CASSINIA 



PROCEEDINGS OF THE DELAWARE 

 VALLEY ORNITHOLOGICAL CLUB 



No. XXIII. PHILADELPHIA, PA. 1919. 



William Loyd Baily^ Sr. 



BY WM. L. BAILY 



This attempt to present a short account of the life of my 

 uncle, whose name I bear, has been made with very limited in- 

 formation; but "before the dust of ages any further dims the 

 fragments " at hand, it is thought high time that a record should 

 be made of one whose life was not only exemplary, but who by 

 his rare accomplishments is entitled to recognition among the 

 eminent naturalists of his day. 



William Loyd Baily, son of Joshua Baily, Jr., and Eliza- 

 beth Loyd was born May 28, 1828, and died March 25, 1861, 

 in the thirty-third year of his age. 



His father was a dry-goods merchant of the firm of Longstreth 

 & Baily, Philadelphia, and his mother, the daughter of Thomas 

 Loyd, a prominent merchant of the same city, and a lineal de- 

 scendant of Thomas Loyd of Wales who came to this country 

 among the early colonists of William Penn. William Baily, the 

 youngest of seven children, was born in Church Alley west of 

 Second, then a residential street, and under the shadow of the 

 famous Christ Church. Soon after the death of his father in 



