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136 nition from Fort Union, now Lewisburg. After the Indian war, during which her second husband was killed, she lived with her son, William Trotter, on Kanawha river, and removed with hitn in 1818 to Ohio, where, in old age, she taught school, displaying great mental and physical vigor.

BAILEY, Anna Warner, known as "Mother Bailey," patriot, b. in Groton, Conn., 11 Oct., 1758; d. there in 1850. She was the wife of Capt. Elijah Bailey, of Groton. She witnessed the massacre at Fort Griswold on 6 Sept., 1781, and on 7 Sept. walked to the scene of carnage, three miles, to search for an uncle, whom she found fatally wounded. At his request to see his wife and child she ran home, saddled a horse for the feeble mother, and carried the child herself to the dying patriot. In July, 1818, when the British threatened to attack New London, Mother Bailey rendered great aid to its defenders by tearing up flannel garments for cartridges.

BAILEY, Ebenezer, educator, b. in West Newbury, Mass., 25 June, 1795 ; d. in Lynn, Mass., 5 Aug., 1839. He was graduated at Yale in 1817, after which he taught school, and also entered his name as a law student. Afterward he became a tutor in Virginia, but in 1819 returned to Newburyport, and there opened a private school for young ladies. In 1823 he was appointed master of the Franklin grammar school, and in 1825 teacher of the Boston high school for girls. This school proved unsuccessful, and Josiah Quincy, then mayor, pronounced it an entire failure. Mr. Bailey at once replied with vigor in a "Review of the Mayor's Report upon the High School for Girls" (Boston, 1828). Subsequently he had charge of the young ladies' high school, and in 1830 was active in the establishment of the American Institute of Education, afterward filling various offices in that body. In 1838 he established a boys' school at Roxbury, which, in 1839, was moved to Lynn. Mr. Bailey was the successful competitor for the prize ode delivered at the Boston theatre in commemoration of Washington's death. Afterward he was on several occasions poet at the Φ Β Κ anniversaries of Harvard. Mr. Bailey was at various times a member of the city council of Boston, director of the home of reform, president of the Boston lyceum, and director of the Boston mechanics' institute. He was a frequent contributor to the Boston "Courier" and other periodicals, and edited "The Young Ladies' Class-Book" (Boston, 1831); "Blakewell's Philosophical Conversations" (1832); and "First Lessons on Algebra" (1833).

BAILEY, Gamaliel, journalist, b. in Mount Holly, N. J., 3 Dec, 1807; d. at sea, 5 June, 1859. He studied medicine in Philadelphia, and after obtaining his degree in 1828 sailed as a ship's doctor to China. He began his editorial career in the office of the " Methodist Protestant " in Baltimore, but in 1831 he removed to Cincinnati, where he served as hospital physician during the cholera epidemic. His sympathies being excited on the occasion of the expulsion of a number of students on account of anti-slavery views from Lane seminary, he became an active agitator against slavery, and in 1836 he associated himself with James G. Birney in the conduct of the "Cincinnati Philanthropist," the earliest anti-slavery newspaper in the west, of which in 1837 he became sole editor. Twice in that year, and again in 1841, the printing-office was sacked by a mob. He issued the paper regularly until after the presidential election of 1844, when he was selected to direct the publication of a new abolitionist organ at Washington. The first number of the "National Era," published under the auspices of the American and foreign anti-slavery society, appeared 1 Jan., 1847. In 1848 an angry mob laid siege to the office for three days, and finally separated under the influence of an eloquent harangue by the editor. The "Era," in which "Uncle Tom's Cabin" originally appeared, ably presented the opinions of the anti-slavery party. Dr. Bailey died while on a voyage to Europe for his health.

BAILEY, Gilbert Stephen, clergyman, b. in Dalton, Pa., 17 Oct., 1822. He was educated at Oberlin, and, after studying theology, became a Baptist clergyman, holding pastorates in various places in New York and Illinois till 1863, when he was made superintendent of the Baptist missions in Illinois, and from 1867 till 1875 was secretary of the Baptist Theological Union in Chicago. The system of "minister's institutes," now prevalent in the Baptist denomination, was originated by him in 1864, and they were subsequently conducted by him in Chicago, Upper Alton, and Bloomingdale, Ill. He resumed his preaching and had charge of churches in Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Iowa, was a secretary of the Italian Bible and Sunday-school mission in 1880-'1, and missionary in southern California in 1885-'6. Besides numerous tracts and uncollected poems, he has published a "History of the Illinois River Baptist Association" (New York, 1857); "Caverns of Kentucky" (Chicago, 1863); "Manual of Baptism" (Philadelphia, 1863); "The Trials and Victories of Religious Liberty in America" (1876); "Three Discourses on the History, Wonders, and Excellence of the Bible (Ottumwa, 1882); "The Word and Works of God" (Philadelphia, 1883); "Prize Discourse on Slander" (Washington, 1884); and "Ingersollism Exposed" (Ottumwa, 1884).

BAILEY, Guilford Dudley, soldier, b. in Martinsburg, N. Y., 4 June, 1834; killed in action, 31 May, 1862. He was graduated at West Point in 1856, and assigned to the 2d artillery. He served on frontier and garrison duty, was at Fort Leavenworth during the Kansas disturbances of 1857-'9, and at West Point as instructor for a short time in 1859. 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. Reporting for duty as soon as he could reach the north, he was sent with Hunt's battery to the relief of Fort Pickens, Fla. Returning on account of sickness, he organized and was appointed colonel of the 1st N. Y. light artillery volunteers (25 Sept., 1861), joined the Army of the Potomac, was detailed as chief of artillery in Gen. Casey's division during the Peninsular campaign, and was killed among his guns at the battle of Seven Pines. A monument has been raised to his memory in the cemetery at Poughkeepsie.

BAILEY, Jacob, soldier, b. in Newbury, Mass., 2 July, 1728: d. in Newbury, Vt., 1 March, 1816. 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 on 7 Aug., 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, and in that capacity did much in benefiting the cause of the Americans.