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Hollister, he held the positions of County Clerk, Recorder and Assessor respectively.
On October 12, 1871, at the home of his relative
William Stark, he was united in marriage to Susan F.
Griffith of Louisiana, Missouri. 5. To them were born
two children, Vivie Alice Rector on April 19, 1873 (Pike
County, Missouri) and Jesse Guy Rector, February 16,
1877 in Hollister, California.
Bayliss, with his brother John, moved to Nevada
City, California where they first leased the Union Hotel
and then the National Hotel and Exchange which they
Jater purchased.
In 1896 he was elected mayor of Nevada City
and served for four years giving the municipality a business-like, practical administration.
While in office the water works and sewer
systems were installed at an expenditure of
about one hundred thousand dollars and a
great many other improvements were instituted. (2)
Rector Road, Nevada City was named in his honor.
Bayliss was one of the organizers and vice-president
of the Nevada County Promotion Committee, formed for
the purpose of advertising the resources of the county
and securing the investment of capital in Nevada City.
The committee was most successful and among other
accomplishments, it made an exhibit for the Louisiana
Purchase Exposition at St. Louis that was valued at
$25,000. At the time that President Theodore Roosevelt
made his trip to California, this committee presented him
with a small mineral cabinet, eight by twelve inches, which
was a very handsome piece of work — filled with choice
gold specimens and valued at $15,000. It was presented
to the president at Colfax as he was enroute west, as a
testimonial from the citizens of Nevada County and.