Contra Costa-Santa Cruz County CA Archives Biographies.....Bailey, Angelo A. 1844 - 
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Author: W. A. & Slocum & Co. (1882)

ANGELO A. BAILEY.—The subject of this sketch, the present Superintendent of the
Schools of Contra Costa county, is a native of Walworth county, Wisconsin, where
he was born June 25, 1844. Here he received his education, primarily at the
common schools of the district, and subsequently at the Big Foot and Allen Grove
Academies, from which last-named institution he graduated. In 1865, then in his
twenty-first year, he first left home to commence the battle of life. His
initiation into the mysteries of "earning your own living" was in the pine
forests of his native State—no holiday task we may be assured was his—and for
three years he found employment there, chopping, sawing and rafting lumber,
driving logs, etc. In the meantime, Mr. Bailey's father disposed of his
Wisconsin home, and moved to McHenry county, Illinois, whither he was followed
by his son, our subject, at the expiration of his term in the primeval forests
mentioned above. Remaining under the family rooftree— working the farm in Summer
and teaching school in Winter—until May, 1873, Mr. Bailey, in company with his
brother, Jefferson A., then purchased a band of fine horses, and in accordance
with the advice of the immortal Horace Greeley, went west, Denver, Colorado,
being their destination. Here, disposing of their stock, they ventured into the
mazes of sheep farming for a year, but finally selling out, the subject of our
narrative came direct to Santa Cruz county, California, where he pitched his
tent in July, 1874. Now, his early scholastic training stood him in good stead,
for he almost immediately re-entered upon the onerous duties of school-teaching.
To this honorable profession Mr. Bailey has since adhered. Moving to Contra
Costa county in the Spring of 1877, he became Principal of the Antioch Graded
School, a position he filled most acceptably to the patrons of that institute
for a period of nearly three years—in fact, until he resigned in order to enter
upon the duties of his office as County Superintendent of Schools, to which
position he had been elected at the Fall election of the year 1879. The
functions of this office Mr. Bailey has since filled, and is now filling with
eminent satisfaction to every School District in the county, to the entire
population, irrespective of party, and with extreme credit to himself. Well can
it be said, and happily may we re-echo the trite quotation, Palmam qui meruit
ferat. Married, in Richmond, Illinois, March 23, 1871, Lottie Tibbetts, a native
of that State, by whom he has: Mabel R., born May 10, 1873; Effie L., born
February 9, 1875; Percy S., born April 12, 1879, died April 15, 1881; and
Irving, born April 3, 1881.

Additional Comments:
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HISTORY OF CONTRA COSTA COUNTY,
CALIFORNIA,
INCLUDING ITS GEOGRAPHY, GEOLOGY, TOPOGRAPHY, CLIMATOGRAPHY AND DESCRIPTION;
TOGETHER WITH A RECORD OF THE MEXICAN GRANTS; THE BEAR FLAG WAR; THE MOUNT
DIABLO COAL FIELDS; THE EARLY HISTORY AND SETTLEMENT, COMPILED FROM THE MOST
AUTHENTIC SOURCES; THE NAMES OF ORIGINAL SPANISH AND MEXICAN PIONEERS; FULL
LEGISLATIVE HISTORY OF THE COUNTY; SEPARATE HISTORY OF EACH TOWNSHIP, SHOWING
THE ADVANCE IN POPULATION AND AGRICULTURE;
ALSO,
Incidents of Pioneer Life; and Biographical Sketches
OF EARLY AND PROMINENT SETTLERS AND REPRESENTATIVE MEN;
AMD OF ITS TOWNS, VILLAGES, CHURCHES, SECRET SOCIETIES, ETC.
ILLUSTRATED.
SAN FRANCISCO: W. A. SLOCUM & CO., PUBLISHERS
1882.


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