Honolulu County HI Archives Biographies.....Bailey, Charles Thomas April 25, 1883 - 
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Source: Men of Hawaii Vol. IV
Author: George F. Nellist (editor)

 Bailey, Charles Thomas: Civil Engineer; Commissioner of Public Lands.

     Born April 25, 1883, Greensboro, Vt., son of Herbert Hamilton and Jane
(Patterson) Bailey; married Grace Gilmore, Honolulu, April 17, 1915; children,
Clifford Herbert, Barbara Annella and Phyllis Bailey; member Beta Sigma chapter,
National Fraternity of Sigma Nu, Honolulu Ad, University, Automobile,
Mid-Pacific and Oahu Country clubs. Aeronautic Association of Hawaii, American
Association of Engineers, chairman Farm Loan Board of Hawaii.

     Coming to Hawaii in 1912 as engineer in the Water Resources branch of the
U. S. Geological Survey, Mr. Bailey resigned that commission five years later to
become Chief Hydrographer and Engineer. Division of Hydrography, Department of
Lands, Hawaii, and on Jan. 31, 1919, he was appointed to the position of
Commissioner of Public Lands for the Territory, which he has occupied for more
than a decade, serving under three governors. Mr. Bailey also was appointed a
member of the Territorial Farm Loan Board in 1919 and was chosen its chairman in
1922.

     Prior to his assignment in the federal service to Hawaii, Mr. Bailey served
as junior engineer in the Water Resources branch of the Geological Survey from
1910 to 1912, with headquarters at Newport, Kentucky, and had been employed as a
civil engineer by the Michigan Central Railroad at Detroit between 1908 and
1910. He was educated in the Craftsbury Academy, North Craftsbury, Vt., and the
University of Vermont (B. S. 1908).



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