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The Presbyterian Church in Iowa,
1837-1900. B Unless noted, biographies submitted by Dick Barton.
Son of Rev. T. S. and Helen M. B. Chicago, Ill., Apr. 17, 70. 92, Coe College, B. S. Post Grad. work Mich. Univ. 98, McC. T. S. Sep. 29, 97, Lic. Pres. Cedar Rapids. Apr. 20, 98, Ord. same. 98-9, Sanborn and Hartley. 99-1904, Conrad. 1905, LaPorte City. G. p. 31.
B. in O. Apr. 19, 41. Son of Benj. B. and Elizabeth Bailey. Served country in Co. A., Third Ia. Infantry, 2-1/2 years. Lost right arm at Jackson, Miss. A. B. and A. M. Iowa State University. Stud. McC. T. S. 2 years. New York 1. Grad. in 72. Ser. Epworth and Farley, 72-6. Pataskala, O., 76-9. Carroll, Ia., 79-82. Synod Miss. for Iowa 82-98. Tranquility and Salem, 99-1903. T. S. Bailey and Helen M. Gee were married July 8, 69. Children: Rev. Arthur Gee Bailey, Dr. Bert H. Bailey, Prof. Zoology, Coe College. Mary T. wife of Rev. E. E. Hastings, D.D. The honorary degree of D.D. was conferred by Coe College. Dr. B's. long service as Synodical Missionary was eminently fruitful. He organized or helped organize over a hundred churches, and dedicated or helped dedicate 130 houses of worship. His preaching was in churches, schoolhouses, private houses, R. R. depots, passenger cars, freight cars, and under the trees. He was equally at home in building up new churches, strengthening the weak, caring for the self-sacrificing toilers. When failing strength necessitated his resignation, that was accepted with universal regret. A brief and successful pastorate at Salem and Tranquility, (fit names for so sweet a spirit), and in his own house in Cedar Rapids, with the companion of his youth, he awaits the sunset call. G. p. 106. ... So, reserving the personal tributes of Harsha and Stewart and McElroy and Bailey for their proper subjects, we close this chapter with the "Heart to Heart Letter" of Dr. Bailey: A Heart to Heart Letter I am asked for a heart to heart communication for our Iowa Presbyterian History. There arises before me in imagination a grand and noble company of ministers, elders and laymen all over our beautiful state, who have made our growth and prosperity as a church possible by their constant, consistent, and united efforts, each standing in his place steadfastly, making our ranks strong and our progress sure. I cannot enumerate these faithful ministers and must not discriminate where, almost without exception, they were all so good and true. During my sixteen years of service as Synodical Superintendent of home Missions, I came into close touch with these men and women (for the wives of our Home Missionaries are full sharers in the trials and triumphs of the grand work to which their husbands consecrate themselves), in the midst of the battle for Truth and Righteousness. I am persuaded that no state or country has now or has had a more uniformly earnest, faithful and self-sacrificing set of missionary workers than Iowa. True, there are some men who were at pivotal, strategic points in the development of the work, who by reason of their location and spirit played a larger part than others who were just as true on more quiet fields. In the earliest times there were Bells, Beamans, McElroys, Speeses, Masons, Phelpses, Wellses, Dodds, Dodders, McCombs, Dinsmores, Jonses, Rices, Craigs, Marshalls, etc., who lifted the blue banner of our church along the borders and at strategic points in the interior. So there were Carrolls Campbells, Bairds, Osmonds, Robinsons, Hugheses, Rustons, Clelands, Averys, Burkhalters, McRaes, McClintocks, McAfees, etc., to take up the well-begun work and push it forward with a zeal becoming consecrated men that they all were. So about my time I found a fine company of younger men like Evans, Luccock, Stophlet, Greene, Knox, Coyles, Berger and a host of others of noble spirit and power. These men made my work easy and my burdens light in ways without number, God knows, though the world may never realize, how fully such men as these held up the hands of the Synodical Missionary and made our church strong. To name them all in detail and tell of their virtues and graces would impose on me as impossible a task as that which confronted the author of the Epistle to the Hebrews when in the eleventh chapter he attempts to recount the triumphs of faith. I dare not undertake it. Let it suffice for the present to thank God for their lives, and work and pray that those who come after may emulate their zeal and spirit of faithfulness. T. S. Bailey. Ser. Bonaparte, Sharon, Primrose, 88-90. Bridgewater, Ill., 91. D. March, 13, 94. Age 38. B. Switzerland, 47. Lic. and Ord. by Cong. Assoc. Pas. Ger. Chs. in Wisconsin and Ill. Prof. Theol. in Dubuque The. Sem., 84-90. Chap. U. S. Army, 62-5. In St. Paul , Minn. , 1906. B. Milwaukee , Wis. Du. Ia., B. A. 86. Du. T. S. 89. Lic. 89, Pres. Freeport. Ord. 89, Pres. Du. P. Rowley, Ia. , 89-94. Unity I. C. Pres., 94-1900. Of revolutionary stock. His grandfather gave his life for the country that was yet to be. B. 1799. Became a Christian at the age of 24. Union C. 28. And. Sem., 31. Ord., 31, Pres. N. Y. Labored in hard fields in Ohio till 46. Came to Iowa . Org. Montrose, Croton, Dover , and other churches. Preached wherever he could find a hearing. He wrestled with the Mormon power at Nauvoo, and saw its downfall. Later he fought the infidelity that followed. On the border line he endured the trials peculiar to the Civil War. At the battle of Athens confederate bullets whistled over his head. These are jottings he made in his old age: �By the grace of God, I have been able to preach over 4,000 sermons. Have organized or assisted in organization of 8 churches. Admitted by letter 116 members; on examination, 207. Attended 300 funerals. Married 227 couples. Fees $434.� (Marrying was a cheap luxury in his day.) As to the help he had, A single expression from his wife must do: �The new western home was a log cabin 16x18 fitly furnished. Entering with her husband, she looked smilingly around and said, �Yes, I agree to live here one year without grumbling.� In old age she wrote, �There is no part of our married life I look back upon with more pleasure than our first years in Iowa .� Her maiden name was Elizabeth Jacobs. Mr. B. D. at Keosauqua, Oct. 26, 75 . Age 76. Dr. Craig said at his funeral, �He was indeed one of the Soldiers of the Cross, and he had stood during his entire ministerial life on the high places of the field, and in the forefront of the battle.� G. p. 69. Appears in Assembly minutes only from 72 to 76. Waterloo Pres., at Johnson's Grove, 72. Nevada 73-6. H. R. Ap. in 60. Ser. Montezuma and Millersburg, 60-1. M. and South Ridge, 62. Rock Creek and Corinth, 63-7. W. C., 68-9. West Irving, 70-2. In trans., 2 years. Drops from minutes. Davenport
in 74. Ser.
Summit and Eldridge, 74-6.
Col. Junc. [Columbus Central (Junction)], 77.
D. Aug. 17, 77. Age
62. Lic. 89. Ord. Waterloo Pres., 90. Ser. Conrad, 90-1. Montana to Oregon. Res. 1906, Clatskanie, Ore. Ap.
At Lime Springs, 77-9. W. C., 80.
D. May 27, 81. B. Jewett, O. Nov. 8, 50. Wayne C. B. A., 74. W. T. S., 77. Lic., 76. Ord., Oct. 77, Pres. Des Moines. Ser. Earlham and Dexter, 77-82. Montezuma, 82-4. Brooklyn, 84-6. Kan., 87-90. Ida Grove, 91-6. Wapello and Oakland, 97-9. Utah, 1900. Conrad, Ia., 1906. |
