BIO:  Jeremiah Bailey, York County, PA

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History of York County, Pennsylvania.  John Gibson, Historical Editor.
Chicago: F. A. Battey Publishing Co., 1886.
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Part II, Biographical Sketches, Shrewsbury Township, Pg 170

JEREMIAH BAILEY, farmer, was born in Springfield Township, June 2, 1825.  His parents, John C. 
and Barbara (Allison) Bailey, were natives of York County, and of German and English descent, 
respectively.  They reared a family of twelve children – seven daughters and five sons – of 
whom Jeremiah is the eldest.  He was brought up on a farm and educated at the common schools.  
At the age of nineteen he went to New Market, Md., and learned the trade of wheelwright.  He 
worked at Loganville, Wrightsville, and West Manchester, at which latter place he remained five 
years, then returned to Wrightsville; there he worked three years, then went back to West 
Manchester, at which latter place he remained for four or five years.  He then went to 
Maryland, where he worked at his trade, and farming nineteen years.  He also worked about four 
years at New Freedom.  In the spring of 1880, he removed to his farm in Shrewsbury Township, 
near the Maryland line, where he has since been farming and working at his trade.  In 1848 he 
was married at Wrightsville, to Elizabeth Jane Detweiler, of Wrightsville, who died October 24, 
1874, leaving ten children – three of whom died also.  The living are William G., Charles G., 
Emma J., John M., Webster O., Jeremiah D. and Ida L.  He was next married, March 11, 1877, at 
York, to Barbara Bahn, widow of Samuel N. Bahn, who was the mother of ten children, by her fist 
husband – seven girls and three boys:  Alice, Agnes, Ammeda, Sylvester, Ida, Anna, Barbara, 
Ellen and Samuel Howard; Walter and Rosetta are deceased.  The family were members of the 
Evangelical Church.  Mr. Bailey belongs to the P. of H., was a director of schools three years; 
a trustee in Maryland twelve years, and is a director of New Freedom Cemetery Association.