Bailey, Wm., Dr. b 1819

BAILEY, MOONER, MANN

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BAILEY, WM., Dr.
Farmer and stock raiser; Sec. 34; P. O. Newton; was born in Lincolnshire Co., Eng., March 14, 1819; came to New York in 1830; remained five years, carrying on farming; thence to Ohio in 1835; he then took up the study of medicine and surgery in Greentown, Stark Co., and graduated at the University of Lake Erie, now the Starling Medical College, at Columbus, Ohio, in 1846; he practiced his profession in Ohio twenty years; he then moved to Newton, Iowa; practiced one year, and went into the mercantile business, keeping a general store eighteen months, and thence to Boonesboro, and manufactured brick one season, and returned to Newton in 1864; he then went into the saw-milling business; continued it two years and changed to the lumber business, keeping a lumber yard two years; he then put up several buildings, stores and dwelling houses; was one year at building; he then went to Arkansas, and engaged in the cattle trade, and brought back to Iowa a drove of cattle which he butchered and sold; he then went to California; in 1870, he took a general visit in all the entire country, and returned in a year and bought his present farm of 200 acres, valued at $6,000; he now carries on farming and stock raising extensively, and keeps a large number of milch cows and makes cheese; Mr. Bailey has a large number of stock and hogs; his farm is all improved - a bearing orchard, good building, grove, etc. He married Mrs. Ellen MOONER in Iowa, in 1863. She was born in Tioga Co., N.Y., in 1835; she had two children by her first husband - George and Ida, and Mr. Bailey has one child by his first wife - Lucy Victory (she is married to Mortimer MANN, of Newton); they had since their marriage five children; four are living - Ellen Ann, Mary Sophia, William and Margret. He is a member of the A., F. and A. M. Lodge at Newton. Has held the office of President of the School Board four years. Mrs. Bailey is a member of the Catholic Church. ~ " Independence Township Biographies," The History of Jasper County, Iowa, (Chicago: Western Historical Company, 1878)