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distinction in the Philippines; and in 1903-

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was commandng quarantine Manila water

supply as major of the second infantry. He now major of the second United States infantry at Fort Logan, Col. Bailey, Henry Turner, educator, author, was born Dec. 9, 1865, in North Scituate, Mass.; where the Bailey family have lived since 1660. He has been a'professor in the Boston evening drawis

ing schools; supervisor of drawing in the public schools of Lowell, Mass.; was an agent of the Massachusetts state board of education; and state instructor in drawing for more than fifteen years. He is widely

known through Reports on Drawing to the state board of education; and is a lecturer on art educational topics. He is editor of The School Arts Book. He is the author of First Year in Drawing; School Sanitation and Decoration; The Blackboard in Sunday School; and miscella-

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neous papers on Art and Education. Bailey, HoUis Russell, lawyer, genealogist, bom Feb. 24, 1852, in North Andover, Mass. He is a successful lawyer of Boston, Mass.; and secretary of the Bailey-Bayley family association. He is the author of The

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Bailey Genealogy. Bailey, Jacob, soldier, was born July 2, 1728, in Newbury, Mass. He settled in Hampstead in 1745 and served as a captain during the French war in 1756. He was with Colonel Munroe in the siege of Fort William Henry; and was among those who escaped the subsequent massacre in 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. He died March 1, 1816, in Newbury, Vt.

Bailey, Jacob Whitman, naturalist, was born April 29, 1811, in Ward, Miss. He is the inventor of Bailey's indicator; and of many improvements in the microscope. His investigations with this instrument, illustrating botany and zoology, gave him great distincHis Microscopic Sketches, together tion. with his collection of about five thousand specimens of algtp, he bequeathed to the Boston society of natural history. He died Feb. 26, 1857, iifWest Point, N.Y'.

James Anthony, showman, was bom in 1847 in Detroit, Mich. The great London circus was bought and added to that of Bailey,

Cooper and Bailey, leading to the firm of and Bailey. He died April 11, 1906, in Vernon, N.Y.

Bamum

James

Bailey,

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E., lawyer, 15, 1822, in

congressman,

Montgomery, Tenn. He was a representative in the Tenn-

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Aug.

essee state legislature in 1853. In 1877-81 he senator. He died Dec. 39, 1855, in Clarksville, Tenn. Bailey, James Montgomery, journalist, author, was born Sept. 25, 1841, in Albany, N. Y. He was widely known at one time as the Danbury News Man. He was among the earliest to exploit a kind of native humor, chief-' ly concerned with local allusion and application. He has had many imitators, whose methods have been much less legitimate than his. He was the author of Life in Danbury;

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England from a Back Window; The Danbury Boom; Mrs. Phillis' Goneness; and They All

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It.

He

died

March

4,

1894, in

Danbu-

ry, Conn.

Bailey, scientist,

James Robinson, educator, chemist, was born Dec. 11, 1868, in Houston,

Texas. Since 1891 he has been a teacher in the Texas academy; and since 1901 has been adjunct professor of chemistry in the Texas academy at Austin. He has made valuable researches on hydrazin acids. Bailey, Jeremiah, lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born about 1785 in Compton, R.I. In 1835-37 he was a representative from Maine to the twenty-fourth congress; and he was collector of customs at Wiseasset in 1849-53. He died in July, 1853, in Wiseasset,

Maine. Bailey, John, soldier, was born Oct. 30, 1730, in Hanover, Mass. He was lieutenantcolonel of the Plymouth regiment at the beginning of the revolutionary war; and succeeded Colonel John Thomas in its command. When the continental army was organized he became colonel of the second Massathusetts regiment, in which command he remained during the war. He died Oct. 37, 1810, in

Hanover, Mass. Bailey, John, state senator, congressman, was born in Norfolk county, Mass. He was a member of the Massachusetts state legislature in 1815-18. In 1833-31 he was a representative from Massachusetts to the eighteenth, nineteenth and twentieth and twentycongresses. He was a state senator in 1831-34. He died June 16, 1835, in Dorches-

first

ter,

Mass.

John M., soldier, lawyer, congressman, was born Aug. 34, 1838, in Bethlehem, Bailey,

N.Y. In 1863 he entered the union army as first

lieutenant.

He was

assistant district

attorney of Albany county in 1865-67; was collector of internal revenue for four years; and in 1874-77 was district attorney. In 1877-81 he was a representative from New York to the forty-fifth and forty-sixth congresses.

Bailey, John M., lawyer, jurist, was born July 11, 1839, in Dillsburg, Pa. In 1872-73 he was a member of the Pennsylvania constitution convention. Since 1895 he has been president judge of the twentieth judicial district of Pennsylvania.