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BAGLEY.BAILEY. corporations and banks. From 1868 to to 1870 he acted as chairman of the Republican state committee, and in 1872 was elected governor of Michigan. He was re-elected in 1874 and served. 1873-77. As governor he established a fish commission, a board of health, placed the boys in the reform schools on their honor, and introduced other reforms. He was married in 1835 to Frances E., daughter of the Rev. Samuel Newberry of Vermont. She was a member of the English society for the promotion of Hellenic study, of the Archæological institute of America and the Anthropological society of Washington, and of the Egyptian exploration society. She died in 1898. He died in San Francisco, Cal., July 27, 1881. BAGLEY, Worth, naval officer, was born in Raleigh, N.C., April 6, 1874; son of Maj. William H. and Adelaide Anne (Worth) Bagley; grandson of Col. William H. Bagley; great-grandson of William Bagley, a soldier in the war of 1812, and great2-grandson of Thomas Bagley, who served in the Revolutionary war. His father served in the Confederate army, 1861-'65, and was clerk of the supreme court of North Carolina, and his mother was a daughter of Gov. Jonathan and Martitia (Daniel) Worth. He gained admission to the U.S. naval academy by competition in a large class, all his seniors. He was appointed in 1889, reappointed in 1891; was graduated in 1895 and joined the receiving ship Vermont. He was assigned successively to the Montgomery, July 23, 1895; Texas, Oct. 8, 1895; Maine, Jan. 20, 1895, and Texas, July 20, 1896; was promoted ensign July 1, 1897, and assigned to the Indiana. He was transferred to the U.S. battleship Maine Aug. 17, 1897, and thence to the torpedo-boat Winslow, as second in command, entering upon his duties Dec. 28, 1897. He was the first American naval officer killed in the Spanish-American war, meeting his death on board the Winslow, in the naval engagement in Cardenas Bay, Cuba, May 12, 1898. BAILEY, Gamaliel, abolitionist, was born in Mount Holly. N.J., Dec. 3, 1807. He was graduated in medicine in 1828, served as ship's doctor on a voyage to China and engaged in newspaper work on the Methodist Protestant at Baltimore, Md. He was a hospital .surgeon at Cincinnati, Ohio, during the cholera outbreak in 1831, where he became an abolitionist and sympathized with the anti-slavery agitation among the students of Lane seminary, which resulted in the resignation of Lyman Beecher and many students, and the founding of Oberlin college. In 1836 in connection with James G. Birney, he established the Cincinnati Philanthropist, to advocate unconditional emancipation. Of this journal he became chief editor. It was the earliest anti-slavery organ in the west, and was regularly issued every week for seven years, although on three distinct occasions its office was raided by a mob, and its type and material were scattered or destroyed. In 1846 he was selected by the American anti-slavery society to conduct the National Era, a new abolition organ issued in Washington, D. C. In the management of this journal he showed rare editorial ability; and he was zealously seconded by the ablest writers in the anti- slavery ranks, among whom was Harriet Beecher Stowe, whose "Uncle Tom's Cabin" was first published in the National Era. The journal attained a wide circulation, and had a prosperous career, though its office was several times threatened with destruction. In 1848 it was for three days besieged by a mob, which was only finally dispersed by the remarkable coolness and address of Mr. Bailey. He died before he could see the consummation of the great agitation he had been, largely instrumental in arousing. His death occurred at sea, June 5, 1859. BAILEY, Guilford Dudley, soldier, was born at Martinsburg, N. Y., June 4, 1834. He was educated for the profession of arms, and after his graduation from West Point in 1856, was attached to the 2d artillery. After some frontier experience, he was stationed at Fort Leavenworth during the Kansas conflict in 1857-’59. When the state of Texas seceded in 1861, he was stationed at Fort Brown, and with his superior officer, Captain Stoneman, refused to surrender, when General Twiggs proposed to turn over the command to the Confederates. He reported for duty at Washington, was assigned to Hunt's battery and did gallant service at Fort Pickens Fla., 1861. He returned to New York, where he recruited the 1st N. Y. light artillery, and as colonel joined the army of the Potomac, September, 1861, and served in the Peninsular campaign as chief of artillery in General Casey's division. He was killed at the battle of Seven Pines, meeting death while directing the firing of his guns. His body was conveyed to the cemetery at Poughkeepsie, N. Y., where a monument was raised to his memory. He died May 31, 1862. BAILEY, Jacob Whitman, naturalist, was born at Auburn, Mass., April 29, 1811. His early education was attained at Providence, R. I., and he received a cadetship to West Point where he was graduated in 1832. He was assigned to active duty in the army as 2d lieutenant in the artillery service, where for six years he served in the forts of Virginia and South Carolina. In 1834 he returned to West Point as assistant professor of chemistry, geology and mineralogy. Of these branches he was soon made full professor, and in the course of his work became greatly interested in microscopy. In this study he made many important investigations, which have given him a wide reputation as a naturalist. The "Bailey