BIO: Charles C. BAILEY, Clearfield County, PA
 
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From Twentieth Century History of Clearfield County, Pennsylvania,
and Representative Citizens, by Roland D. Swoope, Jr.,
Chicago: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Company, 1911, pages 462 & 463.
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  CHARLES C. BAILEY, general farmer and owner of 128 acres of valuable land, 
situated three miles north of Curwensville, Pa., in Pike township, Clearfield 
county, was born on this farm, December 17, 1868, and is a son of Joseph and 
Elizabeth (Boal) Bailey.
  Joseph Bailey was born also in Pike township, where his parents, Daniel and 
Jane Bailey, were early settlers.  He attended school in this township and also 
at Curwensville, after which he assisted his father on the home farm until his 
own marriage.  He then lived for a time on a part of Abraham Bailey's estate, 
later buying the farm of 128 acres from Isaac Bailey and completing its 
clearing.  He gradually acquired other farms until he owned about 500 acres, 
only a part of which, however, was put under cultivation.  He married Elizabeth 
Boal, a daughter of James Boal, of Center county, Pa., and six children were 
born to them, as follows:  Mary Alice, who is the wife of Vincent Spencer, of 
Curwensville; Martha Jane, who is the wife of Jonathan Ogden, of Lawrence 
township; James Dorsey, who married Mary Neeper, of Lawrence township; Annie 
G., who married twice, first Charles Boyd and second William Vangavich; Charles 
C.; and George Boyd, who died when two years of age.  The father of the above 
family died in October, 1901, at the age of seventy-eight years, seven months 
and eleven days, having survived his wife for many years.  Her death took place 
in October, 1877, at the age of forty-three years.  Their burial was in the 
Center cemetery.  Both were members of the Center Methodist Episcopal church.
  Charles C. Bailey obtained his education at Curwensville, Pleasant Grove 
school house and at Clearfield, after which he taught school for some time in 
the same sections where he had been a pupil.  Mr. Bailey remembers this season 
as a very pleasant part of his life, but farming and stock raising have been of 
still more importance and after his marriage he settled on his present home in 
preference to any other.  He made many improvements here, remodeled the 
buildings and added modern comforts.  In addition to his home farm he owns 
forty acres in another part of Pike township, a one-half interest in another 
tract of thirty-five acres and a one-fifth interest in one of fifty-seven 
acres, all these being parts of his father's estate.  Mr. Bailey is a 
stockholder in the Farmers and Traders Bank, of Clearfield, and a stockholder 
in the Curwensville Rural Telephone Company.
  On November 30, 1893, Mr. Bailey was married to Miss Myrtle E. Leslie, who 
was born in Clarion county, Pa., September 13, 1868, a daughter of Noah and 
Mary Elizabeth (Mesner) Leslie, who reside near Home Camp, in Clearfield 
county.  Mr. and Mrs. Bailey have had two children.  Walter S., born in May, 
1895, is a member of the class of 1914 in the Curwensville High School; and 
Lillian Elizabeth, who was born in 1901 and died in 1902, being laid to rest by 
the side of her grandparents in the Center cemetery.  In politics Mr. Bailey is 
a Republican.  He belongs to Susquehannah Grange at Curwensville.  He is one of 
the representative men of this section, is widely known and enjoys the esteem 
and warm friendship of his fellow citizen.