- Collection Overview
- Collection Description & Creator Information
- Access & Use
- Collection History
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Collection Overview
- Creator:
- Bailey, Warren Worth, 1855-1928
- Title:
- Warren Worth Bailey Papers
- Repository:
- Public Policy Papers
- Permanent URL:
- http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/2j62s486t
- Dates:
- 1881-1934 (mostly 1890-1928)
- Size:
- 25 boxes
- Storage Note:
- Mudd Manuscript Library (mudd): Box 1-25
- Language:
- English
Abstract
Warren Worth Bailey was the editor of the Johnstown, Pennsylvania newspaper The Daily Democrat from 1893 until his death in 1928 and also served as a Democratic member of the House of Representatives from 1913-1917.
Collection Description & Creator Information
- Description:
The collection consists of Bailey's correspondence with various political figures, family, and friends as well as materials, including clippings, about his election campaigns, the Bailey Bill for the extension of free mail service (1913-1914), a war tax, and the issue of military preparedness. Condolences are also included that were sent to his widow after his death in 1928.
- Collection Creator Biography:
Bailey, Warren Worth, 1855-1928
Warren Worth Bailey was born in New Winchester, Indiana on January 8, 1855. He moved to Illinois with his parents in 1863 and then worked as a telegrapher. In 1875, he joined the Kansas (Ill.) News and learned the printing trade. He purchased the Vincennes News in 1877 and later moved to Chicago in 1887 and was a staff member of the Daily News and later of the Evening Mail. His published the Johnstown, Pennsylvania newspaper The Daily Democrat starting in 1893 that was devoted to the single-tax principle. While unsuccessful in his run as a Democratic candidate in 1906 for Congress, he was a delegate to the Democratic National Convention at Baltimore in 1912 and was elected to the sixty-third and sixty-fourth Congresses. He served as a Democrat in the House of Representatives from 1913-1917. He was unsuccessful when he ran for reelection in 1916 and again in 1920, 1922, and 1926. As a result, Bailey resumed journalism in Johnstown. He died on November 9, 1928
Collection History
- Acquisition:
The Warren Worth Bailey Papers were deposited at Princeton University by the Bailey family in 1948.
Two photographs and a postcard found in the Mudd Library were added to the collection in 2016. The accession number associated with this material is ML.1000.009.
Folder of speeches found in the Mudd Library were added to the collection in 2019. The accession number associated with these materials is ML.2019.015.
- Appraisal
No information about appraisal is available for this collection.
- Processing Information
Collection was processed and finding aid updated by Kelli Yakabu in June 2019. Unrelated publications and books separated from collection.
Access & Use
- Conditions Governing Access
The collection is open for research.
- Conditions Governing Use
Single photocopies may be made for research purposes. For quotations that are fair use as defined under U. S. Copyright Law, no permission to cite or publish is required. For those few instances beyond fair use, researchers are responsible for determining who may hold the copyright and obtaining approval from them. Researchers do not need anything further from the Mudd Library to move forward with their use.
- Credit this material:
Warren Worth Bailey Papers; Public Policy Papers, Department of Special Collections, Princeton University Library
- Permanent URL:
- http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/2j62s486t
- Location:
-
Seeley G. Mudd Manuscript Library65 Olden StreetPrinceton, NJ 08540, USA
- Storage Note:
- Mudd Manuscript Library (mudd): Box 1-25
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- Subject Terms:
- Editors -- Pennsylvania -- Johnstown -- 20th century -- Correspondence.
Floods -- Pennsylvania -- Johnstown -- 19th century.
Legislators -- Pennsylvania -- 20th century -- Correspondence.
Newspaper publishing -- Pennsylvania -- Johnstown -- 20th century.
Postal service -- United States -- 20th century.
Rural free delivery. - Genre Terms:
- Congressional committee reports.
Correspondence. - Names:
- Bailey family
