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Title: Albany medical annals
Year: 1898 (1890s)
Authors: Medical Society of the County of Albany (N.Y.) Albany Medical College. Alumni Association
Subjects: Medicine
Publisher: Albany, N.Y. : Burdick & Taylor
Contributing Library: The College of Physicians of Philadelphia Historical Medical Library
Digitizing Sponsor: The College of Physicians of Philadelphia and the National Endowment for the Humanities

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social qualitiesbrought him to acquaintance and intimacy with representativemembers of the profession all about the State, while in his owncommunity he was familiar with every one, and his energetic dis-position made him so certain to be a participant in every profes-sional enterprise that, as perhaps with few it can be said, that adiary in detail of his life would reflect much of the personal andprofessional biography of the medical life of his day here at homeand more extendedly about the State. The outline of the more important matters which concern hisbiography are, as of every life, of interest to make a record of. He was the son of a physician. Dr. Solomon Bailey, who wasborn in Chatham, this State, in 1774, was a fellow student inmedicine with Dr. T. Romeyn Beck in the office of Drs. Low andMcClelland here in Albany in the early part of this century, andfrom 1812 to 1839, when he died, practiced his profession in thetown of Bethlehem. Two of his sons followed his example in the
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Albany Medical Annals. 433 choice of a life work — Dr. James S. Bailey, who died here inAlbany in 1883, whose son, Dr. Theodore P. Bailey, we have nowwith us, and his brother, a few years older, who is the occasion ofthis memorial. Dr. William H. Bailey was born December 28, 1825, and, dyingon the 24th of June, 1898, was past the age of 73. He was bornin this county in the town of Bethlehem, where the early years ofhis life were spent, his fathers death occurring when he was 14years old. The education which he secured at some cost andsacrifice beyond that of the common school was obtained at theCazenovia Academy and at the Normal School of Albany. Hebecame a school teacher himself, to further his resources, in Ala-bama, where his life furnished material for much anecdote andreminiscence later. His medical study he got here in Albany and his diploma wasgiven him in 1853. He was given, years later, an honorarydegree of M. D. from Soule University, Texas, and also of LL. D.from Washing

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