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Source: The Historical Encyclopedia of Illinois and History of Fulton County
Munsell Publishing Co., Chicago, 1908

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The Biography of Dr. Evan B. BAILY 

[Surnames: BAILY, BATTENBERG, BRANSON] 

BAILY, EVAN B. 

    
Dr. Evan B, Baily is the owner of a 240 area tract on Sect. 13, Bernadotte Twp. He comes from farming stock and his first years were spent among agricultural surroundings in Eldorado Twp., McDonough Co., where he was born March 9, 1865. On the paternal side he is of German ancestry, a son of Thomas, and grandson of Evan Baily, the latter of whom came from Ohio to Vermont Twp, Fulton County at a very early day, where his son Thomas was born, reared, and finally married Nancy Battenberg. After his marriage Thomas Baily moved to McDonough, Co., where his wife died in 1892, and when he moved to Table Grove, Fulton County, his present home. 
    
The educational advantages of Dr. Baily consisted of district schools and the highschool at Macomb. After graduating he returned to the home farm. In 1889 he entered the office of R. W. Baily, a dental practitioner of Macomb, and the following year took a course at the Chicago College of Dental Surgery, graduating in the class of 1890. 
    
In the meantime, the elder Dr. Baily had opened an office in Omaha, Nebraska, and Dr. Evan B. Baily practiced with him during his vacation, and in the fall located in Vermont, IL, where he practiced dentistry for five years. He next located in Wayne Co., IL, and in 1903, selling out his business, he moved with his family to Chicago. 
    
Two years later he came to his present farm and is now engaging in stock-raising, having on hand a large number of cattle, horses, hogs and sheep. 
    
Sept. 17, 1891 he married Lizzie Branson who was born in Ipava, Fulton County, Nov. 22, 1868, a daughter of William T. Branson, one of the honored pioneers of Fulton County. 
    
Dr. and Mrs. Baily have two children: Annie Maurine was born in Vermont Twp., July 15, 1892, and Evan B. in Fairfield, Wayne County, Sept 21, 1900. 
    
Dr. Baily is a Republican in politics and fraternally is connected with the Modern Woodmen of America, and the Royal Neighbors. With his wife he is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church of Ipava.