Stephens-Franklin-Habersham County GaArchives News.....Biographical Sketches--Col. W. A. Bailey October 15, 1908
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The Toccoa Record, Toccoa, Stephens County, Georgia October 15, 1908
The Toccoa Record, 15 Oct 1908, p. 1.  

Biographical SketchesA feature of THE RECORD for the next few months will be 
a series of biographical sketches of prominent citizens of Stephens County.  
In most cases a portrait will accompany the sketch.  We inaugurate this 
department this week with biographies of Dr. J. L. Pendley, the well known 
jeweler and optometrist, and Col. W. A. Bailey, Clerk of the Superior Court of 
Stephens County.


 Col. W. A. Bailey.   To no man in Toccoa public life perhaps could the old 
trite saying, He's self-made, be applied with more correctness than to Col. 
William Asbury Bailey, at present clerk of the Superior Court of Stephens 
county.

Col. Bailey is yet a young manborn in the lower part of Franklin county, 
April 28th, 1875scarce yet at the prime of life, and  his public career, yet  
young, is destined, so his friends and followers think, to grow in emolument 
each year, for as Court Clerk he has made an enviable record.  The large 
popular vote given  him in  his 2nd and 3rd race attest this fact, for he has 
carried the county by a large majority each time, having practically no 
opposition . . . [missing words]

And Col. Bailey is entirely a Toccoa product, if such a term can be applied 
to a man.  He came to Toccoa in 1895, first as a clerk with the firm of 
Vickery, Canon & Co., where he remained during 1896 and '97.  During the 
following year he had the Texas fever, and went West; but his heart yearned 
too fondly for the hills of Habersham, and  he stayed west only a short 
while, returned here and was with Vickery Bros. and W. C. Edwards a few 
months, at the desk, when he seemed to have made up his mind that he was not 
destined for business.  We find him in Atlanta, a clerk in the legislature 
during the fall session of 1898.  Afterwards he read law under Col. Chas. L. 
Bass, who was at that time located in Toccoa, and later completed his legal 
readings under Judge Jones, was admitted to the bar in June, 1901, and was 
buckling down to a legal life, when the fight for a new county [Stephens] came 
on.

In this he took an active and efficient part, and was selected by the vmters 
of the new county to become its chief clerk.

Col. Bailey is a prominent Odd Fellow, a good Red Man, and a Royal Arch Mason, 
being a member of the Commandery at Gainesville, and Yaarab Temple, 
A.A.O.N.M.S., Atlanta.  He is a constituent and useful member of the Baptist 
Church here, and besides an upright and useful citizen, is a valued member of 
Toccoa's social world.  Indeed, we do not know but that the near future may 
see him led from the paths of lone bachelorhood into the vast sweet ways of 
the Benedict, and some fair Toccoa lassie the leader, though of course as to 
that we have no authentic data.


[The other biography on this date was of Mr. J. L. Pendley.  Photos of both 
men appeared at the top of this article.]


Transcribed by June Coker McNew, January 2011.  




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