N. C. BAILEY, Sheriff, was born October 11, 1847. His father, William Bailey, was a native of New York. He emigrated with his family from Wisconsin when N. C. was quite young, and came to Kansas in 1857 locating at Charleston, Doniphan County, being one of the first settlers in that part. He was closely and prominently identified in this county as a business man for a number of years. His death occurred in 1863. N. C. was reared and educated in Doniphan County. In 1863 he enlisted in Company D., Fourteenth Kansas. He participated in many of the stirring engagements, among which was Saline River, serving until the close of the war, and honorably discharged. Returning home, engaged in agricultural pursuits in Burr Oak Township for four years, after which he removed to Troy and followed plastering and other pursuits until 1881, when he was elected sheriff. Politically he is a Republican. He makes an efficient and trusty official, and the fugitive from justice, when Nat buckles on his armor and strikes out, might as well be in Hades with a beaver ulster on. There are but few in the county more favorably known. He is a member of the K. of H. Was married in 1867 to Miss Missouri King; they have three children by the union, Cora, Gertrude, and Ollie.