William Trist Bailey (October 9, 1846,
Torquay
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, Devon, England - February 21, 1910,
New York City
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, United States) was a land developer who founded the community of
Bayswater near
Far Rockaway, Queens
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,
New York City
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. He purchased the land from the descendants of
Richard Cornell
Richard Cornell (16251693) was an English Quaker ironmaster and resident of Long Island who is generally considered the first European settler on the Rockaway Peninsula in the present-day Borough of Queens, New York City. Cornell purchased the Rock ...
in 1878, and turned Bayswater into a fashionable residential neighborhood. Streets in Bayswater which bear his name are Trist Place and Bailey Court.
Bailey is buried in the Maple Grove Cemetery in
Kew Gardens, Queens, New York.
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1846 births
1910 deaths
English emigrants to the United States
Land owners and developers in Rockaway, Queens
People from Torquay
19th-century American businesspeople
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