The Bailey Families of Nodaway County, Missouri

E. M. BAILEY, farmer and stock dealer, section 15, post office Elmo. The subject of this sketch was born in Burke County, North Carolina, February 22, 1842, and when he was but a boy his parents, Joel and Nancy (Kerley) Bailey, moved to Platte County, Missouri, where they resided till 1856, then coming to Nodaway County. There E. M. was educated, being reared as a farmer boy, and he has made farming and dealing in stock his occupation during life. In August, 1861, he entered the Confederate service in Company B, Third Missouri Cavalry, remaining in this company till about 1864, when he was taken prisoner, but was afterwards released. He then joined Company F, Second Missouri Artillery of the Federal cause, and continued to serve till June, 1865. Mr. B. now has a landed estate of 280 acres, his home farm containing 160 acres. He has held the office of constable three terms, and is now deputy sheriff of the county. He participated in the hanging of the Talbott brothers, and also had been guarding the jail against the suspected mob. He is a member of Canada Lodge, No. 329, A. F. and A. M. Mr. B. was married March 20, 1866, to Miss Barbara A. Pruett, a native of Illinois. They have five children: Ervin A., William F., Charley L., Mary F. and James B. Mr. and Mrs. B. are members of the Church of God.

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WILLIAM A. BAILEY, contractor and builder, is a native of Vermont, and was born in Orleans County, August 17, 1844. When eight years of age, he moved with his father to Louisa County, Iowa, where he was reared. His father was a farmer, and his early days were spent on the farm, afterwards learning the carpenter's trade. In 1862, he enlisted in Company C, Nineteenth Iowa Volunteer Infantry, as a private. He served through the war, participating in the most active campaigns, and received a wound at the battle of Prairie Grove. After peace was restored, he went to Ohio, and attended college at Farmington, and then returned to Louisa County, Iowa, where he lived for eighteen months. For six years he was engaged in teaching, and for a time after this was connected with the Freeman's Bureau, in Southern Alabama. In 1872, he came to DeKalb County, Missouri, and worked at his trade for eighteen months, and then went to Southern Texas, where he remained occupied at his chosen calling for six months. Mr. Bailey then returned to DeKalb County, and thence to Maryville, where he has been actively engaged as a prominent contractor and builder. He was married in 1872, to Miss Ella Lackey, of Hartford, Connecticut.

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HAMLIN C. BAILEY.

The record of Hamlin C. Bailey, the well-known cashier of the Farmers’ Bank at Quitman, Nodaway county, is that of a man who, by practically unaided efforts, has worked his way from a comparatively modest beginning to a position of influence and comparative affluence in his community. His life has been one of unceasing industry and perseverance, and the systematic and honorable methods he has ever followed have won him the unbounded confidence of his fellow-citizens, having at all times, while advancing his own interests, labored to promote those of his county.

Mr. Bailey was born in Morgan county, Ohio, July 12, 1860, and is the son of John P. and Mary J. (Barr) Bailey, an old and highly esteemed family, who came to Grundy county, Missouri, when Hamlin C. was eight years old. They lived there about four years, then went to Henry county, Iowa, where they lived until their son was of legal age. He received a good common school education. His first start in life for himself was in a store in Wayland, Iowa, but in 1882 he went to Kansas City and spent five years in a furniture store, then was engaged as bookkeeper and salesman for Emmert & Neal at Tarkio for five years, then was with other firms for about eight years. In February, 1900, he came to Quitman and became cashier of the Farmers’ Bank of this place, and he has filled this position with ability and credit.

Mr. Bailey was married in 1887 to Edith M. Bailey, daughter of Eli and Mary (McCollister) Bailey, a full sketch of whom appears elsewhere in this work. Five children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Hamlin C. Bailey, namely: Allison D., who is bookkeeper for a firm in St. Joseph; Halbert L., Harry A., Mary E. and John W., all at home with their parents.

Politically Mr. Bailey is a Republican, is influential in local party affairs, and for years he has been a member of the Republican county central committee and is treasurer of the same. Personally, he is a persistent worker, industrious, obliging and public spirited. He has always looked very carefully to details, has the foresight and discernment of the modern business man of affairs and exercises sound judgment in all his transactions and relations with the world.

The Farmers' Bank of Quitman, mentioned above, is controlled by John S., J. Edward and Russell 1. Bilby, bankers, and was organized in 1885 as a private bank, and it was maintained as such until 1897, when it was sold out to Dr. Rufus H. Smith, who ran it two years, and then sold it to the present owners, the Bilbvs. It has a capital stock of ten thousand dollars, with a surplus of two thousand and five hundred, and is regarded as a sound and safe institution. The following official statement, in part, issued January 31, 1910, is sufficient to show its solid condition: Loans and discounts, $22,521.71; loans, real estate, $1,150.00; overdrafts, $999.62; real estate (banking house), $1,500.00; furniture and fixtures, $750.00; due from other banks and bankers, subject to check, $22,178.76; cash items, $6.50; currency, $1,667.00; specie, $630.84; total, $51,727.67. Liabilities: Capital stock paid in, $10,000.00; surplus fund, $2,500.00: undivided profits, net, $2,573.00; deposits, $36,654.67; total, $51,727.67.

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JOHN ELDON BAILEY.

Whether the elements of success in life are innate attributes of the individual or whether they are quickened by a process of circumstantial development, it is impossible to clearly determine. Yet the study of a successful life, whatever the field of endeavor, is none the less interesting and profitable by reason of existence of this same uncertainty. So much in excess of those of successes are the records of failures or semi-failures, that one is con strained to attempt an analysis in either case and to determine the measure of causation in an approximate way. But in studying the life history of John Eldon Bailey, a well-known citizen of Maryville, we find many qualities in his makeup that always gain definite success in any career if properly directed, as his has evidently been done, which has resulted in good to himself, his family and to others with whom he has come in contact.

Mr. Bailey was born April 1 6, 1869, in Washington, Iowa, the son of Samuel P. and Lavinia (Dunlap) Bailey. The father was born March 3, 1837, in Morgan county, Ohio, where he grew to maturity and was educated in the early schools of the Buckeye state. He came to Iowa in 1865 and first engaged in the newspaper business; then entered the mercantile business at Center Point, and continued successfully in this line until his death, January 22, 1903. He was a Republican, a member of the Methodist Episcopal church, and belonged to the Masonic fraternity and the Ancient Order of United Workmen. He married Lavinia Dunlap, who was born in Fulton county, Pennsylvania, February 7, 1839, and whose death occurred at Tarkio, Missouri, July 12, 1892.

John E. Bailey was brought to Tarkio, Atchison county, Missouri, when a child and there he grew to manhood and was educated in the public schools. Early in life he turned his attention to the mercantile world and began clerking in a store in Westboro, Atchison county, also clerked in Tarkio, then went to Princeton, this state, and from there to Maryville in 1903, and organized the Maryville Furniture Company, of which he is still secretary and manager and W. H. Lee is president. He has built up an extensive patronage with the town and surrounding country, and his store is widely known, being one of the neatest and best-equipped of its kind in the county, always carefully stocked with an up-to-date line of everything to be found in a modern furniture store, a full line of furniture, sewing machines, kitchen cabinets, wall paper, window shades, etc. Mr. Bailey, in connection with his store, does a large undertaking business, having been licensed by the state board of embalming on June 3, 1907.

Mr. Bailey is a member of the Christian church, belongs to the Masons and the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. He has won a reputation for honesty in all the relations of life, and his many customers and patrons have remained his friends.

Mr. Bailey was married on June 15, 1892, to Anna E. Frazier, daughter of W. R. and Sarah (Maupin) Frazier, a well-established family of Atchison county, this state. Mrs. Bailey was born September 21, 1876. To this union one child has been born, William Frazier Bailey.

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