Lake County IN Archives Biographies.....Bailey, George B. 1870 - ************************************************ 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 25, 2006, 10:25 pm Author: T. H. Ball (1904) GEORGE B. BAILEY. George B. Bailey comes from one of the old families of Lake county, of which he. is a representative agriculturist and a man whose standing as a stanch business man is unquestioned. He is a native of West Creek township, of Lake county, and was born March 26, 1870, being the youngest of the four children, three sons and one daughter, born to Josiah and Nancy (Kyle) Bailey. All the children are living: Leroy is the efficient treasurer of Lake county, and whose biography appears on other pages of this volume; Charles is a progressive farmer of West Creek township; Grace M. is the wife of F. T. Buse, also of West Creek township. Mr. George B. Bailey was reared and educated in Lake county. His advanced training was acquired in the Valparaiso College, where he was a student during the years 1887-88-89 and took the teacher's course. His active career has been spent as an agriculturist and stockman, and his active, aggressive and business nature causes him never to stop short of real attainment in whatever he undertakes. After his return from college, being the youngest child, he remained at home and soon became a partner with his father. For the past thirteen years he has been engaged in the business of buying and feeding cattle, being with his father for seven years. November 16, 1891, he married Miss Julia Foster, and one son has been born to them, Leon L., who is in the fourth grade of the public schools and thus early in life seems to be inclined to follow in the footsteps of his father. Mrs. Bailey was born in Parker, Kansas, November 16, 1872, and is the tenth and youngest of a family of ten children, five sons and five daughters. born to George Lyman and Lucy J. (Hathaway) Foster. There are nine of her brothers and sisters living, and five are in Lake county. She was about four years old when the family came to Lake county. Her early education was obtained in the public schools, and then for two years she took the teacher's course in Valparaiso College. Mr. Bailey is a strong Republican, and was a stanch supporter of the administration of Benjamin Harrison, for whom he cast his first presidential vote, and during every subsequent administration he has upheld Republicanism in doctrine and practice. He has served as a delegate to the county conventions. Mr. and Mrs. Bailey are people who respect true Christian principles and the church institution, and they are attendants of the West Creek Methodist church. The Lowell National Bank, detailed mention of which is made on other pages, was organized on May 13, 1903, with a full roster of solid financial men at its head, and Mr. Bailey is vice-president of its official board. Mr. and Mrs. Bailey's beautiful country seat, known as the "Diamond Farm," comprises five hundred and ninety acres, all in West Creek township. Their comfortable and cosy residence was erected in 1897, and during several subsequent years excellent improvements and outbuildings were constructed, so that as concerns general appearance and profitable usefulness there is hardly a place in the township more deserving of the reputation of "a model farmstead." Cleanliness and order are cardinal points in the management of this farm, and the passer-by cannot but pause and admire the entire farm as one of the bright and high-class agricultural enterprises of Lake county. Mr. Bailey belongs to the young and substantial business men upon whom the responsibility for the welfare of a community will in the main always rest. While enthusiastic and aggressive, he possesses also a due amount of conservatism and finely balanced judgment, and these excellent qualities are to determine his success in the future as they have in the past and give him his due meed of prominence in the substantial industrial enterprise of Lake 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/bailey579gbs.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/infiles/ File size: 4.8 Kb