Author: Bailey, Isaac
Biography:
BAILEY, Isaac (1788-1824: ancestry.com)
Born in Auburn MA on 25 May 1788, the son of Isaac and Elizabeth (Emerson) Brown, he attended Brown University in Providence RI. On 5 Jan. 1810 he married Jane Whitman (1788-1886) at Bristol RI; they went on to have four sons. In 1815, having contributed some biographies of naval officers to Philadelphia magazines, he compiled and published a volume of them in Providence as American Naval Biography. He appears to have written all but one of the biographies himself; the other contributor was Washington Irving (1783-1859). He died in 1824 and was buried at Swan Point cemetery, Providence. (ancestry.com 3 July 2025; Brown University Archives) HJ
Books written (1):
Providence [RI]: printed by David Hawkins, Jr., 1812