BIO:  Mumper John 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, Carroll Township, Pg 84

MUMPER JOHN BAILEY, son of Daniel Bailey (deceased), of this township, was born 
January 31, 1844.  He was educated in the schools of the neighborhood, and at 
Academia, Juniata County, and from 1864 until 1868, taught school in Franklin 
Township, this county, Hampden Township, Cumberland County, on the eastern shore 
of Maryland, and again in this township.  From 1871 to 1875 he was engaged in 
mercantile business in Dillsburg, under the firm name of Spahr & Bailey, carrying 
a stock valued at $10,000; in 1876, in partnership with his brother, under the 
firm name of S. N. Bailey & Bro., he entered the commission and grain business 
and dealing in phosphates, at the corner of Church and Second Streets, opposite 
the depot, and is doing a thriving trade.  December 23, 1880, he married Matilda 
M., daughter of Philip Zeigler, of Monroe Township, Cumberland County. Mr. Bailey 
has served as school director, and as clerk of the town council, and is a 
stockholder in the Dillsburg & Mechanicsburg Railroad Company.