C. E. BAILEY, mill owner, Elk Rapids, was born near Bangor, Maine, in 1817; moved to Massachusetts in 1861, when he enlisted in the First Massachusetts Cavalry; served three years and three months; after being discharged from the service returned to Massachusetts; from there went to Canada and there worked at farming four years, and in 1876 came to Kalkaska County and worked at lumbering till 1879, when he came to Fife Lake; was engaged in C. C. Bailey's store as clerk for three years. Since that time has been farming. A short time since sold his farm and built a mill at Elk Rapids, Antrim County. Married in August, 1877, to Electa Goodman,: a native of Canada.
 

Approx arrival - 1882