Biography extracted from History of Sauk County, Wisconsin Chicago: Western Historical Company, published 1880.

Prairie du Sac:

J. H. Bailey, proprietor of harness-shop, Prairie du Sac; born in Belmont, La Fayette Co., Wis., Nov. 21, 1839; his father, B. F. Bailey, had settled in that county in 1833, and married there Elizabeth Johnson, daughter of William Johnson, a pioneer settler of Wisconsin, and now a resident of Sumter, this county. During the war of the rebellion, J. H. Bailey, the subject of this sketch, enlisted in the 6th Wisconsin Battery; was enrolled in Spring Green, this county, in 1861, and participated in nineteen engagements, the principal ones being Corinth, Vicksburg, Chattanooga, Jackson, Mission Ridge and Kingston; was honorably discharged in September, 1863. He married, in Sumter, this county, Miss Louise Uttendorfer, of Spring Green; she was born in Delaware Co., Penn.; they have one child, Frances. Mr. Bailey has been for a number of years engaged in the harness trade; he keeps a full supply in that line in his shop in Prairie du Sac, and promptly attends to repairing.

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