David J. Bailey
History of Montana, 1898
US Genweb Montana archives

David S. Bailey, Treasurer of Missoula County, was born in Butts 
County Georgia, January 16, 1844 and is of English ancestry.  His 
maternal great-grandfather was a soldier in the Revolution and on 
the paternal side of the family were early settlers of the South.  
His father, James Bailey, was born in South Carolina, in 1804, was 
a planter by occupation and spent his entire life in the South, 
his death occurring in 1848.  He married Eliza Higgins, a native 
of South Carolina and they had ten children, six of whom are now 
living.  The mother died in 1848.  The parents were members of 
the Baptist Church.

D.J. Bailey, the sixth child in order of birth in the family, 
attended school at Indian Springs, Georgia at Lafayette, Alabama 
and at Princeton Kentucky.  His first business experience was 
that of a clerk in a store at the latter place; afterward he 
followed the same occupation at Evansville Indiana and came from 
that place to Montana, August 23, 1865.  He took a ranch thirteen
 miles from Virginia City, but after a year and a half there sold 
his property and moved to that city, where he conducted a boarding 
house during the winter.  In the following spring in company with 
Lott and Jones he opened a store at Twin Bridges, Madison County 
where he remained a year and a half and then conducted a dairy 
business at Corrine Utah a short time.  In 1870 he bought a 
band of cattle to Bozeman Montana, was afterward appointed 
deputy treasurer of Gallatin County under his brother William 
H. Bailey, held that position two years, next taught schools 
for about two terms, was also a bookkeeper for a time; in 1874
opened a store at St. Louis, Jefferson County; in the following 
year engaged in the same occupation at Springville, same county; 
was elected to the office of Justice of the Peace; followed 
farming three years in Meagher County; purchased and improved a 
farm of 160 acres in Jefferson County and in 1884 accepted the 
position of clerk in the old Rogers House in Missoula and held 
that position five years.

July 24, 1864 Mr. Bailey was united in marriage with Miss Rosa 
Pierce, a native of Kentucky.  They had one daughter, Bertha, 
now the wife of E.J. Owenhouse of Bozeman.  The wife and mother 
died in 1871, when the daughter was only nine months old.  The 
loss of his beloved wife proved a sad affliction to Mr. Bailey.  
June 14, 1876 he married Miss Josie M. Pauley, a native of 
Wisconsin.  To this union have been born four children: William 
Warren, James Edwin, David J. and one deceased in infancy.  


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