Biographical Sketch of Andrew R. Bailey, Pulaski County, Missouri

>From "History of Laclede, Camden, Dallas, Webster, Wright, Texas,
 Pulaski, Phelps & Dent Counties, Missouri, Published 1889, Goodspeed
 Publishing Company.

Transcribed by: Penny Harrell (Incog3678@aol.com)

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Andrew R. Bailey, postmaster of Bailey, and a successful farmer of
Pulaski County, MO., was born in Mahoning County, Ohio, in 1842, and
is the eighth of ten children born to the union of David and Eliza-
beth (Early) Bailey, who were of Scotch and Irish descent, born in
Connecticut and Pennsylvania in 1800 and 1804, and died in Ohio in 
1862 and 1872, respectively.  The father was a farmer, and became a
resident of Ohio in 1805, and he and wife were worthy and consistent
members of the Presbyterian Church.  Andrew R. Bailey received his
early education in Coitsville, Ohio, and remained with his parents 
until the breaking out of the war, when he enlisted in Company C, 
Fifty-seventh Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteers, and after participa-
ting in the siege of Yorktown, the battles of Williamsburg and Fair
Oaks, being wounded in the latter engagement, he received his dis-
charge in December, 1862, and returned home, where he was married in 
1864 to Miss Artie M. Brownlee, who was born in Coitsville, Ohio in
1847.  Her parents, Thomas and Martha Brownlee, were of Scotch descent.
To Mr. and Mrs. Bailey were born five children:  Preston T.; Mattie;
Carrie L.; Lester M. and Jennie E.  In 1865 Mr. Bailey removed with
his family to Mercer County, Penn., and in 1876 immigrated to Missouri,
locating in Pulaski County, where he owns a fine farm of 417 acres.
He has 125 acres under cultivation, and is in a prosperous condition
financially.  He votes the Republican ticket, and in 1864, while re-
siding in Ohio, was elected to the office of assessor, holding the
position one term, and after moving to Pennsylvania was elected to the
same office, which he held three consecutive terms.  In 1880 he was
appointed census enumerator for Roubideaux and Piney Townships, in
Pulaski County, and in 1879 was made postmaster of Bailey Post-office,
which received its name from him.  He and wife and three children are
members of the United Presbyterian Church.

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