BAILEY, JOHN S.

BAILEY, KINGSLEY

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Date: 4/15/2013 at 14:11:48

The 1880 History of Poweshiek County Iowa

Sugar Creek Township

Page 671

BAILEY, JOHN S. - Farmer and stock-raiser, section 4, township 78 north, range 16 west. Among the many men who have beautiful homes in this county, none are more pleasantly located than the subject of this sketch, one mile north of Searsboro and within a few rods of the Central Railroad of Iowa, on a beautiful eminence facing the south. He is a man of much more than ordinary intelligence, is well educated and a very companionable gentleman. He was born in Windsor county, Vermont, on the 7th of June, 1840, where he continued to live and labor on the farm until he was about thirty years of age, except the time spent in attending school, and about one year which he spent in the West. He first came to Iowa in the year 1862, and followed teaching school, teaching two terms at Forest Home, in this county, then returning to Vermont, where he remained until the year 1870, when he removed permanently to this county, and located himself on the farm where he now lives. His farm consists of 180 acres of fine undulating land, which is in a fine state of cultivation, about one-half being seeded down to grass. He has about sixteen acres of a fine young orchard, three or four hundred of his trees now in bearing. He intends to enlarge his orchard by the addition of about four acres more in his south orchard, which is beautifully situated on a northern slope of the hill in front of his fine large two-story house, which presents a beautiful picture to the eye from his front dooryard. His out-buildings are all in good repair. His stock consists of about thirty head of fine cattle, forty head of nice blooded hogs and several head of horses. All bear the marks of thrift, and his beautiful shrubbery, and, in fact, everything on his farm shows him to be a systematic farmer. He was married January 2, 1870, to Miss Hattie L. Kingsley of Windsor county, Vermont, by whom he has three children living: Nellie M., William M. and an infant not yet named. He was educated at Union Academy, New Hampshire, where he attended about three years.