Baileyville Kansas.

Nemaha County.

Marion Township Map, 1887.

http://www.kansasmemory.org/item/223979/page/76

 

On the county map Baileyville can be found in Township 2-3-south and Range 11-east.  On the Township map Baileyville can be found in section 28.

 

Baileyvill Post Office.

 

Baileyville post office open February 25, 1880 and ran to?, First Postmaster was G. M. Rasp.

Note.  To learn of other Postmasters see Baileyville, 1883.

 

Baileyville, 1883.

 

In 1880, N. Bailey, a substantial farmer in Clear Creek Township, laid out a town on the Union Pacific Railroad (Kansas Division) seven miles west of Seneca. A post-office was established with G. M. Rasp as postmaster, and a large hay press and sheds erected by S. H. Rice & Co., of St. Joseph, which firm also established a store for the benefit of their employees and others. In the spring of 1882, S. H. Rice & Co. sold their hay-pressing machinery to Bailey Brothers, together with two sections of hay lands, which they owned. The store was transferred to Bay & McQuinch, who still run it. Prior to this time a siding had been put in and a station built by the railroad company. The post-office passed from G. M. Rasp to Bert E. Rice, and finally to James Tennant, the present incumbent 1883, and B. W. Anderson,1887.

 

Business men who used Baileyville as their P. O. address as of 1887.

 

B. W. Anderson, Postmaster and Grain and Coal Dealer, from Tennessee, came to county 1884.

N. J. Bailey, Farmer and Siock Raiser, from Illinois, came to county 1884.

O. Bailey, Farmer and Stock Raiser, from Illinois, came to county 1881.

E. M. Bailey, Farmer and Stock Raiser, from Illinois, came to county 1879.

W. A. Crow, General Merchandise, from Missouri, came to county 1883.

S. Catherman, Farmer and Stock Raiser, from Pennsylvania, came to county 1882.

Mathew Donelley, Farmer and Stock Raiser, from Ireland, came to county 1879.

W. N. Franke, Livery and Feed Barn, from Illinois, came to county 1858.

H. Flintie, Farmer and Stock Raiser, from Germany, came to county 1870.

Jacob P. Good, Farmer and Stock Raiser, from Illinois, came to county 1881.

B. Harrison, Farmer and Stock Raiser, from Virginia, came to county 1883.

James E. Ivers, Farmer and Stock Raiser, from Canada, came to county 1879.

George S. Melinday or McLinday, General Merchandise, from Vermont, came to county 1884.

William M. Mains, Farmer and Stock Raiser, from Iowa, came to county 1884.

B. F. McBratney, Farmer and Stock Raiser, from Illinois, came to county 1859.

J. Rumft, Farmer and Stock Raiser, from Germany, came to county 1883.

W. H. Stall, Farmer and Stock Raiser, from Ohio, came to county 1881.

M. Sigler, Blacksmith and Farmer, from New Jersey, came to county 1881.

J. J. Thomas, Stock Dealer, from Ohio, came to county 1883.

W. A. Walker & Co., Lumber and Hardware, from Illinois, came to county  1883.

J. M. Witmer, Farmer and Stock Dealer, from ?, came to county 1883.

L. Wilhelm, Blacksmith and Wagon Maker, from Indiana, came to county 1886.

S. K. Warrenburg, Farmer and Stock Raiser and Dealer, from Ohio, came to county 1883.

W. T. Weir, Farmer and Stock Raiser, from New Jersey, came to county 1883.

M. M. Wachter, Druggist and Physician, from Maryland, came to county 1885.

J. H. Young, General Merchandise, from Indiana, came to county 1883.

 

Baileyville Kansas, 1912.

Baileyville, a village of Nemaha county, is located on the St. Joseph & Grand Island and the Missouri Pacific railroads, 6 miles west of Seneca, the county seat. It has banking facilities, express and telegraph offices and a money order postoffice with two rural routes. The population in 1910 was 250. The town was founded by N. Bailey in 1880. A postoffice with G. M. Rasp as postmaster was established. A large hay press and sheds were erected by S. H. Rice & Co. of St. Joseph, who also started a store for the benefit of their employees and others who settled in the neighborhood.

Baileyville Kansas, 1916.

Baileyville, the westernmost town of the county, was named in honor of ex-Governor Bailey's father, who laid out the town seven miles west of Seneca. It has prospered and become a convenient shipping point, if not a city of any considerable growth. G. M. Rasp was the first postmaster of the village and a St. Joseph firm estabHshed a store, hay sheds, etc. Later these were sold to the Bailey Brothers and to other interested local citizens. The St. Joseph & Grand Island put in a siding and Baileyville increased in numbers, citizenship and substantiality.