Multnomah-Washington County OR Archives Biographies.....Bailey, M. D. , Augustus B. November 18, 1873 - 
************************************************
Copyright.  All rights reserved.
http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm
http://www.usgwarchives.net/or/orfiles.htm
************************************************

File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by:
Ila L. Wakley iwakley@msn.com June 17, 2009, 1:12 am

Author: The S. J. Clarke Publishing Company

     AUGUSTUS R. BAILEY, M. D.  In one of the most exacting of all callings 
the gentleman whose name forms the caption to this sketch has attained 
distinction, being numbered among the able and successful physicians of 
Portland and commanding an enviable place in public regard. Augustus B. Bailey 
was born at Hillsboro, Oregon, on the 18th of November, 1873, and is a son of 
F. A. and Lettia Ann (Chambers) Bailey. His father was born in Tennessee in 
1839, received a thorough medical training in St. Louis, Missouri, and came to 
Oregon in 1865. He died in 1921, after engaging in the practice of medicine 
for fifty-six years. He not only attained prominence in his profession, but 
stood high in the political circles of this state and could have had high 
public office had he so desired. His wife was born in Oregon in 1849 and their 
married life covered a span of fifty-seven years. To this worthy couple were 
born eight children, Francis J., John W., Thomas C., Mary, Josephine, Louisa, 
Eva and Augustus B., all of whom are living.

     Augustus B. Bailey received his early education in the public schools of 
Hillsboro, Oregon, after which he attended Tualatin Academy and Pacific 
University, at Forest Grove. He entered the medical school of the University 
of Oregon, from which he was graduated with the degree of Doctor of Medicine 
in 1904. He engaged in the practice of his profession in Hillsboro, where he 
continued for seven years, after which he studied for a year in New York and 
one year in Europe. In 1912 he located in Portland, where he has since 
conducted practice, specializing in diseases of the eye, ear, nose and throat. 
He has been very successful and has built up a large practice.

     Dr. Bailey was married in December, 1897, to Miss Mary Ethel Merryman, 
who was born in Hillsboro and was educated at Oakland, California, and Forest 
Grove, Oregon. She died in 1921, leaving a son, A. B. Bailey, Jr., who was 
educated at the Portland Academy and the University of Oregon and is now 
connected with the Toledo Scales Company. He was married to Miss Eula McAtee, 
of Pendleton, Oregon, of which city her father is mayor. To this union have 
been born two children, Ann, now six and a half years old, and Bruce McAtee, 
one year old. In 1924 Dr. Bailey was married to Mrs. Dorothy Childs Woollery, 
of Los Angeles, California. The Doctor is a member of the Ancient Free and 
Accepted Masons and the Knights of Pythias, and as at one time mayor of his 
home city, Hillsboro. He belongs to the Portland Medical Society, the 
Multnomah County Medical Society, the American College of Surgeons, the 
Portland Academy of Medicine, the Pacific Coast Oto-Ophthalmological Society 
and the Portland Academy of Ophthalmology. He is a member of the medical staff 
of the Good Samaritan Hospital. He has been successful in material affairs and 
is the owner of a large and well improved dairy farm near Hillsboro. Because 
of his professional ability, his sterling personal qualities and his agreeable 
manner, he has proven worthy of the esteem in which he is held throughout his 
community.

Additional Comments:
History of the Columbia River Valley From The Dalles to the Sea, Vol. II, 
Pages 869-870

File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/or/multnomah/bios/baileymd779gbs.txt

This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/orfiles/

File size: 3.8 Kb