JACOB BAYLISS

BAYLISS

Posted By: Jake Tornholm (email)
Date: 4/23/2020 at 12:51:32

JACOB BAYLISS, son of John and Gertrude Bayliss, came with his parents from Germany to America when he was eleven years old. His father settled in New York State, where his death occurred in 1861. The mother died in 1878. Jacob was next to their oldest child. He lived in New York until 1869 when he came to Iowa and settled in Muscatine county. He subsequently lived one year in Clark county, and in 1881 came to Adams county. Here he has 280 acres of fine land, located in section 25, Colony township, which is well adapted to general farming and stock-raising. He has six or seven acres in orchard, an abundance of small fruit, fine grove, a large barn and two-story residence, and is most comfortably situated. Among his stock are shorthorn cattle, Percheron and Norman horses and Poland-China hogs.

March 1, 1866, Mr. Bayliss married Miss Jane Markham, and by her has nine children, viz.: Nellie, Henry, Charles, Morris, Flora, Emma, George, Walter and Edith.

While in New York Mr. Bayliss was a member of the New York State militia, and served six years in that body. In politics he is a Democrat. He has served the public as Township Trustee and a member of the School Board. He is one of the substantial men of Colony township. Frank and outspoken though genial in his manner, he receives the respect of the entire community
in which he lives.