Fayette County PA Archives Biographies.....Bailey, Rev Malachi Curtis July 31, 1848 - ????
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Source: Gresham and Wiley, 1889: Biographical & Portrait Cyclopedia, Fayette Co, PA, pg 491
Author: John H. Gresham & Samuel T. Wiley

Rev MALACHI CURTIS BAILEY, PhD, an earnest, able and 
efficient minister of the Presbyterian church, is a son of 
William S Bailey and Elizabeth Barker Bailey. He was born at 
Sandy Lake, Mercer county, Penna, July 31, 1848, and is a 
descendant of a Yankee family on both his paternal and 
maternal sides.
    His father, William S Bailey, was born in New York in 
1818, removed to Mercer county, Penna, when a young man, and 
settled on a farm. He is a democrat and a ruling elder in 
the Presbyterian church. He now resides at Leesburg, and 
near there he owns a farm of sixty five acres. W S Bailey 
married Miss Elizabeth Barker, daughter of Jason Barker, a 
farmer. They have had five children: Rev M C Bailey; William 
Newil Bailey, a physician at East Liverpool, Ohio; Ada Belle 
Bailey, wife of T J Armstrong of Leesburg; Jason Bailey 
(dead) and Everett Bailey (dead). Mrs Bailey was born April 
22, 1823, and has been a lifelong member of the Presbyterian 
church. 
    Rev M C Bailey remained on the farm until the age of 
fifteen years, when he engaged as a clerk in a store at 
Sandy Lake, and continued as such for four years. At 
nineteen years of age he engaged in a dry goods store at 
Meadville, where he clerked at intervals until 1875. In 1869 
and 1870 he attended Westminster College at Wilmington, 
Penna. From 1870 to 1875 he was a student at Allegheny 
College at Meadville. 
    During that time he was the author of the Kalamathean 
prize essay, and was also the successful one of ten 
competitors for a declamation prize, besides being elected 
in the last year valedictorian of the Franklin Literary 
Society. In 1875 he attended the Western Theological 
Seminary at Allegheny City, and studied theology for three 
years. In 1878 he was called as pastor to the Presbyterian 
church at Middletown near Harrisburg, Penna, and served 
acceptably until 1881, when he came to Fairchance, where he 
has since labored zealously and efficiently for the best 
interests of his church. 
    October 10, 1878, he was married to Miss Brightie 
Murdock, daughter of Matthew Murdock, a skilled mechanic at 
Natrona, Penna. To their union have been born three 
children: Charles Hodge Bailey; Rose Bailey and Lily Bailey 
(twins), Rose being dead.
    In 1886 M C Bailey completed the two years post graduate 
course of Wooster University, Ohio, and received the degree 
of doctor of philosophy. In 1885 he was elected stated clerk 
of the Redstone Presbytery, and in 1887 was a delegate from 
the same body to the general assembly of the Presbyterian 
church at Omaha, Nebraska.
    His charge embraced the Fairchance, Tent and 
McClellandtown churches, and includes one hundred square 
miles of territory. He has conducted over one hundred 
funerals in the last seven years, besides preaching three 
times every Sabbath. He reaches about four thousand people 
in his regular work, and through his able and practical 
sermons, published in the press of the county, addresses 
over 25,000 people. 

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