[Bailey, Charles H.]

     Bailey, Charles H., Buffalo, was born in the town of Vienna, Oneida county, N. Y., September 20, 1866, and was educated at the academy in Rome, N. Y. His first business experience was in the office of Thornton, Briggs & Close, who were the official stenographers of various courts and doing a general shorthand business, the firm afterward becoming Thornton, Briggs & Bailey. This firm continued until 1891, when Mr. Bailey retired. In 1893 he was graduated from the Buffalo Law School and admitted to the bar in June of the same year. In September, 1894, he was appointed one of the official stenographers of the Supreme Court, which position he [110][111] still holds. He was married October 18, 1892, to Mamre E. Dodge, daughter of Leonard Dodge, and they have two children, Leonard Hotchkiss Bailey and Mamre Bailey.