Gamaliel Bailey, an American journalist, born at Mount Holly, N. J., Dec. 3, 1807, died at sea, June 5, 1859. He studied medicine in Philadelphia, taking his degree in 1828. After making a brief visit to China in the capacity of physician to a ship, he began his career as an editor in Baltimore, in conducting the "Methodist Protestant." In 1831 he removed to Cincinnati, and in 1836 joined James G. Birney in conducting the first anti-slavery newspaper in the West, the "Cincinnati Philanthropist." During the first year their printing establishment was twice assailed by a mob, the press thrown into the Ohio river, and the books and papers burned. In 1841 his press was again destroyed by a mob, but he continued the publication of his paper in Cincinnati till after the presidential election of 1844. He was afterward selected to be the editor of a new anti-slavery paper at Washington, under the auspices of the American and foreign anti-slavery society, and the "Philanthropist" became merged in the "National Era," the first number of which appeared Jan. 1, 1847. In 1848 he had his last conliict with popular violence, when a mob for three days besieged his office. The "Era" was an influential organ of the anti-slavery party, and had some literary pretensions.

It was the medium for the first publication of Mrs. Stowe's "Uncle Tom's Cabin." At the time of his death Dr. Bailey was on a voyage to Europe for the benefit of his health.