Sir Abe Bailey, Rand mine magnate, dies.
… Cradock, Cape Colony, in 1864. His father, a wagon maker and wool merchant, later moved with his family to Queenstown. … When Bailey was only 7 years old, his mother passed away, and since he had a difficult relationship with his father, … By 1894, he had become the head of the Bailey Group of gold mines and was fast establishing himself as one of the …