A.D. Bailie

A.D. Bailie, the firm founder, was born in 1857, in Effingham County, Illinois. He attended college in Normal, Illinois, and worked as a public school teacher while studying law the Wood Brothers Law Firm. During the Civil War, A.D. served in the Union Army. He sustained injuries that resulted in retained bullets in his arm. After the end of the war, he sat for the Bar Exam and was admitted to the practice of law in 1881. He re-located to the Storm Lake area and opened his practice. He served as county attorney in Buena Vista county in 1887 through 1888. He was also elected mayor of Storm...