Lake County IN Archives Biographies.....Bailey, Charley T. 1862 - 
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Author: T. H. Ball (1904)

CHARLEY T. BAILEY.

    Industry and enterprise coupled with a disposition of sagacity culminate in
the sucessful [sic] man of the day. The truth of this aphorism is especially
manifest in the case of Charley T. Bailey, who comes from one of the most
prominent families in the west part of Lake county. He is a native of Illinois,
was born in Kankakee county, April 12, 1862, being the second of a family of
four children, three sons and one daughter, the oldest of whom is Levi E., the
county treasurer of Lake county, who is represented elsewhere in this volume;
the daughter Grace is the wife of Fred T. Buse, a prosperous agriculturist of
West Creek township (see their sketch); and George, another leading farmer of
West Creek township. The father of this family is biographed in full on another
page, and mother Bailey is deceased.

    Mr. Charley T. Bailey was an infant when he became a resident of Lake
county, and consequently he has been reared in this county. He is a practical
agriculturist and stock farmer, and in the latter department of his business has
gained more than ordinary reputation. He makes a specialty of Hereford cattle
and coach horses. He has one of the finest Hereford bulls to be found in
northern Indiana, having purchased it from the well known stockman, Tom Clarke,
of Beecher, Illinois. He is making a great success in the breeding of this fine
stock, and his long experience of sixteen years has given him a big leverage for
causing a happy culmination of all his enterprises. He has devoted much time and
money to raising the grade of cattle to a high standard in this county. He has
also bred coach horses for a number of years.

    Mr. Bailey is what may be termed a self-made man, having in a scholastic
sense received only a common school education and one term in high school. He
remained at home till the age of twenty-six, when he married for his first wife
Miss Tillie E. Grimes, on April 23, 1888. Four children, two sons and two
daughters, were born of this union, and all are living. The eldest is May, who
graduated from the eighth grade as salutatorian of her class and has also taken
instrumental music; Ray is in the seventh grade of school; and Earl and Hilda
are both at the sixth grade in their school work. All the children are bright
and progressing rapidly in their preparation for life's larger duties. Mrs.
Bailey, the mother of this family, died on January 3, 1897. On September 4,
1899, Mr. Bailey was united in marriage to Miss Esther Starkweather, who was
born in Michigan and was reared and educated in that state, graduating from the
Romeo schools. She is a woman of more than ordinary business ability and acumen,
and has been able to assist her husband in many ways.

    After his first marriage Mr. Bailey located on one hundred and forty acres
in section 7 of West Creek township, and he has made his home here ever since,
although his first tract of land was but the nucleus of his present fine large
estate. He has erected a modern country residence and excellent barns and
outbuildings, and now owns four hundrd [sic] and fifty-three acres of land in
this township. His farm is known as the Lanthus stock farm, which name was given
by the government when it established the postoffice which at one time existed
on this farm. Mr. Bailey is classed among the young and successful and
progressive farmers of this township, and coming from such a prominent family as
the Baileys are in Lake county it is a pleasure to be able to record his
biography in this handsome work.

    Mr. Bailey is a stanch Republican, and cast his first presidential vote for
James G. Blaine, the "plumed knight." He has ever since strenuously upheld the
banner of Republicanism during each administration. He has been chosen as a
delegate to the county and district conventions, but as to office-seeking has
never had any aspirations at all. Mr. and Mrs. Bailey attend the West Creek
Methodist Episcopal church, and contribute their share of the benevolences.
Their beautiful estate lies entirely in West Creek township, and they stand high
in the estimation of all who know them. Mr. Bailey has traveled quite
extensively in the Mississippi valley and also in the east, and is a well
informed man both as to his business and concerning the outside world and its
important happenings.


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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


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