Editing Liberty Hyde Bailey (section)

==Biography==
Born in [[South Haven, Michigan]], as the third son of farmers Liberty Hyde Bailey Sr. and Sarah Harrison Bailey. In 1876,  Bailey met [[Lucy Millington]] who encouraged his interest in botany and mentored him.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Bailey|first=Liberty Hyde|date=1939-01-01|title=Lucy Millington|url=https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/32128731|journal=Torreya; A Monthly Journal of Botanical Notes and News|volume=39|pages=159–163|via=Biodiversity Heritage Library}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|title=The Science Education of American Girls: a Historical Perspective.|last=Tolley|first=Kim|date=2014|publisher=Taylor and Francis|isbn=9781135339203|location=Hoboken|page=116|oclc=876513332}}</ref> Bailey entered the Michigan Agricultural College (MAC, now [[Michigan State University]]) in 1877 and graduated in 1882 (he had taken a year off from study for health reasons). The next year, he became assistant to the renowned botanist [[Asa Gray]], of [[Harvard University]]. This was arranged by a professor at MAC, [[William James Beal]].<ref>{{cite book|last=Dupree|first=A. Hunter|year=1988|title=Asa Gray, American Botanist, Friend of Darwin|publisher=Johns Hopkins University Press|location=Baltimore, Maryland|isbn=978-0-801-83741-8|pages=384–385, 388}}</ref> Bailey spent two years with Gray as his herbarium assistant.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://botlib.huh.harvard.edu/libraries/archives/BAILEYH.html|title=Liberty Hyde Bailey Jr. (1858-1954) Papers|publisher=Harvard University Herbaria|access-date=March 8, 2015|archive-date=April 2, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150402154749/http://botlib.huh.harvard.edu/libraries/archives/BAILEYH.html}}</ref> The same year, he married Annette Smith, the daughter of a Michigan cattle breeder, whom he met at the Michigan Agricultural College. They had two daughters, Sara May, born in 1887, and [[Ethel Zoe Bailey|Ethel Zoe]], born in 1889.

In 1884 Bailey returned to MAC to become professor and chair of the Horticulture and Landscape Gardening Department, establishing the first horticulture department in the country.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://rise.natsci.msu.edu/about/who-was-liberty-hyde-bailey/ | title=Who Was Liberty Hyde Bailey?}}</ref>

In 1888, he moved to [[Cornell University]] in [[Ithaca, New York]],<ref>{{cite web|url=http://bhort.bh.cornell.edu/bailey.htm|access-date=September 26, 2017|title=Liberty Hyde Bailey}}</ref> where he assumed the chair of Practical and Experimental Horticulture. In 1896, he was elected to the [[American Philosophical Society]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=APS Member History |url=https://search.amphilsoc.org/memhist/search?creator=Liberty+H.+Bailey&title=&subject=&subdiv=&mem=&year=&year-max=&dead=&keyword=&smode=advanced |access-date=2024-03-08 |website=search.amphilsoc.org}}</ref> He was elected an Associate Fellow of the [[American Academy of Arts and Sciences]] in 1900.<ref name=AAAS>{{cite web|title=Book of Members, 1780-2010: Chapter B|url=http://www.amacad.org/publications/BookofMembers/ChapterB.pdf|publisher=American Academy of Arts and Sciences|access-date=5 May 2011}}</ref> He founded the [[Cornell University College of Agriculture and Life Sciences|College of Agriculture]], and in 1904 he was able to secure public funding. He was dean of what was then known as New York State College of Agriculture from 1903 to 1913. In 1908, he was appointed Chairman of The [[Country life movement|National Commission on Country Life]] by president [[Theodore Roosevelt]]. Its 1909 Report called for rebuilding a great agricultural civilization in America. In 1913, he retired to become a private scholar and devote more time to social and political issues. In 1917 he was elected a member of the [[United States National Academy of Sciences]].<ref>{{cite journal|url=http://www.nasonline.org/publications/biographical-memoirs/memoir-pdfs/bailey-liberty-h.pdf|title=Liberty Hyde Bailey 1858—1954|author=Banks, Harlan P.|journal=Biographical Memoirs|volume=64|year=1994}}</ref>

He edited ''The Cyclopedia of American Agriculture'' (1907–09), the ''Cyclopedia of American Horticulture'' (1900–02) (continued as the ''Standard Cyclopedia Of Horticulture'' (1916–1919){{sfn|Bailey|1919}}) and the ''Rural Science, Rural Textbook, Gardencraft,'' and ''Young Folks Library'' series of manuals. He was the founding editor of the journals ''Country Life in America'' and the ''Cornell Countryman.'' He dominated the field of horticultural literature, writing some sixty-five books, which together sold more than a million copies, including scientific works, efforts to explain botany to laypeople, a collection of [[poetry]]; edited more than a hundred books by other authors and published at least 1,300 articles and over 100 papers in pure taxonomy.<ref name=cornell>{{cite web|url=http://rmc.library.cornell.edu/bailey/writings/index.html|title=Liberty Hyde Bailey Writings|publisher=Cornell University Library|access-date=September 21, 2013}}</ref> 

He coined the words ''[[cultivar]]'',<ref>Bailey, L.H. (1923). Various cultigens, and transfers in nomenclature. ''Gentes Herb''. 1: pages 113-136</ref> ''[[cultigen]]'',<ref>Bailey, L.H. (1918). The indigen and the cultigen. ''Science'' ser. 2, 47: pages 306-308.</ref> and ''[[indigen]]''. His most significant and lasting contributions were in the botanical study of cultivated plants. Bailey's publisher was [[George Platt Brett, Sr.]] of [[Macmillan Publishers (United States)]].<ref>{{cite book|title=Biographic Memoirs V. 64|page=9}}</ref>