Biography of Lucian T. McDaniel - Craighead Co, AR

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SOURCE: Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Northeast Arkansas.
Goodspeed Publishers, 1889.

page 342

Lucian T. McDaniel, merchant and postmaster at Gilkerson, is one
of the prominent and  enterprising business men of Jonesboro Township.
His father, Solomon McDaniel, one of the oldest settlers and leading
citizens of Craighead County, was born in Wilson County, Tenn., July 12,
1820. His paternal grandfather was John F. McDaniel, a native of Randolph
County, N. C., who removed to Tennessee after his marriage to Mary Horn,
by whom he had several children. After her death he was again married, to
Mrs. Mary (Reaves) Thomas, a native of Tennessee. These two were the
parents of seven children, two of hom are now living, viz.: Mary, widow
of William Paultin, and Solomon. Mrs. McDaniel died in Hardin County,
Tenn., and her husband subsequently married again and removed to Arkansas
in 1839. He located several miles below the old farm, and after a few
years removed to Missouri, where he died. His father, Abraham McDaniel
(the paternal great-grandfather of the subject of this sketch), fought
through the Revolutionary War, and John F. was almost old enough to be
mustered into service. Solomon McDaniel was a boy when he came to this
county, and has lived on his present farm thirty-one years. He has been
engaged principally in farming, but is also a blacksmith and gunsmith. He
has a fine farm of 170 acres about five miles south of Jonesboro, and 100
acres are in a splendid state of cultivation. He was married April 6,
1848, to Juliet White, a native of Craighead County, and daughter of
Thomas and Lucy (Trigg) White, residents of this county. To their union
were born thirteen children, seven living, as follows: John T. (married
Margaret Porter, now deceased), Margaret King, William F. (married Sarah
Kellar), Lucian T. (married Matilda Shelton), Andrew J. and three girls.
Mr. McDaniel is a Republican in politics, and was a Union man during the
war. He has been a member of the Christian Church for about fifteen
years, and his wife, two sons and two daughters are members of the same
denomination–all connected with the Christian Valley Church. Lucian T.
McDaniel was born on the old homestead, August 14, 1859, and was reared
on the farm, receiving a fair district school education. When twenty-two
years of age he engaged as a clerk for B. C. Shiery, a grocer of
Jonesboro, and five months later moved to Wiener. Poinsett County,
becoming a merchant of that place. Four months after, when the Cotton
Belt Railroad was opened, he removed to Gilkerson and engaged in
mercantile business. In June, 1887, W. M. Robertson, of Jonesboro, became
a member of the firm now known as Robertson & McDaniel. They keep a stock
of general merchandise and have a very good trade; also operate a saw-
mill (capacity, 6,000 feet per day), and a cotton-gin, and grist-mill
(capacity, 200 bushels per day), and are agents for the Cotton Belt
Railroad and Southern Express Company. Mr. McDaniel was married January
17, 1883, to Matilda J. Shelton, daughter of Stephen and Mahala Shelton,
residents of this township. Their union has been blessed with four
children; Maggie Lee, James Garland, Stephen Andrew and Angie Belle. Mrs.
McDaniel is a pious and charitable lady, and a member of the Christian
Valley Church, of the Christian denomination.