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 HBRRINGSHAW'S LIBRARY OF AMERICAN BIOGRAPHY. Bailey, Ebenezer, educator, poet, was born 25, 1795, in West Newbury, Mass. In 1838 he established a boys' school at Roxbury, which in 1839 was moved to Lynn. He was at various times a member of city council of Boston; director of the Home of reform; president of the Boston lyceum, and director of the Boston mechanics' institute. He died Aug. 25, 1839, in Lynn, Mass. Bailey, Edgar Henry Summerfield, educator, author, was born Sept. 17, 1848, in Middlefield, Conn. Since 1883 he has been professor of chemistry at the university of Kansas. He is the author of Guide to Qualitative Chemical Analysis. Bailey, EUene Alice, inventor, was born in Pond Fort, Mo. One of her principal inventions is the Dart needle, for sewing on shoe and other buttons. Her numerous inventions have proved not only useful and practical,

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Bailey, Mrs. Florence Merriam, litterateur, author, was born Aug. 8, 1863, in Locust Grove, N.Y. She is the wife of Vernon Bailey of Washington, D.C. She is the author of Birds Through an Opera Glass Birds of VilSummer in a Mormon lage and Field; village; and Handbook of Birds of Western United States. Bailey, Frederick Randolph, physician, author, was born Oct. 26, 1871, in Elizabeth, N. J. Since 1896 he has practiced medicine in Elizabeth, N.J. He is the author of Textbook of Histology. Bailey, Gamaliel, journalist, abolitionist, was born Dec. 3, 1807, in Mount Holly, N.H. He was editor of the first number of the National Era, published in 1847 under the auspices of the American and foreign anti-slav;

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ery society. In 1848 an angry mob laid siege to the ofB.ce 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. He died June 5, 1859, while on a voyage to Europe for his health. Bailey, George Wicks, lawyer, jurist, was born March 8, 1856, in St. Louis, Mo. For four years he was judge of the county court of Lorimer county, Col. Since 1905 he has been associate justice of the state supreme court of Colorado. Bailey, Gilbert Stephen, educator, clergyman, author, was born Oct. 22, 1822, in Abington, Pa. After graduating from Oberlin college of Ohio, he started a select school at Waverly, which soon grew into Madison academy. He subsequently resigned this charge and was ordained to the ministry; and later filled a pastorate in Pomona, Cal. His name is a historic one among western baptists. Besides numerous tracts and uncollected poems he published a History of the Illinois River Baptist Association; Caverns of Kentucky; Manual of Baptism; The Trials and Victories of Religious Liberty in America; Three Discourses on the History, Wonders, and Excellence of the Bible; The

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of God; Prize Discourse on Slander; and Ingersollism Exposed. He

died Sept. 28, 1891, in Pomona, Cal. Bailey, Goldsmith F., lawyer, state senator, congressman, was born July 17, 1833, in Westmoreland, N.H. In 1856 he was elected to the state legislature of Massachusetts; and in 1858-60 to the state senate. In 186163 he was a representative from Massachusetts to the thirty-seventh congress. He died May 8, 1862, in Fitchburg, Mass. Bailey, Guilford Dudley, soldier, was born June 4, 1834, in Martinsburg, N.Y. When the civil war began he was stationed at Fort Brown, Texas; but, with his immediate superior, Captain Stoneman, refused to surrender when General Twiggs attempted to give up his entire command to the confederates; and effected his escape into Mexico. monument has been raised to his memory in the cemetery at Poughkeepsie, N.Y. He was killed in action May 31, 1862. Bailey, Mrs. Hannah Johnston, superintendent of the department of peace and arbitration in the world's and national woman's christian temperance union, was born July 5, 1839, in Cornwall-

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on-the-Hudson, in N.Y. She received her education at a denominational boarding school; and subsequently fol-

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of teaching for two years. In 1868 she married Moses Bailey, a successful oil cloth

manufacturer at Winthrop, Maine, where she has resided ever since. Mrs. Bailey was one of the judges in the department of liberal arts at the World's Columbian exposition. For ten years she was treasurer of a foreign missionary society; and was treasurer of the national council of Women during a term of four years. She was president of the Maine equal suffrage association 1891-97, but is best known by her work along lines of temperance and peace. Bailey, Harry Lee, soldier, was bom Oct. 4, 1854, in Dalton, Ohio. In 1872 he was an honor graduated from the Lima union high school; in 1876 graduated from the West Point military acade-

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Myer, Va. In 1878 he

was aide de camp in Bannock Indian war; was brevetted for coolness and bravery at the battle of Clearwater; and received the brevet of first lieutenant. In 1895-96 he was quartermaster on the staff of General Miles. He was captain in the twenty-first infantry at the battle of Santiago; served with