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B. F. Bailey is a native of the county in which he now resides, his birth occurring in 1848, being next to the youngest of six children born to the union of G. W. Bailey and Rhoda Foster, the former a native of Kentucky, and the latter of Virginia. G. W. Bailey was a farmer, and in 1838 came to what is now Moniteau County, Mo., where he entered land and afterward married. After residing here for some time he sold out and moved to Beaton County, Ark., where he also improved a farm, and resided two years on the Pea Ridge battle-ground. In 1857 he returned to Moniteau County, but sold his property there in 1872, and went to Bates County, thence to Jasper County, and in 1880 returned to Moniteau County, where he died in December, eight years later, at the age of sixty-eight years. The mother of our subject died in 1871. B. F. Bailey, our subject, received the education and rearing of the average farmer’s boy, and when twenty-five years of age began farming for himself. His marriage with Miss Mollie Price was celebrated in 1873, and he soon after located on his present farm of 137 acres. His land is well adapted to stock-raising, as Brush Creek passes diagonally through it, and his buildings are all in good repair, his dwelling house being commodious and substantial. He affiliates with the Republican party, and is a member of the Agricultural Wheel, Highland Lodge No. 1,566. He and wife belong to the Methodist Episcopal Church at California. He can remember quite distinctly when the country was in a very wild condition, and when St. Louis was the nearest railroad station, and can well remember the first locomotive he ever saw. Tiff is very plentiful on his farm, and he has also found some excellent specimens of lead ore. Mrs. Bailey’s parents, Ivan and Charlotte (Powell) Price, were born in Wales, and after coming to America settled in Ohio, and in 1868 in Moniteau County, Mo. Here the father died in December, 1873, and the mother in January of the same year.