Loring Woart Bailey, (28 September 1839 – 10 January 1925) was a geologist, botanist and university professor.
[1][2] He was born at West Point, New York, the son of a professor at the academy.
[3] He received a good education which was reinforced at home through interaction with his father and other academics.
[4] Bailey had a 46-year teaching career at the University as well as much notable research in geology and in 1899 William Francis Ganong, a naturalist friend, named a mountain in New Brunswick after him.
His grandson Alfred Bailey was an important poet and academic.