Greene County PA Archives Biographies.....Bailey, Rev. E. E. August 6, 1817 - ????
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Source: Biographical History of Greene County, Nelson, Rishforth, and Co, Chicago, 1888
Author: Samuel P. Bates

    Rev E E Bailey, missionary, was born in Greene County, 
Penna, August 6, 1817, a son of William Bailey and Zillah 
Johnson Bailey, also natives of this state.
  
  His parents were of Quaker origin and of English 
ancestry. 
  
  His father came to Greene county when he was about nine 
years old with his parents Eli and Ruth Bailey, from Chester 
County, Penna; he died at the advanced age of eighty two 
years.  He was twice married and the Rev E E Bailey is a 
child of his second wife, and grew up on the farm with his 
parents, receiving his early education in a log cabin 
schoolhouse, afterwards attended school at Greene Academy 
and at Waynesburg, Penna.  At the age of sixteen he joined 
the Cumberland Presbyterian Church in Greene County.  He was 
licensed to preach and ordained by the Union Presbytery of 
the Cumberland Presbyterian Church.  He labored some in West 
Virginia, six miles west of Morgantown, but mostly in 
Fayette County, Penna, where he was engaged in the ministry 
for a term of years.  Having had a desire for missionary 
work, he then went West, where he engaged in missionary work 
among the Indians and met with good success. 

      In 1887 he was sent to his present position among the 
Cherokee Indians by the board of missions of the Cumberland 
Presbyterian Church.  In 1839 Mr Bailey was united in 
marriage with Miss Mary, daughter of John Rea and Margaret 
Dowlin Rea.  Mrs Bailey is of Irish descent.  They have five 
children: Harvey M Bailey; John F Bailey; Hannah J Bailey; 
Margaret E Bailey and William R Bailey.  Mr Bailey is a 
Prohibitionist. 

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