Calvin Chapin Bayley, the son of James and Hannah Chapin Bayley, was born in Derby, Vermont on December 21, 1809. After attending the Kimball Union Academy in Meridan, New Hampshire, he received both a bachelor and Master of Arts degrees from Amherst College in 1837 and 1840 respectively. After graduation, Mr. Bayley served as the principal of Manlius Academy in Manlius, New York, from 1838 to 1846. During this period he married Miss Ann Fisher, a teacher at the academy.
The Bayley family moved to Waupun, Wisconsin in 1847, where Mr. Bayley conducted his own farm. From 1856 to 1861 he served as principal of Brockway College in Ripon, Wisconsin and from 1866 to 1870 he taught at Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri.
Mr. Bayley died in 1903, after spending the last twenty-eight years of life on his farm in Waupun.
