Joshua F. Bailey
Joshua F. Bailey (1831-1907) was born in Hopkinton, New Hampshire, and
died in New York, New York. He worked as a schoolteacher in Boston, Massachusetts, in
the late 1850s, and he became a Special Agent of the United States Treasury Department
in 1861. In 1865, he became an Internal Revenue Service collector for the Fourth
Collection District of New York, and in 1869, he was appointed collector for the 32nd
District of New York. During this time, questionable accounting practices during his
earlier service, involving a $100,000 deficit in Bailey's accounts for which he and his
sureties were liable, were uncovered. Bailey fled the country and lived in South America
from 1870 to 1874, where he married Lucie Bailey (b. Coutin). Working for Thomas
Edison's Telephone and Light Company, Bailey lived in Paris, France, until 1886. He
received a pardon from President Grant and returned to the United States, and in the
winter of 1887 he was introduced to Christian Science by Augusta E. Stetson, a student
of Mary Baker Eddy's. He spent 12 hours a day reading Science and
Health with Key to the Scriptures, which he credited with the healing of an
unspecified condition that doctors in Paris had pronounced a "sentence of death." Bailey
was a student of Mary Baker Eddy's, completing the Primary class twice in November 1888
and February 1889 with his son, Frank F. Bailey, and the Normal class in May 1889.
Bailey took notes of Eddy's final Primary and Normal classes at her request. Eddy
appointed Bailey editor of The Christian Science Journal in
February 1889. It was Bailey's idea to start the semi-monthly periodical Christian Science Series in May 1889, however Eddy stopped its
publication in April 1891, after already replacing him as editor in November 1890. He
joined The First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston, Massachusetts, on October 5,
1892. Bailey became a member of the General Association of Teachers in October 1904, and
he was also a member of the Christian Science Dispensary Association. He was a member of
the Christian Scientist Association, as well as the National Christian Scientist
Association. Bailey was listed in the directory of The Christian
Science Journal as a Christian Science practitioner and teacher in Boston
(beginning in 1889) and in New York (beginning in 1893) until his passing. He was the
author of Christian Science, a Revelation (1889).
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Joshua F. Bailey
Joshua F. Bailey (1831-1907) was born in Hopkinton, New Hampshire, and
died in New York, New York. He worked as a schoolteacher in Boston, Massachusetts, in
the late 1850s, and he became a Special Agent of the United States Treasury Department
in 1861. In 1865, he became an Internal Revenue Service collector for the Fourth
Collection District of New York, and in 1869, he was appointed collector for the 32nd
District of New York. During this time, questionable accounting practices during his
earlier service, involving a $100,000 deficit in Bailey's accounts for which he and his
sureties were liable, were uncovered. Bailey fled the country and lived in South America
from 1870 to 1874, where he married Lucie Bailey (b. Coutin). Working for Thomas
Edison's Telephone and Light Company, Bailey lived in Paris, France, until 1886. He
received a pardon from President Grant and returned to the United States, and in the
winter of 1887 he was introduced to Christian Science by Augusta E. Stetson, a student
of Mary Baker Eddy's. He spent 12 hours a day reading Science and
Health with Key to the Scriptures, which he credited with the healing of an
unspecified condition that doctors in Paris had pronounced a "sentence of death." Bailey
was a student of Mary Baker Eddy's, completing the Primary class twice in November 1888
and February 1889 with his son, Frank F. Bailey, and the Normal class in May 1889.
Bailey took notes of Eddy's final Primary and Normal classes at her request. Eddy
appointed Bailey editor of The Christian Science Journal in
February 1889. It was Bailey's idea to start the semi-monthly periodical Christian Science Series in May 1889, however Eddy stopped its
publication in April 1891, after already replacing him as editor in November 1890. He
joined The First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston, Massachusetts, on October 5,
1892. Bailey became a member of the General Association of Teachers in October 1904, and
he was also a member of the Christian Science Dispensary Association. He was a member of
the Christian Scientist Association, as well as the National Christian Scientist
Association. Bailey was listed in the directory of The Christian
Science Journal as a Christian Science practitioner and teacher in Boston
(beginning in 1889) and in New York (beginning in 1893) until his passing. He was the
author of Christian Science, a Revelation (1889).
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