Background
Bailey, Gilbert Ellis was born on April 27, 1852 in Pekin, Illinois, United States. Son of Review Gilbert Stephen (Doctor of Divinity) and Sarah Eloise (Bunnell) B.
Bailey, Gilbert Ellis was born on April 27, 1852 in Pekin, Illinois, United States. Son of Review Gilbert Stephen (Doctor of Divinity) and Sarah Eloise (Bunnell) B.
Student of University of Chicago, 1868-1872, University of Michigan, 1872-1873. Doctor of Philosophy, Franklin (Indiana) College, 1881.
Professor chemistry, University of Nebraska, 1874-1879. Geologist Wyoming Ty., 1883-1887. Professor metallurgy, State School of Mines, South Dakot, 1888-1889.
Assistant, California Mining Bureau, 1900, 01.
Death Valley explorations, 1901, 02, 03. Professor geology. University of Southern California, since 1909.
Mason.
Married Martha Cobb, 1876 (died 1879). Married second, Reba Boston, 1902.