San Joaquin County Biographies
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HARRY T. BAILEY
Descended, on both his father's and his mother's side, from an honored ancestry prominent in Revolutionary days, and the son of one of Stockton's earliest settlers, Harry T. Bailey was born at Stockton, December 10, 1875. His parents were Andrew J. and Sarah J. (Allen) Bailey, the former a native of Vermont and the latter of Connecticut. Both the Bailey and Allen families were prominent in colonial days, and were well-known for the aid they rendered during the American Revolution, the father being a direct descendant of Joseph Bailey and the mother a descendant of Ethan Allen. Both parents came to California by way of the Isthmus of Panama in 1852, and later were married here. For many years they were residents of Stockton, and there Mrs. Bailey died in 1908. She was prominent in the circles of Daughters of the American Revolution, and through her, as well as through his father, Harry T. Bailey is eligible to membership in the Sons of the Revolution. Coming to Stockton as one of its pioneer settlers, Andrew J. Bailey followed farming on a large scale and also mined in the motherlode country, passing away in 1909 at the age of ninety-one. This pioneer couple were the parents of four children: Mrs. Lottie M. Walter, of Oakland; Ed. J., of Oakland; Phoebe, deceased at eighteen years of age; and Harry T., of this sketch.
Harry T. Bailey was educated in the schools of Stockton, Los Angeles and Pleasanton, and took a business course in Heald's Business College at San Francisco. At the age of eighteen he started in to earn his own living, and was assistant postmaster at Pleasanton and also employed as a drug clerk there. For two years, in 1896 and 1897, he was bookkeeper for the Abramosky Grocery Company at Jackson, Amador County, and then came back to Pleasanton, where for two more years he did clerical work. From there he went to San Francisco, where he was chief accountant with the Empire Laundry Company, and then with the Metropolitan Laundry Company, for four years. During the reconstruction period of San Francisco, after the disastrous fire, he was with the H. Rosenkranz Hardware Company as a salesman, and later was transportation manager of the Crown Columbia Paper Company of the bay metropolis. In 1909, he was appointed auditor of the Bay Cities Telephone Company of San Francisco, now the Pacific Telegraph & Telephone Company, remaining with them until he received a similar appointment with J.H. Adams of Los Angeles.
Coming to Lodi in 1912, Mr. Bailey engaged in the dairy business and in raising cattle, sheep and hogs on the Henry Beckman ranch. In 1920 he discontinued these lines in order to develop the ranch into vineyard and orchard property, planting 120 acres to Tokay grapes, thirty acres to wine grapes, seven acres to cherries, and ten acres to almonds and plums. He had become associated with the Superior Manufacturing Company in 1919, as its secretary, and this responsible post he resigned on December 9, 1922, in order to give closer attention to his fruit ranch and his other interests, among which is that of special representative of the New York Life Insurance Company; he resigned particularly in order to accept his present important position as field manager for the Woodbridge Fruit Company, under Freeman B. Mills. He is also director in the Beckman, Welch & Thompson Company of Lodi.
Mr. Bailey's marriage, which occurred in 1911 at Lodi, united him with Miss Eva M. Beckman, daughter of the late Henry Beckman, one of San Joaquin County's honored pioneers; and they are the parents of a son, Howard Lewis Bailey. Prominent in government activities during the World War, Mr. Bailey was a member of the Liberty Loan committee for Lodi, which covered eight square miles of territory. He is a member of the Lodi Rotary Club; the Moquelumne Club; Lodi Parlor, N.S.G.W.; the Elks Lodge, No. 218, of Stockton; and Woodbridge Lodge, No. 131, F. & A.M.
History of
SAN JOAQUIN COUNTY
CALIFORNIA
With A
Biographical Review
of
The Leading Men and Women of the County Who Have Been
Identified with Its Growth and Development
from the Early Days to the Present
HISTORY BY
George H. Tinkham
HISTORIC RECORD COMPANY
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA
1923
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