Newaygo County MI Archives Biographies.....Bailey, John December 8, 1848 - 
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Author: Chapman Brothers

JOHN BAILEY, of Newaygo, was born at Vergennes, Vt., Dec. 8, 1848, and is a 
son of John and Julia (LeMay) 

Bailey.  His father died at Vergennes in 1850, and his mother was married 
again in 1853, to David Jarse, 

of Glens Falls, N.Y., who two years later removed with his wife and her 
children to Newaygo.  The 

pleasant, promising village was then almost in a state of nature; Main street 
was a thoroughfare of 

stumps, and civilization was represented by the energetic prosecutors of the 
lumber interests, which 

almost wholly attracted hither and held the population.

Mr. Bailey found his first employ at Newaygo in the shingle-mill of 
Fairchilds, and afterwards in that of 

George H. Hess and others, where he spent some years.  In May, 1876, the year 
after the death of his 

stepfather, he rented the Jarse House of his mother and conducted it as a 
hotel one year.  In 1877, he 

began to manage a saloon business on Main street, where he operated 
successfully until April, 1883, when 

the fire destroyed his busiess and two buildings where he was located.  He 
sustained a loss of $3,000, 

with no insurance.  He at once entered upon the work of re-construction, and 
has erected on the same site 

an elegant building of the same variety of white brick used in the edifices on 
Main street that are 

rapidly relacing those destroyed in the "big fire" which, ruinous as it was, 
paved the way for the growing 

and substantial beauty of the chief street in Newaygo.  The block erected by 
Mr. Bailey is a double front, 

50 x 75 feet in dimensions and two stories high.  Mr. Bailey occupies one 
front and rents the other.  

Besides his village property he owns 40 acres on section 2 in Grant Township.  
In addition to his regular 

business he operates as a loan broker quite extensively.

Mr. Bailey was married at Newaygo, June 20, 1874, to Sarah E., daughter of 
Silas and Aurelia Bement, a 

native of Centerville, Crawford Co., Pa., born Jan. 29, 1855.  March 15, 1875, 
Lola and Lulu, twin 

daughters, were born to Mr. and Mrs. Bailey; also, June 21, 1877, John, and 
Dec. 26, 1882, Harry.  The 

latter died Sept. 22, 1883.  Lulu died Sept. 25, 1876.

Additional Comments:
1884 Portrait & Bio Album of Newaygo Co.

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