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Thomas, Robert Bailey, 1766-1846, American journalist, b. Grafton, Mass. He was the founder and long-time editor (1792-1846) of The Farmer's Almanac[k] (later The Old Farmer's Almanac[k]). The work, which still has a new edition each year, has proven to be the most durable periodical in American publishing. The last important representative of a genre that in the 18th cent. attracted the efforts of up to 200 separate almanac-makers, The Old Farmer's Almanac still provides its readers with a mixture of astrology, weatherlore, practical farming, and anecdotes of homespun New England wit.
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Bailey, Liberty Hyde, 1858-1954, American botanist and horticulturist, b. South Haven, Mich., grad. Michigan Agricultural College (now Michigan State Univ.), 1882. At Cornell Univ. he was professor of horticulture (1888-1903) and dean of the agricultural college and director of the agricultural experiment station (1903-13). Through numerous writings and as chairman of President Theodore Roosevelt's Commission on Country Life (1908), he worked for the improvement of rural life. Bailey was influential in establishing horticulture as a respected science. He wrote many basic works on botany and horticulture, edited The Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture (6 vol., 1914-17; new ed. 1935) and Cyclopedia of American Agriculture (4 vol., 1907-9), and compiled (with E. Z. Bailey) Hortus (1930, rev. ed. 1935) and Hortus Second (1941). Hortus Third was published in 1976.
See biographies by P. Dorf (1956) and A. D. Rodgers (1949, repr. 1965).
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Bailey, Gamaliel, 1807-59, American abolitionist editor, b. Mt. Holly, N.J. In 1837 he succeeded James Birney as editor and publisher of the Philanthropist at Cincinnati. Three times his office was attacked by proslavery mobs, and once the entire establishment was destroyed. From 1847 until his death Bailey ably edited the influential National Era, an abolitionist weekly published in Washington, D.C. Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin first appeared in that journal.
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Aldrich, Thomas Bailey, 1836-1907, American author and editor, b. Portsmouth, N.H. His most widely read work was The Story of a Bad Boy (1870), a vigorous narrative based on his own boyhood. His short stories, especially those in Marjorie Daw and Other People (1873), are noted for their naturalness and craftsmanship. Aldrich also excelled at writing light verse. In 1881 he succeeded W. D. Howells as editor of the Atlantic Monthly, a position he held until 1890.
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(born Nov. 11, 1836, Portsmouth, N.H., U.S.—died March 19, 1907, Boston, Mass.) U.S. poet, short-story writer, and editor. Aldrich left school at age 13 and soon began to contribute to newspapers and magazines. He was editor of The Atlantic Monthly 1881–90. He drew on his childhood for his classic children's novel The Story of a Bad Boy (1870). His use of the surprise ending influenced the development of the short story in the U.S. Aldrich's poems reflect New England culture and his experiences visiting Europe.
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