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August 14, 1657, in Dorchester. Their
youngest child, Joseph Bate, baptized
December 16, 1624, at Lydd, was living
in Dorchester in 1648, was subsequently
at "Thirty-mile Island," now Haddam,
and at Saybrook from 1669 to 1677. No
doubt he was the father of John Bate,
who died January 15, 1719, father of
Elizabeth, wife of John Bailey.
Ephraim Bailey, second son of John and
Elizabeth (Bate) Bailey, was born January
I, 1691, and lived in Haddam, where
he married, October 3, 1716, Deborah
Brainard, born April 3, 1698, eldest daughter
and second child of James and Deborah
(Dudley) Brainard, granddaughter
of Daniel Brainard, born in 1641, prob-
ably in Braintree, England, the pioneer
of Haddam.
William Bailey, eighth son of Ephraim
and Deborah (Brainard) Bailey, married
Betsey Horton, and lived in Haddam,
where his son, Christopher Bailey, was
born in March, 1756, and died April 18,
1840. He married, November 26, 1782,
his second cousin, Naomi Bailey, born
1763, died September 29, 1825, daughter
of Jacob and Elizabeth (Cook) Bailey,
granddaughter of Ephraim and Deborah
Bailey, above mentioned. Christopher
Bailey, youngest child of Christopher and
Naomi Bailey, was born December 17,
1797, in Haddam, and married, June 4,
1824, Anne Tryon, of Middletown. She
was born about 1800, and died February
17, 1871, aged seventy-one. This, probably,
led to his settlement at Middletown.
The records show a deed dated November
ID, 1826, by which he received from
Josiah M. Hubbard one and one-half
acres of land in Middletown, the consider-
ation being $13.50. Presumably he was a
mechanic, and required only ground on
which to place a residence. Lucy Maria
Bailey, daughter of Christopher and Anne
(Tryon) Bailey, was born in March, 1825,
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in Haddam, became the wife of Richard
M. Bailey, and died February 10, 1895, in
Middletown.
Richard M. Bailey, husband of Lucy
Maria Bailey, born in Haddam, and was a
mechanic residing in Middletown. From
1856 to i860 to he was in Arlington,
Vermont, and sought to prepare his son
for a worthy place in life.
Edgar L. Bailey was educated at the
public schools of Arlington and the private
school of Daniel Chase, which prepared so
many of the leading citizens of Middletown
for college and for active life. After
a course in Eastman's Business College at
Poughkeepsie, New York, Edgar L. Bailey
began his business career in the employ of
the Russell Manufacturing Company of
Middletown, with which establishment
he continued for a period of fifty-two
years. This long association is ample
evidence of his integrity, industry and
business capacity. For six years he was
employed as bookkeeper and then became
a traveling salesman, in which capacity
he continued forty-six years. Because of
his almost continuous absence from home,
Mr. Bailey had little opportunity to
mingle in the political affairs of the community
but he was an earnest Republican
in political principle and ever ready to
sustain with voice and thought that party.
He was an active member of the great
Masonic brotherhood, in which he attained
the rank of Knights Templar, and
his burial ceremonies were conducted by
the local Commandery of that branch of
the order. He died June 12, 1918, and
among his benefactions was a legacy for
the equipment of an operating room in the
Middlesex Hospital. He also left a legacy
to St. Luke's Home, one of the greatest
institutions for the alleviation of suffering
in Middletown, and also to the District
Nurses' Association, another medium of
great public good. Mr. Bailey's greatest