Liberty Hyde Bailey

Born: 1858   South Haven , MI
Died: 1954
Parents: Liberty Hyde and Sarah Bailey
Spouse: Annette Smith
Children: Sara May, Ethel Zoe
Address(es):
Last known address:
Ithaca , NY

Writings

Image Title Genre Audience Publisher Date
The Cultivated Conifers in North America, Comprising the Pine Family and the Taxads; Successor to the Cultivated Evergreens Non Fiction Adult New York, The Macmillan Company 1933
The Garden Lover Non Fiction Adult New York, The Macmillan Company 1928
The Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture
- 3 volumes
Non Fiction Adult New York, The Macmillan Company 1925
The Cultivated Evergreens; A Handbook of the Coniferous and Most Important Broad-Leaved Evergreens Planted for Ornament in the United States and Canada Non Fiction Adult New York, The Macmillan Company 1923
Cyclopedia of Farm Animals Non Fiction Adult New York: Macmillan & Company 1922
R.U.S. Rural Uplook Service: A Preliminary Attempt to Register the Rural Leadership in the United States and Canada Non Fiction Adult 1918
Universal Service, the Hope of Humanity Non Fiction Adult Sturgis and Walton 1918
What is Democracy? Non Fiction Adult Comstock 1918
Wind and Weather Poetry Adult New York, The Macmillan Company 1916
Outlook to Nature Non Fiction Adult 1915
Plant-breeding Non Fiction Adult New York, The Macmillan Company 1915
The Holy Earth Non Fiction Adult New York: Charles Scribner's Sons 1915
The Country-Life Movement in the United States Non Fiction Adult New York, The Macmillan Company 1911
Beginner's Botany Non Fiction Adult New York, The Macmillan Company 1909
The Training of Farmers Non Fiction Adult New York: Century 1909
Cyclopedia of American Agriculture; A Popular Survey of Agricultural Conditions, Practices and Ideals in the United States and Canada
- Editor and main contributor. 4 volumes.
Non Fiction Adult New York, The Macmillan Company 1907 -1909
The Nature-Study Idea; Being an Interpretation of the New School-Movement to Put the Child in Sympathy with Nature Non Fiction Adult New York: Doubleday, Page 1903
Cyclopedia of American horticulture : comprising suggestions for cultivation of horticultural plants, descriptions of the species of fruits, vegetables, flowers, and ornamental plants sold in the United States and Canada, together with geographical and biographical sketches
- by L.H. Bailey ; assisted by Wilhelm Miller and many expert cultivators and botanists ; illustrated with over two thousand original engravings.
Non Fiction Adult New York : Macmillan, 1902-1903, c1901-1902 1901 -1903
Survival of the Unlike Non Fiction Adult The University of Chicago Press for The American Society of Naturalists 1896
Other writings:
- See MeLCat links.
Non Fiction Adult

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Donated books to the Authors & Illustrators database project: No

Skills:
Author

Awards:

Name Date
The frame house in which he was born in South Haven was dedicated in 1964 with a Michigan Historical Marker 1964
Bailey's birth home in South Haven, MI is gifted to the city as a memorial
- Now established as a museum. Website: http://libertyhydebailey.org/
1938
Gold Medal of Honor, Garden Club of America 1931
Distinguished Service Award, American Association of Nurserymen 1931
Grande Medaille, Societe Nationale d'Acclimatation de France 1928
George Robert White Medal 1927
Gold Medal National Institute Social Science

Inclusion in biographical or critical works:

Name Date
Ink Trails: Michigan's Famous and Forgotten Authors by Dave and Jack Dempsey 2012
American Authors and Books 1640 to Present Day. Veitchian Gold Medal 1927
American Literary Yearbook
Appleton's Cyclopaedia of American Biography
Biographical Dictionary of American Educators
Dictionary of American Biography
Dictionary of Scientific Biography
Lincoln Library of Social Studies
National Cyclopaedia of American Biography
Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans
Webster's American Biographies
Who Was Who among North American Authors
Who Was Who in America

Education:

Degree Institution Location Date
D. Sc University of Puerto Rico Puerto Rico 1932
Litt.D. University of Vermont Vermont 1919
Alfred University 1908
LL.D. University of Wisconsin Wisconsin 1907
Master of Science (M.S.) Michigan Agricultural College (now Michigan State University) East Lansing , MI 1886
Attends
- Assistant to Professor Asa Gray.
Harvard University Cambridge , MA 1883 -1884
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Michigan Agricultural College (now Michigan State University) East Lansing , MI 1882

Career:

Position Organization Location Date
President American Academy of Arts and Science 1926
Chairman
- Appointed by President Theodore Roosevelt
Commission on Country Life 1908
Founder and President American Nature Study Society 1908
Director and Dean College of Agriculture at Cornell University Ithaca, , NY 1903 -1913
Founder and first president American Society for Horticultural Science 1903
Founder New York Agricultural College at Cornell University Ithica , NY 1894
Professor of General and Experimental Horticulture Cornell University New York 1888 -1903
Professor and Chair of Horticulture and Landscape Gardening. Michigan Agricultural College East Lansing , MI 1885 -1888
Assistant to Asa Gray Harvard University Massachusetts 1882 -1883

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