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BAILEY, BAILEY. 29 Joseph Herbert (deceased), and William Francis Bacon. In addition to the offices named. Mr. Bacon has been director of the Citizens' Mutual Insurance Company from its com- mencement ; trustee of Euphrates College, Harpoot, Turkey, and deacon of the Eliot Congregational church. In 1838 Mr. Bacon made a prospecting tour West, as far as Cincinnati and Louis- ville, doing half the distance by coach, canal and steamboat, and decided that the East was more desirable for residence. In politics he was a Whig until 1848, when he voted for Martin Van Buren and Charles Francis Adams, as a " Conscience Whig." He became a Republican in 1856, when that party absorbed the " Conscience Whigs." He has ever voted the Republi- can ticket, with the single exception of 1SS4, when distrust of the Republican candidate for president led him to vote with the Prohibitionists. Mr. Bacon has erected several fine blocks of buildings that add much to the beauty and valuation of his native place. He is conservative in his action, and what- ever offices he has held have come to him entirely unsolicited. He has never been swept into the whirl of active struggle for political preferment, chiefly from his dis- like of the questionable methods and prac- tices frequently associated with it. BAILEY, Dudley Perkins, the son of Rev. Dudley P. Bailey, a Baptist clergy- man, was born in Cornville, Somerset count)-, Maine, October 24, 1843. He received his elementary education in the district schools of Hartland and Monson, Maine, and also at Monson Academy. In the summer of 1864 he entered Waterville College, now Colby University, and gradu- ated with the class of 1867. He then commenced the study of law with Hon. William L. Putnam at Portland, Maine, and continued with him till 1S70, in May of which year he opened an office for the practice of law at Freeport, Maine, having been admitted to the bar at Port- land, April 28, 1870. In October, 1870, he removed to Port- land, and practiced law there until March, 1872 ; he then opened a law office in Everett and also subsequently in Boston, both of which he still retains. He was a member of the House of Rep- resentatives in 1886 and 1887, and served as House chairman of the committee on taxation both years ; also served on the committee on probate and insolvency in 18S7. Mr. Bailey has never married. He is a member of the Palestine Lodge F. & A. M., Everett and Tabernacle Chapter of Royal Arch Masons, Maiden. He has been treasurer of the First Bap- tist church in Everett since 1878, member of the school board of Everett, 1873-74, 1876-80, and from 1882 until the present time. He has been chairman of the same from 18S6. He is a trustee of Everett public library, and has been secretary of the board since 1878. In 1868 Mr. Bailey was awarded the first prize offered by the American Free Trade League to the undergraduates of American DUDLEY P. BAILEY. colleges for the best essay in favor of free trade. He was formerly (1867-72) connected with the " Portland Press," and has been an occasional contributor to various other newspapers. He is also author of various articles, mostly financial, for magazines : first in the " American Exchange and Re- view " of Philadelphia, and afterwards in the " Banker's Magazine " of New York. Among these may be mentioned : " Public Expenditure, Debt and Taxation ; " " Paper Money and Commerce in Russia;" "Na- tional Banks or a National Bank;" "His- torical Sketch of Banking in Massachu- setts ; " The Currency and Commerce of