William Martin Bailey and Louisa Hovis

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Husband William Martin Bailey ^{1 2}

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           Born: 15 Dec 1855 - Irwin Twp, Venango Co, PA 1
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         Father: Robert Bailey, Jr. (Abt 1815-      ) 1 3
         Mother: Eliza J. Dugan (Abt 1815-      ) 3

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       Marriage: Abt 1879

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Wife Louisa Hovis ⁴

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            AKA: Louise Hovis 2
           Born:  - Clintonville, Clinton Twp, Venango Co, PA
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         Father: H. Perry Hovis (1835-1895) 4 5 6
         Mother: Elizabeth Sowash (1837-1920) 6

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Children

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1 F Lucile Bailey ⁴

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         Spouse: Charles Woodcock (      -      ) 4

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2 F Luella Bailey ⁴

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         Spouse: Elmer Dunham (      -      ) 4

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3 M James Martin Bailey ⁴

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4 M Domer Jacob Bailey ⁴

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           Born: Abt 1890 - Venango Co, PA
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         Spouse: Candace C. Lane (Abt 1893-      ) 4
           Marr: 10 Jun 1915 - Pleasantville, Oil Creek Twp, Venango Co, PA 7

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5 M Raymond Richard Bailey ⁴

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6 M Roy Ellsworth Bailey ⁴

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7 F Myrtle Bailey ⁴

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8 F Florence Bailey ⁴

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9 M Willis Bailey ⁴

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General Notes: Husband - William Martin Bailey

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He remained at home up to the time of his marriage, enjoying the average advantages allowed to boys of his day. By that time he had succeeded in saving about three hundred dollars, with which he set up housekeeping and started farming on a twenty-five-acre tract east of Clintonville, going into debt for the purchase of the property. In the ten years that he lived and worked on that place he made it pay for itself. Then for five years he was on another farm near by, until he found that he could secure much more land for the value of his small holdings in another section of the county, which induced him to sell out and remove to his present location. He bought the property where he now lives, the old Joseph McCaslin farm in Allegheny Township three miles east of Pleasantville, at a forced sale in 1899, acquiring two hundred acres of what has proved to be productive land, though it was run down when it came into his possession. It had been rented for years and without systematic attempts at improvement, so that Mr. Bailey had plenty of opportunity to put his practical ideas into execution. At first it scarcely yielded him a living, but under his persistent and well directed efforts the soil has been brought to a profitable state of fertility, and being advantageously situated it is now one of the most desirable farms in the township. Though he prefers to depend upon agriculture to a large extent, Mr. Bailey has not been idle in investigating and exploiting the oil possibilities of his land. The first well sunk giving a fair yield, he was encouraged to put down others from time to time, the production paying for further operations until, in the nineteen years of his residence on this land, he has brought in eighteen wells without striking a single dry hole and added considerably to his revenue from the property.
While pursuing his own interests in a diligent and thrifty manner. Mr. Bailey has also cooperated heartily with his fellow citizens in advancing the general welfare. As an official he has been especially well known for his services on the school board, of which he has been a member for fourteen years continuously, throughout that period using his influence to keep the township educational facilities up to the best possible modern standards attainable. Finding the township in debt in this respect, he also exerted his efforts toward freeing it from this burden, but without any unwise economy, advocating systematic management and expenditures which have placed the financial affairs upon a substantial basis even while new buildings were being erected and other improvements made. He has done jury duty several times. Mr. Bailey believes in the principles of the Prohibition Party, but votes independently when he considers it necessary to secure the best results. He has been a prominent member of the M. E. Church at Pleasantville, holding the offices of steward and trustee. [CAB, 933]

1 Charles A. Babcock, Venango County, Pennsylvania, Her Pioneers and People (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1919), Pg 933.

2 Nancy Byers Romig, Descendants of Rev. Johan Theodor Hofius (Export, PA: Self-published, July, 1997), Pg 22.

3 —, History of Butler County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Waterman, Watkins & Co., 1883), Pg 433.

4 Charles A. Babcock, Venango County, Pennsylvania, Her Pioneers and People (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1919), Pg 934.

5 —, History of Venango County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Brown, Runk, & Co., Publishers, 1890), Pg 1039.

6 Nancy Byers Romig, Descendants of Rev. Johan Theodor Hofius (Export, PA: Self-published, July, 1997), Pg 21.

7 Venango Co, PA, Marriage License, #11474.