Clark, Robert Carlton, Ph.D. "History of the Willamette Valley Oregon."  Vol. 2.
Chicago: Chapman Publishing Company, 1927. p. 206.
 
HON. EDWARD F. BAILEY
 
     Hon. Edward F. Bailey, who ranks with the foremost members of the Lane
county bar, is also widely and favorably known through his service in the state
legislature and the senate.   He represents the third generation of the   family
in Lane county.   He was born February 25, 1891, on a ranch five miles southwest
of Junction City and is a son of Thomas H. and Anna (Flint) Bailey, highly
esteemed residents of Eugene.   His mother was horn in Missouri and his father
was born in 1857, at Bailey Hill, southwest of Eugene.   The great-grandfather,
Thomas Bailey, migrated to Oregon from Kentucky and his family numbered six
children: John, Sam, Isaac, Blackgrove, Zeke and Elizabeth.   The grandfather,
John Bailey, made the overland journey to the Pacific northwest in 1847 and
returned to the south by the isthmus route.   He became a permanent resident of
Lane county in 1850 and took up a donation claim. Subsequently he purchased a
tract of land known as the Bailey Hill place and devoted the remainder of his
life to its improvement, passing away in 1895.  He was a public-spirited citizen
and donated the land for Oak Hill cemetery, in which his father and other
members of the family were laid to rest. By his first marriage he had five
children: Joseph, who was killed by Indians; Scott, also deceased; Thomas H.;
Ellen, now Mrs. J. R. Hill, of Eugene; and Mary, the deceased wife of Thomas
Lindley.   By his second union John Bailey had a family of six children, John
and Louisa  (Kayser)  Flint, the maternal grandparents of Edward F. Bailey, were
California pioneers and in the ‘70s  came to Oregon.  To Thomas H. and Anna
(Flint) Bailey were born six children: John, who died in boyhood; Elsie Leone,
the wife of C. A. Doran, of Portland, Oregon, and the mother of two children ;
Edward F.; Louise Grace, who married J. B. Stam, of Portland, and has two
children; Mary Ellen, the wife of H. A. Moore, of Portland, and the mother of
one child; and Wright K., who died in infancy.
 
     Edward F. Bailey was a pupil in the Lower Fern Ridge and Harpole schools
and afterward attended the Franklin school for one term. He received a diploma
from the Eugene high school and in 1913 was graduated from the University of
Oregon. He was a student at the university law school in Portland, Oregon, for
two years and was then admitted to the bar. While attending the State University
he took a prominent part in athletic sports and joined the Phi Delta Theta
fraternity. He was one of the founders of the Delta Sigma society, which later
became the Phi Delta Theta Chapter. After completing his education Mr. Bailey
located in Albany, Oregon, and was associated with the law firm of Weatherford &
Weather-ford until June, 1917, when he responded to the call to the colors,
enlisting in the marine corps. He was in training for fourteen months on Mare
island and in August, 1919, was honorably discharged, at which time he was
holding the rank of first lieutenant. Mr. Bailey then went to Seattle,
Washington, and accepted a position in the office of the Fisher Flouring Mills
Company. In May, 1920, he returned to Lane county and has since maintained a law
office in Junction City. He is an able attorney, strong in argument and logical
in his deductions, and has been accorded a liberal clientele.
 
     On October 25, 1919, Mr. Bailey married Miss Helen Lee Rosenberg, who was
born in Missouri but was taken to Washington in her infancy. She is a daughter
of Edward and Inda (Corbin) Rosenberg, residents of Seattle, Washington, and has
become the mother of a son, John Edward, who was born in Junction City.
 
     Mr. Bailey is an adherent of the democratic party. In 1923 was chosen to
represent his district in the lower house of the Oregon assembly and in the same
year introduced the anti-alien land bill and in 1927 he became a member of the
state senate. He never forgets that he is a servant of the people and exhibits a
zealous and watchful regard of public rights, espousing the moral side of every
issue. He belongs to the American Legion and since 1924 has been a member of the
World War Veterans State Aid Commission. He is a member of Phi Delta Phi, a
legal fraternity, and a past master of the Junction City Lodge of Masons. He is
also identified with the Knights of Pythias and the Woodmen of the World. Mr.
Bailey is a fine type of American manhood and citizenship, and what he has
accomplished represents the fit utilization of his innate powers and talents.

     
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