Background
He was born at North Yarmouth, Maine, the son of Lebbeus and Sarah (Myrick) Bailey.
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English Grammmar: A Simple, Concise, and Comprehensive Manual of the English Language. Designed for the Use of Schools, Academies, and As a Book for General Reference in the Language. in Four Parts
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Daughters at school instructed in a series of letters. By the Rev. Rufus W. Bailey.
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Rufus William Bailey
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After graduating from Dartmouth College in 1813, he taught for a short time in academies at Salisbury and Blue Hill, and then studied law in the office of Daniel Webster. After a year of this study, however, he decided to go into the ministry, and went to Andover Theological Seminary to prepare himself. He spent one year at Andover and then finished his preparation with Francis Brown, president of Dartmouth College.
Career
During the year 1817-18 he was employed as a tutor at Dartmouth, after which he was ordained pastor of the Congregational Church at Norwich, Vt. Later he held a pastoral charge at Pittsfield, Massachussets, but gave it up in 1827 for reasons of health, moving to the South where he engaged in a long and active career of teaching and preaching in South Carolina, North Carolina, and Virginia. In 1854, he became professor of languages at Austin College, Texas. He was made president of that institution in 1858 and held this office up to the time of his death.
Bailey was a prolific writer. To the Patriarch, of which he became editor in 1841, he made numerous contributions. A number of his letters written to newspapers on the subject of slavery were later collected and published in a volume called The Issue (1837). Many of his sermons were published, a number of them in a little book, entitled The Family Preacher (1837).
Over half a million copies of his Scholar's Companion (1830) had been sold before the time of his death; and it continued to sell long afterward. In his writings the moral-religious purpose was almost always, if not always present. In the introduction to the 1863 edition of his Scholar's Companion, he says of his book: "Beyond mere orthography and correct pronunciation, it is designed to introduce the young mind into the inner life of words, and thus into the inner life of the soul. It is a spelling-book, but that is not all. It teaches correct pronunciation, but that is not all. It is a defining Dictionary, - but still more, it discriminates the nicest shades of difference in words, in thought, and contributes eminently to form the mind to truth, and the character to uprightness, and the soul for its immortal destiny. " This sublime confidence in the power of precept seems to have animated Bailey's other writings and very probably his whole career.
Achievements
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Rufus William Bailey was perhaps best known in his own day and later for his text-books on spelling and grammar which were widely used in the S. He is also is remembered as the founder of Augusta Female Seminary (later Mary Baldwin College), in Staunton, Virginia, and also president of Austin College, in Huntsville, Texas.
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English Grammmar: A Simple, Concise, and Comprehensive Manual of the English Language. Designed for the Use of Schools, Academies, and As a Book for General Reference in the Language. in Four Parts
(This book was originally published prior to 1923, and rep...)
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Scholar's Companion; Containing Exercises in the Orthography, Derivation, and Classification of English Works
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- Daughters at school instructed in a series of letters. By the Rev. Rufus W. Bailey.
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English Grammmar: A Simple, Concise, and Comprehensive Manual of the English Language. Designed for the Use of Schools, Academies, and As a Book for General Reference in the Language. in Four Parts
Connections
He was twice married: in 1820 to Lucy Hatch, the daughter of Reuben Hatch of Norwich, and after her death to Mrs. Mariette (Perry) Lloyd, of Waterbury.
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