He served in the Civil War.
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James Murray Bailey was born in Vermont, the son of James Wilson and Elizabeth (Whitcomb) Bailey. His father was a Universalist minister and James was to follow in his father's career path.
While in college, he enlisted in the Union Army in 1863. He was assigned first to Ft. McHenry in Baltimore, then guarded prisoners for a time in Northern Virginia. Later, at the Battle of Cold Harbor, he suffered an arm wound which left him with no use of his right hand for the remainder of his life.
He finished college and went into the ministry serving churches in Troy, New York; Titusville, Pennsylvania; Peoria, Illinois; and, finally, in Cincinnati, Ohio. At this time, citing ill health, he changed careers, moving to Tucson, Arizona where he became a mining engineer. After Tucson, he moved to San Francisco where he resided until his death.
He and his wife, Belinda Schneider, had five children, but three died in their youth. A son became a traffic manager for the California Department of Highways and a daughter, Vivian, graduated from Stanford with a degree in English. A sister of James Murray, Emma Bailey, also became a Universalist minister, one of the first women so ordained in any denomination in the United States.
(Bio courtesy of Find A Grave member # 49159312.)
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James Murray Bailey was born in Vermont, the son of James Wilson and Elizabeth (Whitcomb) Bailey. His father was a Universalist minister and James was to follow in his father's career path.
While in college, he enlisted in the Union Army in 1863. He was assigned first to Ft. McHenry in Baltimore, then guarded prisoners for a time in Northern Virginia. Later, at the Battle of Cold Harbor, he suffered an arm wound which left him with no use of his right hand for the remainder of his life.
He finished college and went into the ministry serving churches in Troy, New York; Titusville, Pennsylvania; Peoria, Illinois; and, finally, in Cincinnati, Ohio. At this time, citing ill health, he changed careers, moving to Tucson, Arizona where he became a mining engineer. After Tucson, he moved to San Francisco where he resided until his death.
He and his wife, Belinda Schneider, had five children, but three died in their youth. A son became a traffic manager for the California Department of Highways and a daughter, Vivian, graduated from Stanford with a degree in English. A sister of James Murray, Emma Bailey, also became a Universalist minister, one of the first women so ordained in any denomination in the United States.
(Bio courtesy of Find A Grave member # 49159312.)
He served in the Civil War.
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James Murray Bailey was born in Vermont, the son of James Wilson and Elizabeth (Whitcomb) Bailey. His father was a Universalist minister and James was to follow in his father's career path.
While in college, he enlisted in the Union Army in 1863. He was assigned first to Ft. McHenry in Baltimore, then guarded prisoners for a time in Northern Virginia. Later, at the Battle of Cold Harbor, he suffered an arm wound which left him with no use of his right hand for the remainder of his life.
He finished college and went into the ministry serving churches in Troy, New York; Titusville, Pennsylvania; Peoria, Illinois; and, finally, in Cincinnati, Ohio. At this time, citing ill health, he changed careers, moving to Tucson, Arizona where he became a mining engineer. After Tucson, he moved to San Francisco where he resided until his death.
He and his wife, Belinda Schneider, had five children, but three died in their youth. A son became a traffic manager for the California Department of Highways and a daughter, Vivian, graduated from Stanford with a degree in English. A sister of James Murray, Emma Bailey, also became a Universalist minister, one of the first women so ordained in any denomination in the United States.
(Bio courtesy of Find A Grave member # 49159312.)
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James Murray Bailey was born in Vermont, the son of James Wilson and Elizabeth (Whitcomb) Bailey. His father was a Universalist minister and James was to follow in his father's career path.
While in college, he enlisted in the Union Army in 1863. He was assigned first to Ft. McHenry in Baltimore, then guarded prisoners for a time in Northern Virginia. Later, at the Battle of Cold Harbor, he suffered an arm wound which left him with no use of his right hand for the remainder of his life.
He finished college and went into the ministry serving churches in Troy, New York; Titusville, Pennsylvania; Peoria, Illinois; and, finally, in Cincinnati, Ohio. At this time, citing ill health, he changed careers, moving to Tucson, Arizona where he became a mining engineer. After Tucson, he moved to San Francisco where he resided until his death.
He and his wife, Belinda Schneider, had five children, but three died in their youth. A son became a traffic manager for the California Department of Highways and a daughter, Vivian, graduated from Stanford with a degree in English. A sister of James Murray, Emma Bailey, also became a Universalist minister, one of the first women so ordained in any denomination in the United States.
(Bio courtesy of Find A Grave member # 49159312.)
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