Silas Bailey ( – ) was an American educator. He was the second president of Franklin College and the third president of

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. Silas Bailey was born on in

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. He graduated from

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in 1834, studied at Newton Theological Seminary, and was for a time a pastor in Massachusetts. He became principal of

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about 1840, and, after several years, was elected president of Granville College, afterward Dennison University,

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, where he remained for ten years. He then became president of the newly established college at

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, where he remained until his health failed. After filling a pastorate at Lafayette for three years he accepted the professorship of theology at

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, Michigan. Bailey published sermons, addresses, and reviews. Silas Bailey died on 30 June 1874 in

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. He bequeathed his library to Franklin College.

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