Pasquotank County NcArchives Biographies.....Bailey Sr., William Henry 
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Source: Who's Who in America
Author: John W. Leonard

Bailey, William Henry, Sr., 
lawyer, author;
b. Pasquotank Co., NC, Jan. 22, 1831;
ed. Caldwell Inst. (LL.D., Rutherford Coll., NC);
m. Oct. 20, Hillsborough, NC Annie Chamberlayne Howerton.
Admitted to bar Supreme Court, NC, Jan., 1853;
elected co. atty. Caswell, Co., NC, 1858;
repeatedly afterward for other counties;
elected atty.-gen. by legislature of NC, 1856;
mem. NC legislature, 1882;
apptd. C.S. receiver, 1863;
code comm'r NC, 1872;
taught law school many yrs.;
has lived in Texas since 1891.
Author: The Effect of Civil War Upon the Rights of Persons and Property;
Onus Probandi, B10; Conflict of Judicial Decisions; The Detective Faculty, C3; 
also many legal, historical and literary articles. 
Edited 5th NC Digest of the Decisions of the Supreme Court.
Address: 2130 Bagby St., Houston, Tex.

Additional Comments:
Source:
Who's Who in America
A Biographical Dictionary of Notable Living Men and Women of the United States.
Volume 3
1903-1905
Established, 1899, by Albert Nelson Marquis
Edited by John W. Leonard
Chicago
A.N. Marquis & Company
Publishers
1903

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