Newaygo County MI Archives Biographies.....Bailey, William H. January 25, 1830 - 
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Author: Chapman Brothers

WILLIAM H. BAILEY, farmer and blacksmith, section 16, Norwich Township, was 
born Jan. 25, 1830, in 

England.  He is a son of James and Jane (Hill) Bailey, natives of Kent Co., 
Eng., where his mother still 

resides.  Mr. Bailey had only the educational privileges common to the class 
of people which he belonged 

in his native country.  In 1852 he came to the Dominion of Canada, and while a 
resident there he learned 

his trade of blacksmith.  In 1861 he went to Rochester, N.Y., where he worked 
at his trade, and after a 

time another removal to Ashtabula Co., Ohio, and was similarily engaged until 
1872, when he went to 

Chicago, remained four months and came to Newaygo County within the year.  He 
was employed two months on 

the Chicago & West Michigan railraod, and after that worked three years for 
Steward, Ives & Co.  At the 

expiration of that time he established a shop of his own.  He owns 42 acres of 
land where he engaged in 

farming when not confined by press of business to his shop.  He was married at 
Big Rapids, in 1874 to 

Lydia Conkwiright, who was born i Oakland Co., Mich., in 1831.

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

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