[1] He taught school in Newbury, then met John Lindsey, the proprietor of the Fabyan House resort hotel in New Hampshire.

[1] Bailey became a manager at Lindsey hotels; besides the Fabyan House, he worked at resorts in Lancaster, New Hampshire, Old Orchard Beach, Maine, and Eastman, Georgia.

[2] A civic activist, Bailey was head of the board of trustees for Newbury's Tenney Memorial Library.

[6] Federal district court judge Hoyt Henry Wheeler then appointed Field's chief deputy Frank H. Chapman to temporarily fill the vacancy.

[7] Following Field's removal, President Theodore Roosevelt asked Vermont's Congressional delegation to recommend a replacement.

[4] For many years, Bailey's girth and ongoing health problems required him to walk with the aid of a cane.

[9][10] This collection was covered in newspapers nationwide in 1904, after Bailey received a carved bamboo cane from a friend in the U.S. Army who had recently returned from a trip to Japan.

[9][10] According to contemporary press accounts, Bailey's collection included a lignum vitae cane from the Philippines which was a gift from Mason S. Stone, and one made of pine recovered from the floor of the Confederacy's Civil War-era Libby Prison.

[12][13] In 1904, Bailey purchased Newbury's old schoolhouse, which had been constructed in 1839, as a repository for his private library of works on the history of Vermont.

[14][15] It was later restored, and is now the Horace W. Bailey Club, a meeting facility for several different organizations and civic groups.