
Bailey, Hanna Johnston
president of the Maine Woman's Suffrage association, was born July 5, 1839, in Cornwall-on-the-Hudson, N. Y. She received her education at a denominational boarding school, and subsequently followed the profession of teaching for ten years. She has been the world's and national superintendent of the department of peace and arbitration in the Woman's Christian Temperance union.
For ten years she was treasurer of a foreign missionary society, and is now treasurer of the National Council of Women. Mrs. Bailey was one of the judges in the department of liberal arts at the World's Columbian Exposition; and she is now the honored president of the Maine Woman's Suffrage association.
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.
Bailey, Horace W
commissioner of fisheries and game for Vermont, was born Jan. 16, 1852, in Newbury, Vt. He graduated from Newbury seminary, and during 1886-96 was clerk of his native city and superintendent of schools. During 1894-96 he was a member of the Vermont state senate, and served with distinction in that body. In 1894 he was appointed state commissioner of fisheries and game for Vermont.
Bailey, Jacob
soldier, was born July 2, 1728, in Newbury, Mass. He settled in Hampstead in 1745, and served as a captain during the French war in 1756.
He was with Col. Munroe in the siege of Fort William Henry, and was among those who escaped the subsequent massacre in 1757. He was also present at the capture of Ticonderoga and Crown Point in 1759. In 1764 he removed to Vermont, and there obtained a township. Later he was appointed brigadier-general of militia by the state of New York. During the revolutionary war he was commissary-general of the northern department. He died March 1, 1816, in Newbury, Vt.
Bailey, Jacob Whitman
naturalist, was born April 29, 1811, in Ward, Miss. He is the inventor of Bailey's Indicator and of many improvements in the microscope. His investigations with this instrument, illustrating botany and zoölogy, gave him great distinction. His Microscopic Sketches, together with his collection of about 4,500 specimens of algæ, he bequeathed to the Boston Society of Natural History. He died Feb. 26, 1857, in West Point, N. Y.
Bailey, James Alderson
JR., lawyer, legislator, state senator, was born March 25, 1867, in Arlington, Mass. In 1888 he graduated from Harvard college with the degree of A. B.; and subsequently from the Harvard Law school, from which institution he received the degrees of LL. B. and A. M. He is a successful lawyer, and has a large practice in his native city. He has served with distinction as a representative in the Massachusetts state legislature; and also as a state senator.
Bailey, James Anthony
showman, was born in 1847 in Detroit, Mich.
The Great London circus was bought and added to that of Cooper and Bailey, leading to the firm of Barnum and Bailey.
Bailey, James E
lawyer, congressman, was born Aug. 15, 1822, in Montgomery, Tenn. He was educated at the Clarksville academy and the university of Tennessee; studied law; and was admitted to the bar at Clarksville, Tenn., in 1840. He was a representative in the state legislature in 1853; and was elected a senator of the United States from Tennessee to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Andrew Johnson, serving during 1877-81. He died Dec. 29, 1885, in Clarksville, Tenn.
Bailey, James Montgomery
journalist, author, was born Sept. 25, 1841, in Albany, N. Y. Widely known at one time as The Danbury News Man. He was a journalist of Danbury, Conn., who was among the earliest to exploit a kind of native humor, chiefly concerned with local allusion and application. He has had many imitators, whose methods have been much less legitimate than his. He was the author of Life in Danbury; England from a Back Window; The Danbury Boom; Mr. Phillis' Goneness; and They All Do It. He died March 4, 1894.
Bailey, James Stanton
manufacturer, was born Dec. 9, 1817, in Lebanon, Conn. He established the house of Tuttle and Bailey, manufacturers of registers and ventilators; and on the death of Charles Tuttle became senior partner.
Bailey, Jeremiah
lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born at Little Compton, R. I. He graduated at Brown university, and studied law; was a member of the Maine legislature from 1811-14 and a judge of probate from 1814-35. He was a representative in congress from Lincoln county, Maine, from 1835-37 and was collector of customs at Wiscasset from 1849-53. He died in July, 1853.
Bailey, John
state senator, congressman, was born in Norfolk county, Mass. He was a member of the Massachusetts legislature from 1815-18, and a representative in congress from Massachusetts from 1823-31. He was a state senator in 1831-34. He died June 16, 1835, in Dorchester, Mass.
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
soldier, was born April 28, 1827, in Salem, Ohio. When the civil war broke out he entered the federal army as captain of the fourth Wisconsin infantry. He accompanied the army in the Red river campaign, and it was during this expedition that Bailey achieved the remarkable engineering feat which made him one of the heroes of the war.
He received the brevet of brigadier-general on June 7 and was promoted colonel on June 30, 1864. He died March 21, 1867.
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.
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.