Kentucky: A History of the State, Battle, Perrin, & Kniffin, 5th ed., 
1887, Woodford Co.

JAMES T. BAILEY was born June 19, 1836, and is the second son of
Benjamin and Susan A. (Craig) Bailey, natives of Shelby and Woodford 
Counties, Ky.  The father was born in 1798, and removed to Woodford 
County in 1828, and was a merchant in Versailles.  He died September 
22, 1864.  The maternal grandfather, James Craig, was a native of 
Virginia, and son of Joseph Craig, who was imprisoned for preaching 
the Baptist doctrine.  He was a native of Virginia, and came to Fayette 
County, Ky., about 1820, and afterward to Woodford.  James T. Bailey 
was born and reared in Versailles, received a common school education, 
but was in Transylvania University, at Lexington, two years.  He became 
a clerk for his father on leaving college, then began mercantile 
business on his own account in 1858; from 1862 to 1872 he was on a 
farm, but returned to merchandising in 1872; he was married, February 
28, 1860, to Miss Ellen Coit, a native of New York City, and there have 
been born to this union three children: Lizzie, Carrie and Alice.  Mr. 
Bailey is now in the boot, shoe, and furnishing goods business and has 
been since 1882.  He is a member of the Working Men's Labor League or 
United Workmen.

Bailey Craig Coit
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Shelby-KY Fayette-KY NY VA

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