Bailey  W.  Lansdow^n  was  born  on  a  farm  ii
;\Iiller  connly,  near  Iberia,  the  9th  day  of  June,  185i
where  he  continued  until  twenty-one  years  of  agf
when  he  started  out  in  the  world  to  fight  the  battl
of  life  on  his  own  account;  when  he  left  his  parenta
roof  his  wealth  consisted  of  -liill.Ci.j.  His  first  wor
(m  his  own  account  was  in  Jackson  county,  wher
he  engaged  in  husking  corn.  He  soon  after  wen
to  P>utler.  the  county  seat  of  Bates,  where  his  firs
l)osition  was  clerk  of  a  hotel.  He  renuiined  in  Bu
ler  five  years,  when  he  engaged  as  a  traveling  sales
man.    selling   tobacco,    in    which    he    continued   on


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