Biography

Excerpt: "Margaret L. Bailey, a daughter of Thomas Shands, was born in Sussex county, Virginia, on the twelfth day of December, 1812. When she was about six years of age her father removed to Ohio, and settled in the vicinity of Cincinnati. In 1833 Miss Shands married Gamaliel Bailey, then a physician in Cincinnati, who, in 1837, became the editor and proprietor of The Philanthropist, the well-known anti-slavery journal, which was merged into The Cincinnati Morning Herald, in the year 1843.

In 1844, Mrs. Bailey undertook the editorial management of The Youth's Monthly Visitor, a handsome quarto paper for little folks, which rapidly grew into favor and attained a large circulation. When, in 1847, Mr. Bailey removed from Cincinnati to Washington City, for the purpose of editing The National Era, Mrs. Bailey transferred the publication of the Visitor to that city, and continued it until 1852. 

After Mr. Bailey's decease, in 1859, Mrs. Bailey was the publisher of the National Era until the time of its suspension, February, 1860. She now resides in Washington City."