The Colorado statesman. [volume] (Denver, Colo.) 1895-1961, 1909-04-17
DEATH CLAIMS
JUDGE BAILEY
SUPREME COURT DIES AT
FORT COLLINS.
PIONEER IN COLORADO
FOR MANY YEARS PRIMINENT IN
PUBLIC AFFAIRS IN NORTH
ERN COLORADO.

Denver-A Fort Collins dispatch
Thursday night says: Judge George
w. Bailey, former justice of the Su-
preme Court of Colorado, died in the
hospital here tonight at 7:10 from
diabetes.
At his bedside when the end came
were Mrs. Bailey, her sister, Mrs. w.
l.. Strickler of Denver and Mrs. l.. c.
Moore, friend of the widow. Eugene
Bailey, brother of the deceased jur-
list, residing at Denver, and a brother
in-law, Clarence Jarbeau, also of Den
yer, arrived this afternoon.
The Judge knew none of those
around him. He had been unconscious
for three days. He entered the hos
pital April 1st to undergo an operation
for a carbuncle on his neck. This
had healed when the serious kidney
disease developed.
Judge Bailey was one of the best
known lawyers and jurists of Colorado
and was famed for his knowledge of IT.
rigation matters. He was born in st.
Louis March s, 1856. When but a
child he accompanied his parents to
Illinois. There his father Joined the
Union army anu while the parent WAS
fighting for his country, young George
worked in the coal mines, his meager
wages being devoted to the support of
his mother. He remained in the mines
until he was sixteen, when the family
moved to this county and the father
filed on homestead.
A short time afterward young
George became a cowboy, following
that vocation in Dakota, where he
practiced rigid economy and assisted
his family to improve the homestead.
Returning to Colorado later he en-
gagged in various avocations, finally
entering the newspaper business in
Loveland, where he conducted the
Register
In 1882 he went to Grand Lake,
Colo, where he started the Grand Lake
Prospector, which paper he sold in 1884
and took up the study of law under
the late Supreme Court justice, G..
T. Caswell, with whom he later sat
as an associate on the Supreme bench.
Soon after being admitted to the bar
he returned to Fort Collins. where he
DeCdIlle CITY attorney anu lot live years
was deputy district attorney. For sew
eral years he served as counsel for the
commissioners of Larimer county and
also as an attorney for the Water Sup
ply & Storage Company. He was elect
ed Judge of the County Court, which Of
flee he held for some time, and in jan
uary, 1905, on the consolidation of the
I Court Of Appeals and the Supreme
Court, he was appointed justice of the
Supreme Court, taking the oath of CT
flee in April of that year.
While a resident of Grand Lake he
married April II, 1888. Miss Belle lar
beau of that city. He is survived by a
widow and three sons, I. L. Bailey of
Fort Collins, George ]. Bailey, a stu
dent in the law department of the
State University, and Clarence H. Bail
ey, who attends public school here.
Besides Eugene Bailey, he had two 9TH
er brothers, one living in Newton,
Colo, and the other in Red Bluff, Cal.
He was thirty-second degree Mason,
Royal Arch Mason, Shriner, member
Vf the Knights Templar, Knights of
Pythias, Odd Fellows, Elks. Woodmen,
Knights of Maccabees, Eastern Star
and the Fraternal Aid Association
The funeral will be conducted by the
Masons.