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HON. EZRA BREWSTER BAILEY
WINDSOR LOCKS: Secretary and Treasurer and Manager of the E. Horton & Son Company
Collector of Customs for the Port of Hartford
Hon. E. B. Bailey is a native of the town of Franklin, in New London county, where he was born March 29, 1841. He is of the sturdiest New England stock, his early ancestry through both branches representing prominent families of both the revolutionary and puritanic periods in our country’s history, who, with their descendants, have been distinguished for physical vigor and intellectual attainments, as well as for inflexible integrity and patriotism. He is a son of Aaron and Eliza (Brewster) Bailey of Franklin, and through the maternal line is ninth in direct descent from Elder William Brewster of the Mayflower through the eldest son, Jonathan Brewster, who joined the Connecticut colonists in his early manhood and settled below Norwich. Mr. Bailey’s paternal ancestors were the Baileys of Groton, whose lineage through the Puritans establishes theirs as among the most ancient of English families. It may be mentioned here, although out of chronological order, that Miss Katie E. Horton, who became the wife of Mr. E. B. Bailey in 1871, is a descendant in the eighth generation from John Alden and Priscilla (Mullens) Alden, prominent characters in Puritanic history; thus in the present generation mingling several strains of ancient English blood which have separately quickened the best subjects of American history. The Hortons of Windsor Locks represent one of the oldest and best of New England families which, since colonial times, has contributed numerous and distinguished names to the country’s service and history.
Mr. Bailey’s early life in Franklin was spent on the ancestral farm (of which the subject of this sketch is now the proprietor), where he was nurtured in habits of industry, and acquired at the district school the elementary education which is the basis of all literary accomplishments. His daily toil in the hayfield or cornfield, in the woods and meadows, or at the old mill where his father made the shingles which supplied the covering for the roofs of all the houses in the neighborhood, gave the boy a rich experience of the hardships and the pleasures of farm life, and sharpened his appetite for the healthy farmer’s fare on which he throve and grew to the stature of vigorous manhood. Here he laid the foundation of his future success, while he imbibed inspiration from be precept and example of his God-fearing parents aqnd deported himself in a way to secure the respect and esteem of his associates and neighbors.
Source: Illustrated Popular Biography of Connecticut - 1891, Compiled and Published by J. A. Spalding, Hartford Conn., Press of the Case, Lockwood and Brainard Company, 1891
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