BAILEY, E. S.

BAILEY

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Date: 10/2/2001 at 19:57:57

From the book "The History of Clinton County Iowa" by L. P. Allen (1879) Pages 669-697
Biographical Sketches of Clinton Residents

E. S. BAILEY, attorney and counselor at law, Post Office Block; is a native of Ashtabula, Ohio; he attended school there; entered Union College, and graduated in 1849; he studied law at Hamilton and Syracuse, N.Y. and was admitted to the bar in 1853; he came to Iowa, and located in Clinton Co., Nov. 10, 1855, and engaged in the practice of law at De Witt. During the war, he was commissioned Paymaster in the army, and served three years, and was mustered out April 30,
1866; he returned to Clinton Co., and since then, has practiced law here. Maj. Bailey has been attorney for the C. & N. W. R. R. since 1867.