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Biographical History of Cherokee County, Iowa
W. S. Dunbar & Co., Chigago - 1889

[page 493-494]

  E. E. BAILEY, farmer and stock-raiser, is one of the men who have seen
  Cherokee County grown almost from its infancy, having been a resident
  there since June 2, 1869.  He was born September 19, 1843, at East
  Hampton, Middlesex County, Connecticut, and is the son of E. B. and
  LYDIA ANN (WELLS) BAILEY.  The father is living at the present time
  in Cherokee County, but the mother died when Mr. BAILEY was six days
  old.  He was left to the care of a foster-mother, his father afterward
  marrying his mother's sister, Miss MARY JANE WELLS.  Mr. BAILEY lived
  in Connecticut until he was sixteen years of age, attending the public
  schools of East Hampton, where his father resided, working at the car-
  penter's trade.  May 1, 1859, he arrived with his father in Clayton
  County, Iowa, where the family settled near McGregor, on a farm of
  forty acres.  With the thrift and economy characteristic of New England
  people the elder Mr. BAILEY went to work, and in a few years had added
  to his tract of land until he had 200 acres of good land.  The son,
  E. E., labored until he was twenty-one years of age; after he became
  of age he rented his father's land, paying one-third of the crop for
  rent.  He afterward bought eighty acres, borrowing the purchase money
  of his father.  After much hard work and many discouragements he sold
  his farm in Clayton County, and with $500 in money and two yoke of oxen
  started to find a home in Northwestern Iowa, then a wild, uncultivated
  country.  He took a homestead of 160 acres in Willow Township, Cherokee
  County, and entered forty acres at the same time.  His homestead papers
  are dated at Sioux City, June 4, 1869.  He afterward bought 160 acres
  in Tilden Township which he traded for 160 acres in Rock Township. This
  he has recently sold.  At the present time he has 332 acres of as fine
  land as can be found in the borders of Cherokee County.  Mr. BAILEY was
  married June 7, 1866, to Miss HARRIET ANN STINAR, a daughter of JOSEPH
  LEWIS and ESTHER HETTY (WAGNER) STINAR.  Mrs. BAILEY was born in Ohio.
  Her Grandfather WAGNER was the first settler in Wagner Township, Clayton
  County, the township being named for him.  Her father was born in Col-
  umbus, Ohio, of French and English origin.  Her mother was born in
  Pennsylvania, of German descent.  Mr. and Mrs. BAILEY are the parents
  of four children: LEWIS BOWEN, ARTHUR CLIFTON, ROSS WINFIELD and ERNEST
  EARL; besides these children the parents have adopted one child - HETTY
  JANET STINAR BAILEY.

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