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WILLIAM BAILEY, M. D., was born in Franklin County, Ky., November 4. 1833, and is a son of Shelah and Mary (Church) Bailey, natives of Virginia and Franklin County, Ky., respectively. He was brought up in Franklin County, and educated principally in the Kentucky Military Institute, where he spent six years, graduating in 1853. After graduating he taught in the institute as assistant in mathematics until 1856, when he commenced the study of medicine. He attended the first course of lectures in the Medical University of Louisville; afterwards graduated from the Kentucky School of Medicine in 1857, and immediately began practice at Shelbyville, Ky. In 1862 he was appointed surgeon of the Ninth (Federal) Kentucky Cavalry, remaining in the service one year, when he was mustered out. He then came to Louisville, and in 1864 graduated from the Medical University, in which he had taken his first course of lectures. He was a professor during 1866-'67 in the Kentucky School of Medicine, where he engaged in the organization of the Hospital College of Medicine, in which he was assigned the same chair he had held in the Kentucky School; was also president of the faculty for two years, when changed to the Medical University, where he has been made professor of Materia Medica, Therapeutics and Hygiene; he also enjoys a large private practice. He was married in 1859 to Miss Sue Owen, of Shelby County, and a member of an old and prominent Kentucky family. They have four children. He is a member of the American Medical Society, and also of State and local medical societies, as well as of the American Public Health Association.