George Myron Bailey Biography This biography appears on page 1649 in "History of South Dakota" by Doane Robinson, Vol. II (1904) and was scanned, OCRed and edited by Maurice Krueger, mkrueger@iw.net. This file may be freely copied by individuals and non-profit organizations for their private use. Any other use, including publication, storage in a retrieval system, or transmission by electronic, mechanical, or other means requires the written approval of the file's author. GEORGE MYRON BAILEY, who is established in the real-estate and abstract business in Redfield, Spink county, claims the old Empire state as the place of his nativity, having been born in Middlebury, Wyoming county, New York, on the 27th of November, 1874, and being a son of Myron C. and Rosetta M. Bailey, both of whom were born in New Hampshire. The genealogy in the agnatic line is of English and Scotch derivation, and the original ancestors in America settled in Massachusetts in the colonial epoch of our national history. Later representatives of the name removed to New Hampshire, and from that state came the branch of the family which early settled in western New York. The parents of the subject removed to Iowa when he was about fourteen years of age add settled in Kossuth county, where the father turned his attention to mercantile business, and he and his wife are now residing in Lamberton. Minnesota. The subject completed the curriculum of the public schools, being graduated in the high school at Algona, Kossuth county, Iowa, and later taking a course of study in the Northern Iowa Normal School in that city. He was thereafter engaged in the real-estate and abstract business in the Hawkeye state until early in 1901, when he came to South Dakota and took up his residence in Redfield, where he is now in control of an excellent business in the handling of real estate, while he also has an excellent set of abstracts of title for Spink county, his records being in large demand by the residents and property owners of the county. He is enterprising and straightforward in his business methods, and is held in high esteem by all who know him. In politics Mr. Bailey is a staunch advocate of the principles and policies for which the Republican party stands sponger, and fraternally is identified with the Masonic order, the Knights of Pythias and the Improved Order of Red Men.