Chester County PA Archives Biographies.....Abraham BAILY, 1801-1873
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from Futhey and Cope's History of Chester County (1881)

 ABRAHAM BAILY, the oldest child of Jacob and Elizabeth Baily, 
was born at Parkerville, Chester Co., Pa., 9, 12, 1801. During 
his minority he was apprenticed to his uncle, John Parker, of 
the same place, as a stone-mason. He continued to work at his 
trade for several years., and in 1833-34 was employed by the 
Reading Company in the building of its bridges and culverts, 
when that road was first laid out. In connnection with Chalkley 
Jefferis and Mr. Ingram, of West Chester, he constructed the 
U.S. Naval Asylum at Norfolk, Va., and was one of the 
superintendents of the foundation work of Girard College. By 
hard toil and business perseverance he acquired a comptency, 
and settled down in the meridian of his days upon the old 
homestead farm, where he died (unmarried) 7, 5, 1873.


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