Nathaniel Platt Bailey

Nathaniel Platt Bailey (June 7, 1809 – October 12, 1891) His maternal grandparents were Phebe (née Smith) Platt and Capt. Nathaniel Platt (brother of Zephaniah Platt and uncle to Judge Jonas Platt and New York State Treasurer Charles Z. Platt).

Career In 1824, Bailey came to New York and entered into business as a merchant, retiring when he was thirty-five years old. Upon his death, the estate was subdivided into streets and avenues and the bulk of the property became the grounds of the current U.S. Veterans Medical Center. He previously served as third vice-president in 1879, second vice-president in 1880 to 1881, and first vice-president from 1882 to 1883.

Personal life On July 26, 1836, Bailey was married to Eliza Meier Lorillard (1815–1900). Eliza was a daughter of Jacob Lorillard Jr., a wealthy leather merchant, and a granddaughter of Jacob Lorillard (son of Pierre Abraham Lorillard, founder of the Lorillard Tobacco Company). Her sister Emily Lorillard married Lewis G. Morris. Together, they were the parents of three children, including:

Ann Mary Bailey (1837–1864), who married her second cousin, Theodorus Bailey Woolsey (1839–1907), a grandson of Theodorus Bailey. Lorillard Bailey (1839–1860), a twin who died aged 21, unmarried. James Muhlenberg Bailey (1839–1897), a twin who married Alletta Remsen Lynch (1870–1930), a daughter of Edward Livingston Lynch and a descendant of Robert Livingston, first Lord of Livingston Manor, and Robert R. Livingston of Clermont. In 1899, his Bronx estate was sold to the Sisters of Charity for $290,000 (equivalent to $ today) and was used to operate the Roman Catholic Orphan Asylum. an amateur architectural historian and photographer, who married Lewis Gouverneur Morris II (1882–1967) in 1908. After Alletta's death, Morris remarried to Anita de Braganza, widow of Prince Miguel, Duke of Viseu.

Bailey is the namesake of a playground known as Bailey Playground and bounding Bailey Avenue in Kingsbridge, Bronx.