History of Hendricks County, Indiana, her people, industries and institutions . ation who have wonhonor and public recognition for themselves in Hendricks county, and at thesame time have honored the locality to which they belong, would be incom-plete were there failure to make specific mention of Marion Bailey, of Uniontownship. The qualities which have made him one of the prominent andsuccessful men of Hendricks county have also brought him the esteem of hisfellow men, for his career has been one of well directed energy, strong de-termination and honorable methods. Yet he has not neglected t
History of Hendricks County, Indiana, her people, industries and institutions . ation who have wonhonor and public recognition for themselves in Hendricks county, and at thesame time have honored the locality to which they belong, would be incom-plete were there failure to make specific mention of Marion Bailey, of Uniontownship. The qualities which have made him one of the prominent andsuccessful men of Hendricks county have also brought him the esteem of hisfellow men, for his career has been one of well directed energy, strong de-termination and honorable methods. Yet he has not neglected to take hispart in the public life of his community. Marion Bailey, the president of the Lizton Bank and vice-president ofthe Citizens State Bank at Jamestown, was born December i, 1854, nearSt. Paul. His parents were John and Catherine (Emdy) Bailey. John Bai-ley was born in Butler county, Ohio, September 19, 1827, and came with hisparents to Shelby county, Indiana, when a small boy. In 1861 John Baileywith his family, moved to this county and settled in L^nion township near. MR. AND MRS. MARION BAILEY HENDRICKS COUNTY, INDIANA. 769 Lizton, where he followed the life of a farmer and stock raiser until his deathin 1902. The wife of John Bailey was a native of Shelby county, Indiana,and died in 1855, when Marion was only one year of age. John Bailey wasthe father of fourteen children: Mrs. Elizabeth Smith; Sarah, who died atthe age of two; Mrs. Eva A. Campbell, and Marion, whose history is hereindelineated, are the children of his first wife, Catherine Emdy. Mrs. MaryE. Dale; George W.; Peter N.; Mrs. Ellen Hall; Mrs. Nettie Hedge; E. Lee; Edgar; William, w^ho died at the age of three; John T., andone child which died in infancy, are children by his second marriage, to Re-becca J. Reed. Marion Bailey was given a good education in the schools of Lizton andJamestown and assisted his father on the farm until his marriage, at the ageof twenty-three. He was married November 1
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