When he was about thirty he began operating a hotel. The first Bailey House was started in 1829 when Minter Bailey, Jr., and his wife took up residence in Weston and assumed charge of a hotel run by a Thomas Bland.[11]
Bailey House
This building fronted Main Street for 40 feet and had a wing that ran back along Second Street for forty feet. It was 2 stories high and of log and frame construction. Mr Bailey and his wife were very popular hosts, and their liberality was proverbial: No minister was ever charged for any service and no poor and needy person was ever turned away. He was a born and urbane host.[12] At one point he hired young Thomas (later “Stonewall” Jackson to work in the hotel.[13][14]
1840 census
Minter J Bailey appears in the 1840 United States Federal Census as a person engaged in agriculture, living in a household of four persons, himself, his wife, and two daughters under five.
Name: Minter J Bailey; Home in 1840, Lewis County, Virginia.
Free White Persons - Males - 20 thru 29: 1
Free White Persons - Females - Under 5: 2; 20-29: 1.
Persons Employed in Agriculture: 1.
Free White Persons - Under 20: 2
Free White Persons - 20 thru 49: 2
Total Free White Persons: 4
Total All Persons - Free White, Free Colored, Slaves: 4.[15]
1850 census
Minter Bailey appears in the 1850 United States Federal Census as a 50-year-old landlord with $8000 in real property, living with his wife, Sarah, and four children, two sons and two daughters, and 5 female roomers, ages 18-72, and 18 male roomers, ages 20-60.
For a larger view of the 1850 census image below, click here.
1850 census for Minter Bailey, Jr
Name: Minter Bailey; Age: 50; Birth Year: c1800; Birthplace: Virginia; Home in 1850: District 30, Lewis County, Virginia; Gender: Male; Family Number: 1397.
By 1850 he was also the owner of six slaves, four males and two females.[17]
In 1856 he was a founder and president of board of trustees of the Western Virginia Hospital for the Insane (Sometimes known as the Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum), in Weston.[18]
Minter Bailey, Jr. was one of the founders of Weston State Hospital
In 1860 he reported $37.492 in real and $16,300 in personal property.[19]
Camden, associate of Minter Bailey's
This may be the Camden who was a close friend and business associate of MB's (they--or another Camden and MB-- engaged in some land deal that was deemed somewhat scandalous by some people):[20]
'"JUDGE GIDEON D. CAMDON--DECEASED."'
The judges of the various courts established in Harrison County, West Virginia, have always been noted for their character and ability, and one of the most popular of the many worthy men elevated to the bench in this county, was Judge Gideon D. Camdon. Mr. Camdon comes of English stock and is a descendant of one of the first families of Virginia. He was born in August, 1804, and died, after a long and useful life, April 22, 1891. He was the son of Henry and Mary (Sprigg) Camdon, natives of Virginia. The father was a Methodist Episcopal minister of Virginia, and his circuit extended over a wide stretch of country. Judge Camdon's early life was passed in Lewis County, West Virginia, where he married and reared the following children: Eliza; Martha M., now Mrs. Summers; Gideon D.; John A., and Dora, now Mrs. Ramsburg. The two now living are Mrs. Ramsburg and Mrs. Summers. The Judge came to Clarksburg in 1834, studied law and at an early date became associated with Judge Allen. He became one of the most prominent men of the county and held many of the most important offices of the same. In 1850, he was elected to the State Legislature of Virginia, afterward Judge of the Circuit Court, and came within one vote of being elected United States Senator. At one time he was a Whig in politics, but subsequently became identified with the Democratic party, with which he remained until his death. He became a large land owner and a wealthy citizen.
Death and burial
On 30 July 1866, Minter died of unknown causes at the age of sixty-seven, in Weston, Lewis County, West Virginia,[21] and is buried in Machpelah Cemetery in Weston.
From Findagrave.com
Minter Bailey
Birth: 16 Mar 1798 Fauquier County, Virginia, USA; Death: 30 Jul 1866 (aged 68) Weston, Lewis County, West Virginia, USA; Burial: Machpelah Cemetery, Weston, Lewis County, West Virginia, USA. Memorial #: 100016194.
Family Members: Parents: Minter Bailey (1763-1833); Spouse: Sarah Bastable Bailey (1804-1888); Siblings: William Bailey (1796-1849), John Bailey (1809-1849); Children: Alvin M. Bailey (1832-1837), Douglas Moxley Bailey (1834-1903), Granville Irving Bailey (1836-1870), Lucy Stein Bailey Tunstill (1838-1917), Permelia Matilda Bailey Ralston (1840-1916).[22]
Citations
↑ Jackson, P.A. notes; trans Jane Kimble, Jackson Ledger (1887; Copy of P.A. Jackson's Notes,;
www.jacksonfamilygenealogy.com (2005)), 72.
↑ McWhorter, Minnie, Compiler, McWhorter Genealogies (West Virginia & Regional History Collection
Morgantown, WV. 9/R99D), Norris -- V. Minter Bailey, Jr. Repository: WVU Library WV and Regional History Collection, PO Box 6069, Morgantown, WV 26506, Archives & Manuscripts No.: 928.
↑ Jackson, P.A. notes; trans Jane Kimble, Jackson Ledger (1887; Copy of P.A. Jackson's Notes,; www.jacksonfamilygenealogy.com (2005)), 72-73. .... McWhorter, Minnie, Compiler, McWhorter
Genealogies (West Virginia & Regional History Collection. Morgantown, WV
↑ McWhorter, Minnie, Compiler, McWhorter Genealogies (West Virginia & Regional History Collection
Morgantown, WV. 9/R99D), Norris -- V. Minter Bailey, Jr. Repository: WVU Library WV and Regional History Collection, PO Box 6069, Morgantown, WV 26506, Archives & Manuscripts No.: 928.
↑ McWhorter, Minnie, Compiler, McWhorter Genealogies (West Virginia & Regional History Collection
Morgantown, WV. 9/R99D), Norris -- V. Minter Bailey, Jr. Repository: WVU Library WV and Regional History Collection, PO Box 6069, Morgantown, WV 26506, Archives & Manuscripts No.: 928.
↑ McWhorter, Minnie, Compiler, McWhorter Genealogies (West Virginia & Regional History Collection
Morgantown, WV. 9/R99D), Norris -- V. Minter Bailey, Jr. Repository: WVU Library WV and Regional History Collection, PO Box 6069, Morgantown, WV 26506, Archives & Manuscripts No.: 928.
↑ McWhorter, Minnie, Compiler, McWhorter Genealogies (West Virginia & Regional History Collection
Morgantown, WV. 9/R99D), Norris -- V. Minter Bailey, Jr. Repository: WVU Library WV and Regional History Collection, PO Box 6069, Morgantown, WV 26506, Archives & Manuscripts No.: 928.
↑ Souvenir of Weston has a picture of the second Bailey House; Lewis County History Souvenir Book, 1817-1967, has an article and a picture of the first Bailey House, pp 22-23; Cook, History the of Old Bailey House, p3 has a picture of Minter Bailey, Jr.
↑ US Bureau of the Census, 1850 Census Slave Schedules AncHerQu, Source Information
Ancestry.com. 1850 U.S. Federal Census - Slave Schedules [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2004, image 4 of 5.Virginia, Lewis County, Dist 30, no page #s, col 1 n 2. Repository: ancestryheritagequest, URL: http://search.ancestryheritagequest.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?_phsrc=CLY47&_phstart=successSource&usePUBJs=true&indiv=1&db=
1850slaveschedules&gss=angs-d&new=1&rank=1&gsfn=absalom&gsfn_x=0&gsln=beatie&gsln_x=NP&msrpn__ftp=Washington%
20County,%20Virginia,%20USA&m.
Kimble, Janie Jackson, transcr. Jackson Ledger Jackson, P.A. notes; trans Jane Kimble Publication: 1887; Copy of P.A. Jackson's Notes,; www.jacksonfamilygenealogy.com (2005) Note: website changed to WeRelate on 7 Dec 2018 pph Call Number: https://www.werelate.org/wiki/Transcript:Jackson%2C_P_A._Jackson_Ledger
McWhorter, Minnie, Compiler, McWhorter Genealogies (West Virginia & Regional History Collection, Morgantown, WV 9/R99D). Repository: WVU Library WV and Regional History Collection, PO Box 6069, Morgantown, WV 26506, USA.
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