Personal Papers of Austin Bailey 1900-1970

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Personal Papers of Austin Bailey 1900-1970

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Austin Bailey was the son of E.H.S. Bailey, the University of Kansas’ first chemistry professor, and a 1915 graduate of the University of Kansas. He also served as an assistant professor of Physics at the University from 1921-1922 before continuing his career at the American Telephone and Telegraph Company, where he worked for over 35 years. Bailey’s personal papers collection includes material relating to his own career, as well as the legacy of E.H.S Bailey and Bailey family genealogy.

2 linear ft, (2 boxes), 1 oversize box, 1 oversize folder

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University of Kansas Kenneth Spencer Research Library University Archives

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Bailey, Austin, 1893-1973.

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Austin Bailey, son of KU Chemistry Department Chairman Edgar Henry Summerfield (E.H.S.) Bailey, was born in Lawrence, KS, on June 9, 1893. He graduated with a Bachelor of Arts from KU in 1915. He served as a Lieutenant in the Army Signal Corps during World War I, then went to work for Corning Glass Works before receiving his Ph.D. in Physics from Cornell University. He accepted an assistant professorship in the Physics Department at KU from 1921-1922, then he joined the Research and...

Bailey family

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American Telephone and Telegraph Company.

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Bailey, E. H. S. (Edgar Henry Summerfield), 1848-1933

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Edgar Henry Summerfield Bailey was born in Middlefield, Connecticut in 1848. He studied chemistry at Yale and earned his doctorate degree at Illinois Wesleyan. Bailey was appointed to the chair of chemistry, mineralogy and metallurgy at the University of Kansas in 1883, where he served variously as head of the Chemistry Department until 1918, in full- and part-time professorships until his death in 1933. In his first years at K.U., Bailey alone taught courses in general ...