Blair County PA Archives Biographies.....Bailey, Robert F. April 27, 1893 - 
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Source: History of Blair County, PA, Vol. II, 1931
Author: Tarring Davis

  ROBERT F. BAILEY, superintendent of the meter department for the Penn Central 
Light & Power Company, is a native of State College, Pa., where he was born 
April 27, 1893.  Thomas Scott Bailey, his father, was born at Pine Grove Mills, 
Centre County, Pa., and spent the greater part of his life as a coachmaker at 
State College, where he erected the fifth house in that village and where his 
death occurred in 1914.  He married Mary Elizabeth Glenn, who was born on a farm 
near Lamont, Pa., and died in December, 1929, and to them were born the 
following children: Edgar Warren, Robert F., Sue, Glen D., Maude M., Nan M,, and 
Mary E.  Robert F. Bailey attended the graded and high schools of State College 
and then matriculated at Pennsylvania State College, from which he graduated in 
1916.  For a year thereafter, he was employed by the Public Service Electric 
Company, of Perth Amboy, New Jersey, and on September 20, 1917, he came to the 
Penn Central Light & Power Company as power meter inspector, a position which he 
held until he became superintendent of the meter department in 1923.  His 
fraternal affiliations are with the Masonic fraternity, and he is a communicant 
of the Broad Avenue Presbyterian Church.  Mr. Bailey married Ellen Vipond, 
daughter of William J. and Katherine Vipond, of Clearfield, Pa., and to Mr. and 
Mrs. Bailey have been born two children: William V. and James R.

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