This week Asotin mourns the death of one of her best known and pioneer
citizens,
in the person of Attorney George W. Bailey,
who passed away at
one o'clock Wednesday afternoon, at his home,
after an illness dating
back only to last Saturday morning,
the cause of death resulting from
uraemic poisoning,
which attack came on very suddenly and in a very
pronounced degree.
Medical attendance was almost constant from the time of taking ill until
time of passing away,
endeavoring to overcome the attack, but such
services were unavailing.
His faithful wife, also ill, was with him at
the time of death,
but his son Harvey D. Bailey, a student at Whitman
college in Walla Walla,
did not reach home until about nine o'clock on
Wednesday night.
The funeral will be held from the family residence Friday afternoon at
two o'clock,
Rev. J.C. George, of the Presbyterian Church officiating,
and the burial services will be in charge of the I.O.O.F.,
the deceased
being a veteran member of Riverside Lodge, No.41. of Asotin.
George W. Bailey was a native of Vermont, having been born at Hardwick
on July 27, 1854,
and was of an old New England family whose lineage
could be accurately traced back to the sixteenth century.
He grew to
manhood in Vermont and graduated from the university of the state in
1880,
with the degree of bachelor of arts. For a while he was
instructor in the McIndies academy.
While thus engaged he also began
the study of law.
In 1882 Mr. Bailey came west to Washington territory,
locating at
WallaWalla, and shortly after, associated himself with the late John B.
Allen,
at that time United States Attorney, and continued the study of
law,
and in 1884 was regularly admitted to the bar.
During a portion of
this time he was also business manager of the Walla Walla Daily Union.
In the spring of 1885 he came to Asotin and entered upon the successful
practice of his profession,
which he followed in all the years since,
andup to the time of his death.
He possessed one of the largest and
best arranged law libraries in Eastern Washington,
and the fruits of his
work had placed him in comfortable circumstances,
so far as worldly
possessions are concerned. For many years Judge R.F.Sturdevant,
of
Olympia, has been associated with Mr. Bailey in the practice of law in
Asotin county,
and likewise for many years the deceased has been
the
resident attorney of the Lewiston-Clarkston Improvement Co.
In 1889 Mr. Bailey was united in marriage to Miss Anna Dillon,
and to
this union one son was born, Harvey D. Bailey, who, with his mother,
survive.
For fully half of his life Mr. Bailey had been a faithful member of the
I.O.O.F.
and of the Woodmen of the World for about twenty years.
He was
also a member of the order of the Elks of Lewiston.
Submitted by Carla Weza North