Biography of Edward Davies McDaniel, Mobile, Alabama

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EDWARD DAVIES McDANIEL

     Edward Davies McDaniel, of Mobile, Alabama, was born in Chester County, 
     S. C., July 07, 1822.  He belongs to the Scotch-Irish element of our population.  
     His grandfather was Edward McDaniel, a soldier of the Revolution, who died after 
     the close of that War, of a wound received in his country's service; his grandmother 
     was Elizabeth McCaw McDaniel, who like many other women of the period, lived to 
     ripe old age.  His father was William McDaniel, a civil engineer and a teacher of 
     mathematics.  His mother was Jane Strong McDaniel.  His father died at the early 
     age of forty-one years, having six children, most of them small and helpless.  The 
     administrator of the small estate that was left, ran away with the proceeds, and 
     left the mother and children to struggle for subsistence as best they could.  Edward 
     Davies, the second in age of the three boys, being only eight years old, attended the 
     instructions of some graduates of Edinburgh, who for a number of years taught in the 
     vicinity.  On reaching the age of twelve years, he had completed geography, arithmetic, 
     English, grammar, and book-keeping.  He then spent eighteen months in a mercantile house, 
     and thence, after attending some high schools for a time, he repaired to Erskine College, 
     S. C., where after six years of incessant study [he took no vacations], he received in 
     1844, the degree of A. B...   (This is a lengthy biography]  On May 12, 1858, he was 
     married to Miss Magilda Blair Tabb, of Dallas County, Alabama, who made him the father 
     of nine children, and died in 1890....

Ref:  Stone, R. French, M. D., BIOGRAPHY OF EMINENT AMERICAN PHYSICIANS AND SURGEONS, 1894, 
      Carlon & Hollenbeck, Publishers, Indianapolis, p. 301.