The History of the Yakima Valley, Washington, Comprising Yakima, Kittitas and
Benton Counties, The S.J. Clarke Publishing Co., 1919, Volume II, page 1052 

EARL W. BAILEY.

The fruit growing industry in the Yakima valley has of late taken exceedingly
forward strides and among the younger successful orchardists of this district is
numbered Earl W. Bailey, a native of Illinois, who was born in Dixon, March 20,
1887, and is a son of Duane W. and Julia G. (Graves) Bailey, both natives of
Rupert, Vermont. They removed to Illinois in their youth and there Duane W.
Bailey followed agricultural pursuits until 1889, when he went to Nebraska,
where he continued to engage in farming until he passed away in 1900. His widow
removed to Seattle in 1909.

Earl W. Bailey was only two years of age when his parents took up their abode in
Nebraska and in that state he received his education. Early in life he became
acquainted with agricultural labor and later took over his father's farm,
operating the same until 1907, when he came to the Yakima valley, where he
worked for wages for a few years. In 1912, however, he acquired title to forty
acres on the upper Naches and now has twenty-five acres, largely in apples, but
also has some of his land in peaches and pears. The rest of the ranch is devoted
to alfalfa. Mr. Bailey has embraced all the latest methods in orcharding in
order to obtain good results. He has built an excellent barn on the property and
also a packing house, these improvements denoting the forward strides he has
made toward success. He also has a good modern residence, conveniently arranged.

On the 8th of February, 1913, Mr. Bailey was united in marriage to Miss Jennie
B. Wallin, of Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin. She is a daughter of A. C. and Mary
E. (King) Wallin and by her marriage has become the mother of two children, of
whom Beldon died in infancy, while Duane Wallin is five years of age.

Politically Mr. Bailey is a republican but outside of his service as a member of
the school board has not held any public office. Both he and his wife attend the
Presbyterian church, in the growth of which they take a helpful interest, while
fraternally Mr. Bailey is connected with the Masons, being a member of the blue
lodge and also the Modern Woodmen of America. Along the line of his occupation
he is connected with the Horticultural Union of Yakima County and in that
organization often receives new ideas, also readily giving the value of his
experience to others. Although a comparatively young man, Mr. Bailey has already
attained financial independence and a prosperous future may be predicted for
him.

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Submitted to the Washington Bios Project in January 2008 by Jeffrey L. Elmer.
Submitter has no additional information about the subject of this article.