BIO: BAILEY, Warren Worth, s/o Elisha & Elizabeth (Faught) Bailey

Submitted by:  phill@redrock.net   (Phyllis Hill)

HISTORY OF KNOX AND DAVIESS COUNTIES, INDIANA
The Goodspeed Publishing Co.  1886

Knox County, Vincennes Township, p. 309

WARREN WORTH BAILEY, editor of the Vincennes News is a native of Hendricks
County, Ind., born near New Winchester, January 18, 1855, son of Elisha and
Elizabeth (Faught) Bailey, both natives of Kentucky, the father born in
Bourbon County in 1802 and the mother near Frankfort in 1824.  The Bailey
family, who are of Scotch-German descent, came to Vincennes in 1879 and
remained until the father's death, November 24, 1883.  The mother now
resides in this city.  Warren W. is the oldest of four children born to his
father's third marriage.  He received a common school education, and worked
on a farm in his boyhood days.  He began the study of telegraphy in 1871 and 
soon mastered it.  The following year he accepted the position as telegraph
operator at Kansas, Ill., for the Indianapolis & St. Louis Railroad.  He
continued in said office until 1877.  He then went to Carlisle, Ind., and
became connected with the Carlisle Democrat, as editor and part owner.  In
1879 that paper was consolidated with the Vincennes Register, and took the
name of the Vincennes News.  Subject removed to Vincennes at that time, and
has continued the newspaper work.  He is an independent Democrat in politics,
and is an able editor and popular man of southern Indiana.
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