BAILEY, EDGAR HENRY SUM

MERFIELD (1848), chemist; 5. Middle field, Conn. He was educated Yale, Str as bourg, Leipzig. Instructor of chemistry, Yale, 1873-4, Lehigh Univ. 1874— 83; profe or of chemistry and metallurgy since 1883, director chemical laboratory since 1900 University of Kansas. Chemist, Kansas State Board of Agriculture since 1885, State Board of Health since 1899. Member of various societies. Author: (with H. P. Cady) Laboratory Guide to Study of Qualitative Analysis (1901); Sanitary and Applied Chemistry (1906); The Source, Chemistry and Use of Food Products (1914). Contributed various scientific and chemical journals. Amer, journalist; was a strong abolitionist; became editor of the National Era (Washington, D.C.), in which Mrs. Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin first appeared (1851-52).