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Bailey, Rufus C.

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a Methodist Episcopal minister, was born in 1799. He was converted at the age of twenty-three, and entered the Maine Conference in 1826. In 1842 he became superannuated, and in 1858 resumed his labors, which he continued till stricken down in 1865 by paralysis, of which he died, Oct. 24, 1866. Many conversions attest Mr. Bailey's fidelity and Christian zeal. See Minutes of Annual Conferences, 1867, p. 133.