Chad Fred Bailey is a historian and a very avid genealogist. He is a graduate of East Tennessee State University in the Masters of Arts in Liberal Studies program concentrating in Archival Studies with hopes of becoming an Archivist. He is currently a Production Planner for EBM papst in Telford, Tennessee. He began his career as an accounts payable representative at A. O. Smith (American Water Heater Co.) in Johnson City, where he served as Assembly Production Representative from 2018 to 2021, and Planner I from 2021 to 2023. He was a graduate assistant at the Heritage Alliance of Northeast Tennessee and Southwest Virginia from August 2014 to April 2016. He is a 2014 graduate of East Tennessee State University with a Bachelors of Business Administration with a major of Accounting and minor in Management and Bachelors of Arts with a major of History and minor in Appalachian Studies. He is a 2009 graduate of David Crockett High School, Jonesborough. He served the Jonesborough Genealogical Society in a variety of positions including President, Vice President, Treasurer, Webmaster, and other duties He received the 2012 Tennessee Historical Commission’s Special Commissioner’s Certificate of Merit for his work with the Washington County, Tennessee Obituary Project. He, also, has been inducted into the 2014 class of the Jonesborough Genealogical Society’s Hall of Fame.

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