Nathan L. Bailey, M. D. Biography


	This biography appears on pages 1025-1026 in "History of Dakota 
	Territory" by George W. Kingsbury, Vol. IV (1915) and 
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				NATHAN L. BAILEY, M. D. 

	Dr. Nathan L. Bailey is a well known physician and surgeon of 
Lake Preston, where he has been successfully engaged in the practice of 
his profession during the past decade. His birth occurred in Boscobel, 
Wisconsin, on the 13th of September, 1860, his parents being Mark and 
Rebecca (Darland) Bailey, both of whom are deceased. Throughout his 
active business career the father was engaged in general agricultural 
pursuits. 

	Nathan L. Bailey obtained his education in the graded and high 
schools of his native state and was subsequently engaged in farming in 
association with his brother in Wisconsin. In 1881, when a young man of 
twenty-one years, he came to South Dakota but a short time later 
returned to the state of his nativity. In 1887 he again came to South 
Dakota, locating at Lake Preston, where he entered the drug store of 
which his brother was proprietor, the latter being also a physician by 
profession. He remained in the store until 1890 and in that year became 
a student in the Keokuk Medical College of Iowa, being graduated from 
that institution with the degree of M. D. in 1892. During the next 
twelve years he was engaged in the practice of medicine in Wisconsin 
and then returned to Lake Preston, this state, which has since remained 
the scene of his professional labors. An extensive and well merited 
practice has been accorded him as he has demonstrated his skill and 
ability in the successful treatment of many difficult cases. With the 
steady progress of the profession he keeps in close touch through his 
membership in the Third District Medical Society, the South Dakota 
State Medical Society and the American Medical Association. He has 
served as superintendent of the county board of health and is now 
acting in the capacity of county poor physician. 

	In January, 1890, Dr. Bailey was united in marriage to Miss Cora 
Chase, her father being Dudley L. Chase, who was a pioneer settler of 
South Dakota and broke the first five acres of ground in Kingsbury 
county. The Doctor and his wife have three children, namely: Ethelyn, 
who follows the profession of teaching in Kingsbury county; and Vena 
and Vera, twins, who are high-school students. 

	In politics Dr. Bailey is a stanch republican and he served as 
the second mayor of Lake Preston, giving the town a progressive and 
beneficial administration. He has also done value able service as a 
member of the council for a number of years. His religious faith is 
that of the Congregational church and fraternally he is identified with 
the Masons, being a worthy exemplar of the craft. Hunting, fishing and 
motoring afford him pleasure and recreation and he is well known and 
popular in both professional and social circles of his adopted state, 
being widely recognized as an able physician, a public-spirited citizen 
and a trustworthy friend.