Clay-Minnehaha County, SD Biographies.....Bailey, Frank M. 1869 - 
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Author: Geo. A. Ogle & Co. (1897)

FRANK M. BAILEY, the editor of the Clay County Freeman, though he has only been
a resident of Vermillion since March, 1896, has, nevertheless, conducted himself
in such a manner as to gain the confidence of the entire community, and during
his short period of life here has made many warm friends and a host of
acquaintances.

    He was born in Boscobel, Wis., October 11, 1869. His father, Dr. Charles S.
K. Bailey, was a graduate of the Baltimore and Philadelphia Medical Colleges,
and also of the University of New York, and he practiced for many years in
Boscobel. During the war he was an examining surgeon at Woodman, Wis., and in
1871 he removed to Colorado for his health, later to San Francisco, and in the
latter city he passed away, his death occurring in September, 1876. He married
Mrs. Eleanor O. Jackson, nee Woolley, a native of Watertown, N. Y., and to them
were born three children—Effie L., Frank M. and Myrtle F. The mother of our
subject still survives.

    Frank M. when he was three years of age was adopted by an English family by
the name of Hoskin, then residing in Lancaster, Wis., and with his foster
parents he lived some nine years. At the expiration of that time, his mother
having re-married, he went to live with her for two years, and then he started
out for himself. The first summer he found employment on a ferry boat at
Specht's Ferry, Iowa, and in the spring of 1884 he went to Rock county, Minn.,
putting in the season at farm labor. In November of the same year he entered the
printing establishment publishing the Beaver Creek Graphic as "devil" and there
learned the printer's trade. After two years of service he secured a position on
the Valley Springs Enterprise, published at Valley Springs, S. Dak., but he only
remained with this paper until September, 1888, when he returned to Rock county,
Minn., and was employed in the office of the Rock County News, published at
Luverne. He remained on the staff of the latter paper until August, 1893, and
during that period he established The Western Literary Journal, but this he only
operated about a year, after which he abandoned the enterprise, and went to
Hills, Minn., where he established the Hills Crescent. That paper he continued
until March, 1896, at which time, as stated above, he came to Vermillion. He
owns the Clay County Freeman, which he purchased on arrival, and is its
editor-in-chief.

    Mr. Bailey was married at Beaver Creek, Minn., May 9, 1891, to Miss Ella G.
Blodgett, a daughter of E. G. and M. J. Blodgett, of Luverne. Mrs. Bailey was
born in Fillmore county, Minn., January 8, 1871, and by her marriage to our
subject they have become the happy parents of two sons, Donald C. I. and Harold L.

   Mr. Bailey is a distant relative on his father's side of the late A. T.
Stewart, of New York, and a direct descendant of Anneka Jans, of Trinity church
fame in New York. On his mother's side he traces his ancestry to Napoleon
Bonaparte. Mr. Bailey is quite well-known as an author of short stories under
the nom de plume Col. Billie Maurice, and he is the present poet Laureate of
Minnesota, the office to which he was elected in February, 1896, having been
created for him by the Minnesota Editorial association. Mr. Bailey was also
identified with the militia of Minnesota for some time. He was mustered into
company H, Third regiment, Minnesota national guards, was transfered to company
H, Second regiment, and commissioned second lieutenant September 3, 1892. His
honorable discharge, which was had at his own request, is dated January 9, 1894.


Additional Comments:

Extracted from:

MEMORIAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD
OF 
Turner, Lincoln, Union and Clay Counties,
SOUTH DAKOTA.

Containing Biographical Sketches of Hundreds of Prominent Old Settlers and
Representative Citizens, with a Review of their Life Work; their Identity with
the Growth and Development of these Counties; Reminiscences of Personal History
and Pioneer Life; and other Interesting and Valuable Matter which should be
Preserved in History.

ILLUSTRATED
CHICAGO.
GEO. A. OGLE & CO.
Publishers, Engravers and Book Manufacturers.
1897.


Biography is the only true history.—EMERSON.

A people that take no pride in the noble achievements of remote ancestors will
never achieve anything worthy to be remembered with pride by remote
generations.—MACAULAY.


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