Liberty Hyde Bailey (1858 - 1954)

Born 15 Mar 1858 in South Haven, Van Buren, Michigan, United States

Ancestors

Husband of Annette (Smith) Bailey — married 6 Jun 1883 in Bath, Clinton, Michigan, United States

Descendants

Died 25 Dec 1954 at age 96 in Ithaca, Tompkins, New York, United States

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Biography

Liberty Bailey is Notable.

Liberty Bailey migrated from United States of America to Brazil.

Liberty was born in 1858. He passed away in 1954.

Liberty Hyde Bailey was an American horticulturist, author, botanist, professor, and Dean at Cornell University. He was also cofounder of the American Society for Horticultural Science.

Born in South Haven, Michigan, as the third son of farmers Liberty Hyde Bailey Sr. and Sarah Harrison Bailey. Bailey entered the Michigan Agricultural College (now Michigan State University) in 1878 and graduated in 1882. The next year, he became assistant to the renowned botanist Asa Gray A botanist at Harvard University. The same year, he married Annette Smith, the daughter of a Michigan cattle breeder, whom he met at the Michigan Agricultural College. They had two daughters, Sara May, born in 1887, and Ethel Zoe, born in 1889. In 1885 Bailey returned to M. A. C. to head the horticultural department. He designed the first horticultural laboratory in the U. S. Completed in 1888, the building is still in use at MSU. Bailey Hall a dormitory building at MSU is named for him. In 1888 he left MSU for Cornell University.

" Liberty Hyde Bailey was a complex “man for all seasons” who is not easy to categorize. He was, in equally accomplished ways, a scientist, a teacher, an administrator, an author and editor, a philosopher, an environmentalist, an explorer, and a public servant. He was also in no small measure a prophet."^[1] As dean of the College of Agriculture, he appointed Cornell’s first women professors: Anna Botsford Comstock (summer session 1899), Martha Van Rensselaer and Flora Rose (1911). He further encouraged the development of a home economics curriculum, he was also a horticulturalist, plant breeder, traveler and plant explorer, lobbyist, rural sociologist, philosopher, photographer, poet, and founder and President of many horticultural organizations and groups. He was even appointed by President Theodore Roosevelt to Chair a Commission on Country Life a movement to improve the advancement of Rural farming life. He was a true visionary!

In 1870, Liberty was living in Michigan.

In 1880, Liberty was living in South Haven, Van Buren, Michigan, United States

In 1888 he became the chair of Practical and Experimental Horticulture in Ithaca, New York. He founded Cornell's College of Agriculture in 1904. Cornell's Bailey Hall is named after him.

In 1900, Liberty was living in Ithaca city Ward 4, Tompkins, New York, United States.

In 1920, Liberty was living in Ithaca Ward 4, Tompkins, New York, United States.

In 1930, Liberty was living in Ithaca, Tompkins, New York, United States.

• Fact: Passport Application (1920) New York, United States

• Fact: Immigration (1945) Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

There are some great reference resources about Liberty Hyde Bailey and his countless contributions, interests, extensive travels, research and accolades for his work. Please visit these sites for comprehensive details and photographs.

• https://rmc.library.cornell.edu/bailey/index.html
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberty_Hyde_Bailey
• https://www.libertyhydebailey.org/

He was a prolific author. Besides these books he also wrote many entries for Encyclopedia Britannica. Most of these books are now available in the public domain.

• Talks Afield About Plants and the Science of Plants (1885)
• The Forcing-Book (1897)
• The Principles of Fruit-Growing (1897)
• The Nursery Book (1897)
• Plant-Breeding (1897)
• The Pruning Manual (1898)
• Sketch of the Evolution of our Native Fruits (1898)
• Principles of Agriculture (1898)
• First lessons with plants (1898) (external scan)
• Cyclopedia of American Horticulture, Volume 1, A-D (1900)
• Cyclopedia of American Horticulture, Volume 2, E-M (1900)
• Cyclopedia of American Horticulture, Volume 3, N-Q (1901)
• The Principles of Vegetable Gardening (1901)
• Cyclopedia of American Horticulture, Volume 4, R-Z (1902)
• The State and the Farmer (1908)
• The Nature Study Idea (1909)
• The Training of Farmers (1909)
• Human biology. Parts II & III of First course in biology with W.M. Coleman (1910)
• Manual of Gardening (1910)
• Cyclopedia of American agriculture, Volume 2, Crops (1910)
• "Horticulture," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911) (American (in part))
• The Outlook to Nature (1911)
• The Survival of the Unlike (1911)
• The Country Life Movement (1911)
• The country-life movement in the United States. (1911) (external scan)
• “Preface” to Farmers of forty centuries (1911) by F. H. King
• The Practical Garden Book (1913)
• The Holy Earth (1915)
• Wind and Weather (poetry) (1916)

One passage from "The Holy Earth" I find particularly evergreen:

"If the earth is holy, then the things that grow out of the earth are also holy. They do not belong to man to do with them as he will. Dominion does not carry personal ownership. There are many generations of folk yet to come after us, who will have equal right with us to the products of the globe. It would seem that a divine obligation rests on every soul. Are we to make righteous use of the vast accumulation of knowledge of the planet? If so, we must have a new formulation. The partition of the earth among the millions who live on it is necessarily a question of morals; and a society that is founded on an unmoral partition and use cannot itself be righteous and whole."

Sources

1. ↑ Scott Peters Assistant Professor, Department of Education, Cornell University Lecture Given at the Opening of the Exhibition: Liberty Hyde Bailey: A Man For All Seasons June 10, 2004, Hollis Cornell Auditorium, Goldwin Smith Hall

• "Family Tree," database, FamilySearch (http://familysearch.org : modified 01 September 2020, 17:54), entry for Liberty Hyde Bailey(PID https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/4:1:LVDX-PXW); contributed by various users.
• https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/4:1:LK3Q-SKH); contributed by various users.
• "Family Tree," database, FamilySearch (http://familysearch.org : modified 25 October 2018, 12:55), entry for Liberty Hyde Bailey(PID https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/4:1:LVDX-PXW); contributed by various users.
• New York Almanac, Cornell Agricultural Dean Liberty Hyde Bailey: A Man for All Seasons, April 4, 2022 by Milton Sernett, https://www.newyorkalmanack.com/2022/04/cornell-agricultural-dean-liberty-hyde-bailey-a-man-for-all-seasons/ , accessed 07 Apr 2022.
• Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/6600072/liberty-hyde-bailey : accessed 01 May 2022), memorial page for Liberty Hyde Bailey (15 Mar 1858–25 Dec 1954), Find a Grave Memorial ID 6600072, citing Lake View Cemetery, Ithaca, Tompkins County, New York, USA ; Maintained by Kris 'Peterborough K' Peterson (contributor 46537737) .
• The Spirit of Michigan State, J. Bruce McCristal, 2004, p. 34