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 HBRRINGSHAWS LIBRARY OF AMERICAN BIOGRAPHY. John William, clergyman, college was born March 26, 1822, in Marlboro county, N.Y. He was educated in the academy at Phillips Bailey, president,

Bailey, Joseph Weldon, lawyer, congressman, United States senator, was born Oct. 6, 1863, in Copiah county, Miss. He received a

education thorough and in 1883 was admitted to the bar. In 1885 he moved to Texas; and took up the practice of law in Gainesville. In 1888 he

Andover, Mass. at the Williams college; and

at the Union theological

seminary of New City. For twelve

York

years he was pastor presbyterian the church at Galesburg. 111.; and in the second year of his ministry he became a professor at Knox college; being acting president in 1862. In 1871 he was appointed president of Blackburn university of Carlinville, 111. He was successful in having a law passed prohibiting saloons within a certain radius of the university. Bailey Joseph, legislator, congressman, was born March 18, 1810, in Chester county, Pa. In 1839-45 and 1850-54 he was a member of the Pennsylvania state senate. In 1861-65 he was a representative from Pennsylvania to the thirty-seventh and thirty-eighth congresses as a democrat. He died in Perry county, Pa. Bailey, Joseph, soldier, farmer, was born April 28, 1827, in Salem, Ohio. When the civil war broke out he entered the federal army as captain in the fourth regiment Wisconsin infantry. He accompanied the army in the Red river campaign; and it was during this expedition that Bailey achieved the remarkable engineering feat which made him one of the heroes of the war. He received the brevet of brigadier-general. He died March 21, 1867, in Newton county. Mo. Bailey, Joseph Mead, lawyer, jurist, was born June 22, 1833, in Middlebury, Vt. He was a member of the Illinois state legislature in 1866-70; and was presidential elector in 1876. He was chosen a judge in the thirteenth judicial circuit in 1877; became judge of the first division of the appellate court in 1878; and chief justice of that court in 1879. He became a trustee of the university of Chicago in 1878. He died Dec. 16, 1895, in Freeport, Dl. Bailey, Leon Orlando, lawyer, statesman, was bom June 21, 1857, in Wellsboro, Pa. He was educated at Cornell university; and soon attained success in the practice of law. In 1885-89 he was a member of the Indiana state senate; for four years he was first assistant attorney-general for the state of Indiana; and for two years was first assistant United States attorney for the district of Indiana. For a term of two years he was corporation counsel for the city of Indianapolis; and in 1898 was nominee of the democratic party for congress from the seventh congressional district of Indiana. In 1902 he removed to New York City and has since been there engaged in the practice of law. of



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served as elector for the state at large on the democratic ticket. In 1891-1901 he was a representative from Texas to the fifty-second, fifty-third, fiftyfourth, flfty-tit'th and fifty-sixth congresses as a democrat; and on the organization of the fifty-fifth congress in 1897 he was the democratic nominee for speaker of the house of representatives. In 1901 he was chosen United States senator; and in 1907 was reelected United States senator for term ending in 1913. Bailey,

Lepha

Eliza, lecturer, prohibition-,

was born

Jan. 21, 1844, in Battle Creek, Mich. For many years she has been secretary of the Woman's christian temperance union ; of Reform club Sovereigns of industry; and of the Independent order of good templars. She has delivered hundreds of lectures on temperance and reform subjects; and is one of the most talented leaders in the field of prohibition. She is the author of several works in prose and verse. ist,

Bailey, Liberty Hyde, educator, lecturer, author, was born March 15, 1858, in South Haven, Mich. For many years he was professor of horticulture and landscape gardening in the Michigan agricultural college; in 18891903 was professor of horticulture in Cornell university of Ithaca, N.Y. and is now director of the New York state college of agriculture at Cornell university. He was appointed by President Roosevelt as chairman of the commission on country life. He is the author of Field Notes on Apple Culture; Annals of Horticulture; the Horticulturist RuleBook; the Nursery -Book ; Talks Afield;

Plant-Breeding; The Pruning-Book



Garden-

Making; Practical Garden-Book; Principles of Fruit-Growing; Principles of VegetableGardening; Principles of Agriculture; Evolution of Native Fruits; Survival of the Unlike; Lessons with Plants; Cyclopaedia of American Horticulture, in four volumes En;

American Agriculture, in four volumes; The State and the Farmer; Poems; and other works. cyclopaedia of