Silas Bailey (June 12, 1809 – June 30, 1874) was an American educator. He was the second president of Franklin College and the third president of Denison University.

Silas Bailey
Born	June 12, 1809  Sterling
Died	June 30, 1874  (aged 65) Paris

Silas Bailey was born on June 12, 1809 in Sterling, Massachusetts.^[1]

He graduated from Brown University in 1834, studied at Newton Theological Seminary, and was for a time a pastor in Massachusetts. He became principal of Worcester Academy about 1840, and, after several years, was elected president of Granville College, afterward Dennison University, Granville, Ohio, where he remained for ten years. He then became president of the newly established college at Franklin, Indiana, where he remained until his health failed. After filling a pastorate at Lafayette for three years he accepted the professorship of theology at Kalamazoo College, Michigan. Bailey published sermons, addresses, and reviews.

Silas Bailey died on 30 June 1874 in Paris, France. He bequeathed his library to Franklin College.

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Wilson, J. G.; Fiske, J., eds. (1891). "BAILEY, Silas". Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography. New York: D. Appleton.