Born: 1856
Died: 1930
Married: Leah Delisle
Children: George Bailey, Mrs. Claud Jackson, also Mrs. Francis Hennessy?
Napoleon L. Bailey was a carpenter at Branch and Callanan who made the first pair of skiis created in Saranac Lake. He is buried in Pine Ridge Cemetery.
From History of Skiing in Saranac Lake:
The locals quickly had some skis made by Napoleon Bailey, a carpenter at Branch and Callanan's mill (formerly located near the Union Depot). Bailey, who had become familiar with skiing in Wisconsin, made his skis of beech, yellow birch, or black cherry. They were four to five inches wide, and tapered to a point in front. An iron runner was later added down the center for straight running.
Bailey served as overseer of the poor in Saranac Lake, according to an 1895 news item in the Ogdensburg Advance and St. Lawrence Weekly Democrat.
He is buried in Pine Ridge Cemetery.
Plattsburgh Sentinel, September 18, 1891
SARANAC LAKE.
SEPT 3 —A number of our people are putting up new buildings. John Collins has his house completed and is putting up a barn also, Napoleon Bailey is putting up a house.
Adirondack Record-Elizabethtown Post, December 16, 1926
Mrs. Francis Hennessy has been called home from West Palm Beach, Fla., Saturday night, because of the serious illness of her mother, Mrs. Napoleon Bailey.
Plattsburgh Daily Republican, September 4, 1929
Mrs. Claud Jackson recently visited her father, Napoleon Bailey of Saranac Lake, who is a patient at the Physicians' hospital of Plattsburgh
