When Cleveland Alvey Bailey was born on 12 November 1884, in Bristow, Clark Township, Perry, Indiana, United States, his father, Mendalis Bailey, was 48 and his mother, Cornelia Ann Aders, was 41. He married Bertha Miles on 30 December 1905, in Perry, Indiana, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons. He lived in Clark Township, Perry, Indiana, United States for about 20 years and Burlington, Carroll, Indiana, United States in 1930. He died on 5 January 1936, in Clinton, Indiana, United States, at the age of 51, and was buried in Delphi, Deer Creek Township, Carroll, Indiana, United States.
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Statue of Liberty is dedicated.
The largest union group in the United States during the first half of the 20th century. It still exists today but merged with The Congress of Industrial Organization.
After the explosion of the USS Maine in the Havana Harbor in Cuba, the United States engaged the Spanish in war. The war was fought on two fronts, one in Cuba, which helped gain their independence, and in the Philippines, which helped the US gain another territory for a time.
English: status name for a steward or official, from Middle English bailli ‘manager, administrator’ (Old French baillis, from Late Latin baiulivus, an adjectival derivative of baiulus ‘attendant, carrier, porter’).
English: habitational name from Bailey in Little Mitton, Lancashire, named with Old English beg ‘berry’ + lēah ‘woodland clearing’.
English: occasionally a topographic name for someone who lived by the outer wall of a castle, from Middle English (Old French) bailli ‘outer courtyard of a castle’ (Old French bail(le) ‘enclosure’, a derivative of bailer ‘to enclose’). This term became a placename in its own right, denoting a district beside a fortification or wall, as in the case of the Old Bailey in London, which formed part of the early medieval outer wall of the city.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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