Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-10-25
MRS. HANNAH J. BAILEY
noted Maine REFORMER
DIES At PORTLAND

Especial to the Kenncbec JournaD
Winthrop Center, Me, Oct. 81
Mrs. Hannah ]. Bailey died at $3.50
Tuesday evening at 80 Cushman
street, Portland, Me, at the age of
81 years. , months and IS days.
With the death OF Mrs. Bailey,
Winthrop loses one of her most dis
tinguished citizens. and one who was
universally loved and honored.
The remains will be brought to
Winthrop for burial, and funeral
services will lie held at 30 Friday
afternoon from the Friends church
at Winthrop Center. of which she
was for SO many years faithful
member
Mrs. Hannah J. Bailey was born
at Cornwall on the Hudson, the
first of eight children of David
Johnston, Il minister of the Friends
church, and his wife. Letitia Clark
Johnston. On the maternal side, her
ancestry has been traced back to
Samuel Clark, who came from Eng
land in 1880. in the year that Gov
ernor Winthrop and over n thousand
others came to America.
Being a birthright member of the
Friends church, which from its be-
ginning has been strong in its prin-
CipleS regarding peace and arbitra-
ton, Mrs. Bailey was we'll adapted to
interest others in the subject, and
it was from her work along this line
perhaps, that she was best known in
her own and foreign lands.
She received her education at a
Friends boarding school, and for
nine years was employed as a school
teacher
In 1869 she married Moses Bailey
and came to Winthrop to make her
home. Her husband died in 1852,
after helping his brother Charles NJ.
to found the FAMOUS Bailey Oilcloth
factories. There is one son, Moses
NJ. Bailey, who lives in Portland.
Mrs. Bailey lived life crowded
with interest. her activities having
brought her into touch with every
land and people. her voice having
been heard in great conventions for
humanity, for temperance, for peace
and arbitration.
She lived long enough to see many
of her ideals realized, temperance
for which she worked so tirelessly.
enforced by national law, equal stuff
rage, scorned and scoffed at for so
many years. written into the ra-
tional constitution. and it was a
proud day for Mrs. Bailey when she
cast her first vote.
1t is the regret of her friends.
that years enough might not have
been given her to see her third
great ideal. and perhaps the one for
which she labored hardest. world
wide disarmament. court of inter-
national justice ard a world police
force, reach its fulfillment.
In the height of her active public
life. Mrs. Bailey held as many as
% different Offices at one time:
among her activities. she was pres
ident for six years of the Maine Wo-
mans Equal Suffrage Association
from 1891 to 1897. She was one of
the judges in the department of lib
eral arts at the Worlds Fair in Chi
cago in 1898. and at Washington in
1895. she was elected treasurer for
three years of the National Council
of Women. Twice she was appoint
cd by different Maine governors to
represent her state on the National
Board of Charities and Corrections.
With all these great responsible
ties, and many more, Mrs. Bailey al
ways found time for the work of the
Friends church, which she so sin
cerely loved.
Her life was enriched with the
friendship of many of the worlds
greatest men and women. and dur
ing her later years, when the infirm-
tiles of age forced her retirement
from public life, the mails kept her
in almost daily touch with friends
Iof every land and cline. so that
her friendships might truly be said
to girdle the globe. She has been a
co-worker with such distinguished
personages as Susan B. Anthony,
Julia Ward Howe. Wendall Philips,
Neal Dow, and Mrs. L. NJ. n. Ste
Vens.
She was a tireless traveller, had
visited the great capitols of Europe.
gazed upon the colorful pageant of
life in the Orient, stood before the
great pyramids of Egypt. and sought
to read the secret in the inscrutable
eyes of the SphynX.
When advancing years and feeble
ness of body withdrew her from ac-
tive life. she had only to draw from
the rich gems of memory's store
house for entertainment. and thus
happily she passed the twilight years
of life, surrounded by loving friends,
revered by her townspeople. and
looking forward with great longing
to her last great journey-and
Home.
The keynote of her life was SER
vice; and of her it might be truly
said: We'll done. thou good and
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