Lake County IN Archives Biographies.....Bailey, Levi E. 1858 - 
************************************************
Copyright.  All rights reserved.
http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm
http://www.usgwarchives.net/in/infiles.htm
************************************************

File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by:
Joy Fisher sdgenweb@yahoo.com December 7, 2006, 10:07 pm

Author: T. H. Ball (1904)

LEVI E. BAILEY.

    On the roster of county officials of Lake county appears the name of Levi E.
Bailey, who is the present treasurer and is a most faithful custodian of the
public exchequer. He is living at present in Crown Point, and throughout this
portion of the state he is widely and favorably known. By birth, training and
preference he is a western man, imbued with the spirit of enterprise and
advancement which is characteristic of the middle west and has led to its rapid
growth and development.

    Mr. Bailey was born in Yellowhead township, Kankakee county, Illinois,
January 9, 1858. It is known that his ancestors lived at one time in North
Carolina, afterward in Pennsylvania and still later in Ohio. His paternal
grandfather, John Bailey, became one of the pioneer settlers of LaPorte county,
Indiana, locating there during the early boyhood of Josiah B. Bailey. On leaving
LaPorte county Josiah B. Bailey took up his abode in Lake county with his
parents, and was here reared. He was also married here, the lady of his choice
being Miss Nancy Kile, who was born in Lake county, Indiana. Immediately after
their marriage they removed to Kankakee county, Illinois, where the father
followed the occupation of farming until 1866. He then returned with his family
to Lake county, locating in West Creek township, where he spent his remaining
days, his death occurring when he was sixty-seven years of age. He was a very
public-spirited man, took an active and helpful interest in the building of
roads and gave a generous and zealous support to the measures for the public
good. In politics he was a very stanch Republican. His wife died at the age of
thirty-eight years. In the family were four children, three sons and a daughter,
all of whom are now residents of West Creek township, Lake county.

    Levi E. Bailey is the eldest and was but six years of age when the family
returned to Lake county, so that he was reared here. He attended the common
schools, worked on the home farm and remained under the parental roof until
twenty-two years of age, when he started out in life on his own account. He
engaged in farming in Kankakee county, Illinois, where he remained for three
years, and then again came to Lake county, settling in West Creek township.
There he carried on general agricultural pursuits until November, 1902, when he
was elected county treasurer. On the 1st of September, 1903, he took up his
abode in Crown Point. He took possession of the office on the 1st of January,
1903, and is now capably discharging the duties thereof. He owns a farm of four
hundred and twenty acres in West Creek township, which is now rented. He is also
a stockholder in the Lowell National Bank. March 19, 1904, Mr. Bailey was
re-nominated for a second term as treasurer.

    In 1880 occurred the marriage of Mr. Bailey and Miss Emma Hayden, a native
of West Creek township, Lake county, and a daughter of Daniel and Louisa Hayden,
who were pioneer settlers of this county. Four children graced this marriage:
Nancy, the wife of Loren Love, of West Creek township; Murray; Merritt; and
Bennett.

    Mr. Bailey takes a very active interest in local political affairs and is an
unfaltering advocate of Republican principles, believing firmly in the
principles of the party and endorsing the various planks of its platform. He is
identified with the Knights of Pythias fraternity and the Independent Order of
Foresters, at Lowell, and he is well known in fraternal, political and
agricultural circles throughout the county.


Additional Comments:
Extracted from:

ENCYCLOPEDIA
OF
Genealogy and Biography
OF
LAKE COUNTY, INDIANA,
WITH A COMPENDIUM OF HISTORY 
1834—1904

A Record of the Achievements of Its People in the Making of a Commonwealth and
the Founding of a Nation.

REV. T. H. BALL
OF CROWN POINT, EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
ILLUSTRATED
CHICAGO   NEW YORK
THE LEWIS PUBLISHING COMPANY
1904


File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/in/lake/bios/bailey403gbs.txt

This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/infiles/

File size: 4.5 Kb