WABASHA COUNTY, MINNESOTA
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			HISTORY OF WABASHA COUNTY


            TOGETHER WITH BIOGRAPHICAL MATTER, STATISTICS, ETC.
                   GATHERED FROM MATTER FURNISHED BY 
                       INTERVIEWS WITH OLD SETTLERS,
        COUNTY, TOWNSHIP AND OTHER RECORDS, AND EXTRACTS FROM 
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                     SOURCES AS HAVE BEEN AVAILABLE. 

                                   ALSO A 

                        HISTORY OF WINONA COUNTY

                                  CHICAGO:
                      H. H. HILL & COMPANY, PUBLISHERS.
                                     1884




  Bailey, George, Zumbro, is one of the most intelligent and substantial farmers of this township. His 
 was the second claim made and the second house built in the town. Mr. Bailey is a native of Ireland, 
 born in the parish of Lorne, County Tipperary, about 1822. He was reared on a farm, and received a 
 fair common school education. When about thirty years old he came with his fathers' family to 
 America, and engaged in farming in Iowa. Here his father died, and he set out to look up a home for 
 the family. He arrived in Zumbro (then Mazeppa) in June, 1855, and located on section 25, where his 
 home has been ever since. He now has two hundred and sixty acres here, besides twenty acres of 
 timber. On this he has placed large and handsome buildings, He had little means when he came here, 
 and has just reason for pride in the success which his labor has wrought. His religious faith 
 corresponds with that of the Wesleyan Methodists. Politically he is an independent democrat. In the 
 winter of 1859-60 he married Mary Little, born in New York of Scotch parentage. She died in 1864, 
 leaving two children, of whom only one is now living, christened Elizabeth. In 1866-7 he was married 
 to Isabel, a sister of his first wife. Her father was one of the pioneers in the adjoining town of 
 Farmington, Olmsted county. Five children have blessed this union, and are named this: Frank, 
 Andrew, John, Robert and Mabel. Mr. Bailey's parents were Thomas and Jane. The latter came here 
 in 1856, and died in 1864. Benjamin, the eldest son, took land in this town, and died in 1870, without 
 any family. Thomas and Andrew, two other sons, still reside in the town.