Chester County PA Archives Biographies.....Dr. Abraham BAILY, 1760-1825
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from Futhey and Cope's History of Chester County (1881)

   DR. ABRAHAM BAILY, son of Joel and Elizabeth (Marshall) Baily, 
was born in West Bradford township, CHester Co., about one and a 
half miles south of Marshallton, Sept. 5, 1760. He received an 
English and classical education from teachers employed in the 
family. He studied medicine under Dr. Nicholas Way, of Wilmington, 
Del., and was a fellow-student with his cousin, Dr. Moses Marshall. 
While a student he had an opportunity of becoming practically 
familiar with surgery immediately after the disastrous battle of 
Brandywine, in 1777. He attended lectures at the medical school of 
Philadelphia, but took no degree. Shortly after leaving lectures 
Dr. Baily went as surgeon in a privateer vessel-of-war, and during 
the cruise visited France. On his return he engaged in the practice 
of medicine at his native place, until about the year 1789, when, 
in company with Humphrey Hill and Cadwallader Evans (under the firm 
name of Baily, Hill & Evans), he engaged in the iron business. They 
rented the Andover Works, in Sussex County, N. J., where they 
continued five or six years, but the enterprise resulted 
unfortunately. While in Jersey he was chosen captain of a troop of 
horse, and in 1794 marched with his troop over the Alleghany 
Mountains in the expedition to quell the so-called Whisky Rebellion. 
Soon after this he returned to Chester County and resumed the 
practice of medicine, until the year 1800, when he opened a store 
in Marshallton and continued a limited medical practice for a number 
of years. While the seat of government was at Lancaster he was 
elected a member of the house of Rep resentatives, after its removal 
to Harrisburg he was elected to the Senate. Some time after his term 
in the Senate he was appointed a justice of the peace, which 
appointment he held until his death. Dr. Baily was twice married. 
His first wife was Phebe Carpenter, and his second marriage, Oct. 22, 
1802, to Rachel Carpenter, both daughters of John and Hannah Carpenter, 
of West Bradford. By his first wife he had six children, and four by 
his second. Eliza A. Baily, the eldest child by his second wife, 
married Jonathan Gause; Margaretta (now Harlan), theh second daughter 
by the second eife, married Joel Harlan, of Newlin township.
    When Gen. Lafayette visited the Brandywine battlefield and West 
Chester, July 26, 1825, Dr. Baily was one of the committee appointed 
to escort him, and being on horseback nearly all day, occasioned an 
irritation of the neck of the bladder, which produced a painful and 
obstinate retention of urine and inflammation of the parts, that 
resulted in his death, Aug. 13, 1825, at the age of nearly sixty-five 
years. Dr. Baily was a respectable physician, an upright magistrate, 
an enlightened public citizen, and an honest man.



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