Bailey, Benjamin F., 1796-1832.

Benjamin Franklin Bailey was born in Guildhall, Vermont, in 1796. Bailey attended Peacham Academy and graduated from the University of Vermont in 1818. He tutored at the University for a year and then studied law at the Burlington office of Griswold and Follett (the Follett Papers are also part of the Stevens Collection). Admitted to practice in 1820, Bailey rose rapidly in his profession. In 1823 he formed a successful Burlington law partnership with George Perkins Marsh of Woodstock. Bailey served as State's Attorney for Chittenden County from 1823 to 1827, represted Burlington in the Vermont House from 1825 to 1829, and was a Commissioner of Common Schools from 1827 to 1830. He married Catharine F. Hyde (sister of Archibald Hyde, whose papers are in the Stevens Collection) in June of 1822, and they had two children, Marcia (who married Louis Follet, Esq., of Burlington) and George. Benjamine F. Bailey died in Burlington on May 23, 1832.