Frank Bailey, American banker. Member Columbia County Association, S.R., Society of the Cincinnati, Phi Beta Kappa.
Background
Bailey was born in Chatham, New New York His father, Doctor William Cady Bailey, was a medical doctor and amateur naturalist (who had studied botany under Amos Eaton). His mother was a school-teacher and homemaker, 20 years younger than his father, a relative of Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and a graduate of Mountain.
Holyoke College.
Education
Bachelor of Arts, Union College, Schenectady, 1885, Doctor of Laws, 1905.
Career
They maintained a city residence in Brooklyn, and a country residences in Locust Valley (near Lattingtown on Long Island), which they purchased in 1911 and jokingly named "Munnysunk". The estate became the 42-acre Bailey Arboretum. After going to a local school, then Spencertown Academy, Frank Bailey attended and graduated from Union College in Schenectady in 1885 on a scholarship after Williams College turned him down for lack of finances).
He served as the Union College treasurer for 51 years, and the college"s Frank Bailey Field is named after him.
His career began as a clerk at the Title Guarantee and Trust Company. By 1891 he became vice president of its Brooklyn office, and later became company president until 1924.
Bailey was active in public service. In 1929, the Baileys gave $125,000 ($16 million in 2011 dollars) for the construction of a fountain in Brooklyn"s Park Slope Grand Army Plaza, selected on a design competition.
His autobiography, lieutenant Can’t Happen Here Again: The Life Story of a Self-Made Manitoba, was published in 1945 by Alfred A. Knopf (ASIN B0007E41VS).
Bailey Arboretum
Grand Army Plaza, The Bailey Fountain
Union College
Muny Sunk Stables, Incorporated.
Achievements
Membership
Member Columbia County Association, South.R., Society of the Cincinnati, Phi Beta Kappa. Clubs: Uptown (New York City).