Santa Cruz County Biographies

DR. A. H. BAILEY

Submitted by Kathy Sedler

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        A physician and the son of a physician, Dr. A. H. Bailey is one of the 
prominent citizens of Santa Cruz, and a conspicuous figure in the Parlor of 
Native Sons of this city. He was born at Placer, April 19, 1855. When he was 
three years old, his father came to Santa Cruz. His preliminary education was 
obtained in the public schools of this city; he graduated from Golden Gate 
Academy in 1876, and entered the State University, and later studied medicine in 
his father's office. He attended the Cooper Medical Institute for two years and 
graduated from the Hospital College of Medicine of St. Louis in February, 1883.
        He then went to the Hawaiian Islands, where his father had preceded him, 
to Kahului, Isle of Maui. He was married on the islands, in 1883, to Miss Mollie 
Nelson, of New Hampshire, who died four years afterwards, leaving to his care a 
little girl baby, Haunani. He then returned to Santa Cruz, where his father was 
at that time living, and in ill health. His father died soon after, and Dr. A. 
H. once more visited the islands, and, after settling up his business there, 
came to Santa Cruz in 1889, and has since lived here with his mother. He has 
been actively engaged in his practice here since his return. He is the surgeon 
of the Santa Cruz Parlor of the N. S. G. W., and a very urbane, sociable, and 
popular gentleman.
 
HISTORY OF SANTA CRUZ COUNTY, CALIFORNIA.-  E. S. Harrison, 
Pacific Press Publ. Co., San Francisco, 1891