Bailey, Charles L.

BAILEY

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Date: 6/26/2021 at 14:57:02

History of Warren County, Iowa from Its Earliest Settlement to 1908, by Rev. W. C. Martin, Clarke Publishing Co., Chicago, Illinois, 1908, p.882

CHARLES L. BAILEY
Charles L. Bailey, a stock-raiser and general farmer of Virginia Township, is a Virginian by birth, having been born in Page County, Virginia July 29, 1849. Both of his parents are still living in the Old Dominion, his father now being eighty-one years of age and his mother seventy-nine. George Bailey, the father of our subject, is of Irish decent. He was a soldier in the Civil War, where he served four years in Company G, Tenth Virginia Volunteer Infantry, in which company he enlisted as a private and was promoted to the rank of orderly sergeant. His wife was Ann Jasper, who is of Dutch descent. Both are natives of Virginia. The father is an auctioneer, in which vocation he has been engaged since the year 1850.
Charles L. Bailey passed his boyhood and early youth at home, receiving his education in the local schools. When eighteen years of age he left home, going to Cass County, Illinois where he engaged in farming. In 1892 he removed to Iowa and farmed in Otter Township, Warren County, until 1898 when he purchased his present farm of one hundred and sixty-five acres, one hundred and sixty acres of which is located on section 8 and five acres, a wood lot, on section 17, all in Virginia Township. The place was but slightly improved at the time of its coming into his possession, but it possessed the main requisite for converting it into a well improved, profitable place – that is rich soil – and under Mr. Bailey’s direction and management it has been developed into one of the best farms in the township. In addition to general farming Mr. Bailey raises pure-bred shorthorn cattle and Poland China hogs.
While living in Cass County, Illinois Mr. Bailey was married to Miss Mary Bailey, a distant relative, who like himself, is a native of Virginia, her birth having occurred October 6, 1851. She is the daughter of Abraham and Sarah (Smith) Bailey, both of whom are still living in Cass County, Illinois, her father having attained to the venerable age of eighty-three years and her mother seventy-eight years. Unto Mr. and Mrs. Bailey were born twelve children, as follows: Archie Lee, a farmer near Atkinson, Nebraska, who married Clara Smith; Joseph Edgar, who lives at home with his parents; Cora Bell, the wife of Thomas Scott, a farmer of Otter Township; Flora May, the wife of Walter Kimes, a farmer of Virginia Township; Robert Franklin; Ruben Wesley, Ada Ellen, and Grace Bryan, all of whom are at home, and four who died in infancy, or in early childhood.
Mr. Bailey’s political allegiance is given to the Democratic Party. For three years he has been president of the school board in his district. Both he and his wife are prominent members of the Christian Church. In them the community recognizes the class of citizens which a country most needs to establish and perpetuate the permanency of its growth and development.