Edward G. Bailey Biography


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	including biographical sketches of prominent old settlers and 
	representative citizens of South Dakota..." Published by G. A. Ogle & 
	Co., Chicago, 1899. Page 1062

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EDWARD G. BAILEY, an agriculturist and carpenter, residing in Bonilla 
township, Beadle county, is an early settler of South Dakota. He was 
born in Lower Canada in 1835, and was the sixth in a family of ten 
children born to Jonathan B. and Hannah (Dufur) Bailey. 

The great-grandfather of our subject was a brigadier-general in the 
British army and settled in Newburyport, New Hampshire, and the 
grandfather of our subject, Abijah Bailey, served in the Revolutionary 
war, and the father of our subject served in the war of 1812. The 
family moved from Canada to the United States when our subject was but 
two years of age, and settled in Vermont, remaining there about seven 
years, going from Vermont to Ohio. 

When our subject was fourteen years of age he went to Hardin, and there 
learned the trade of carpenter, and from that time male his own way. He 
located in Michigan when about twenty-one years of age and worked at 
his trade, and in 1856 went to Minnesota and worked in St. Paul and Red 
Wing. In September, 1861, he enlisted in Company E, Third Minnesota 
Volunteer Infantry, as sergeant. His first engagement was at 
Murfreesborough, where he was made prisoner. He was soon paroled and 
finally exchanged, and when he again entered the service he was placed 
in the secret service department, and was engaged in scouting in the 
states of Arkansas, Texas, Tennessee, Kentucky, and Missouri, his chief 
work being to locate guerrilla bands. He was mustered out October 2, 
1865. After returning from the war he resumed his trade, and in 1879 
established an implement business in Oakland, Iowa, and in 1883 went to 
Spink county, South Dakota. The land upon which he finally filed claim 
was on Wolf creek in Burdette township, Hand county, and there he 
conducted farming until recently, when he moved to his present location 
in Bonilla township, Beadle county. He made the change that he might be 
near his children. 

Our subject was married in 1855 to Miss Sarah M. Davis, of Michigan. 
Five children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Bailey, named as follows: 
Emma A., now Mrs. James Bales, of Nebraska; Allen E., farming in 
Bonilla township; Ellen, now Mrs. William Newton, of Huron, South 
Dakota; Lizzie, now Mrs. James Borah, living near our subject; and 
Maggie, now Mrs. Lawson, of Hand county. Mr. Bailey advocates the 
principles of the Democratic party.