Jesse S. Baily and Pauline J. Osborn

Jesse S. Baily and Pauline J. Osborn
my grandparents

Jesse Sydenham Baily, D.D.S.
1872-1914

Pauline Jane Osborn
1870-1965

My grandfather Baily was born in Freeport, OH, and graduated from the Ohio College of Dental Surgery at the University of Cincinnati in 1893.

Ohio College of Dentistry Class of 1893

First Building of the Ohio College of Dental Surgery University of Cincinnati and the
Graduating Class of 1893

The Ohio College of Dental Surgery was founded by the Ohio Legislature in 1845. It was the second school of its kind (the first dental school was founded in Baltimore). The last class to graduate from the College was in June of 1926. It was a private institution and could not compete with the state-supported insitutions of the time. In 1888 the College had affialited with the University of Cincinnati ; however, although a plea was made for the University of Cincinnati to maintain such a college it declined. After 81 years the college closed.

"The Genesis of Dental Education in the United States" by Van Broadus Dalton, published in Cincinnati, Ohio 1946

Jesse married my grandmother on Oct. 27, 1897 in Indianapolis and within two years they had headed out to the booming mining community of Silverton, Colorado. He practiced dentistry in Silverton until his death at only forty-two years of age.

Dr. Baily had suffered from typhoid fever around 1895, and it apparently caught up with him again in Silverton. He died in 1914 when my father was eleven years old. Grandmother Baily and my father returned to Indianapolis, taking Dr. Baily's body for burial at Circle Grove Cemetery in Spiceland, IN. Read his obit. Here is the official State of Colorado Certificate of Death.

Dr. Baily was an avid photographer in Silverton with his Kodak "pocket" camera. His photographs now reside in the new archives of the San Juan Historical Society. Some of his many images of my father and of the town can be found here.

Pauline Jane Osborn was third born of fifteen children of Charles and Mary Osborn of Clinton County, Ohio. She attended Westown, and after Jesse's death returned there to work. Later, after I was born, she came to Denver to help raise me. She stayed with us until 1960 when she returned to Wilmington, Ohio, to live with her remaining family. She died in Wilmington in 1965 and is buried there at Sugar Grove Cemetery.