Crawford Co., AR - Biographies - John S. Daniel

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SOURCE: History of Benton, Washington, Carroll, Madison, Crawford,
Franklin, and Sebastian Counties, Arkansas. Chicago: The Goodspeed 
Publishing Co., 1889.
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John S. Daniel, father of Thomas L. and William R. Daniel, was the son 
of John R. Daniel, and grandson of William M. Daniel, of Orange 
County, Va. John S. Daniel was born in Spottsylvania County, Va., June 
4, 1814, and moved to Kentucky in 1829. He attended the Catholic 
school at Bardstown, Ky., after leaving which he worked for Samuel P. 
Weisigar, at Frankfort, Ky., and after ward for John Postleth weight, 
at the Phoenix Hotel, Lexington, Ky. After marrying he opened the 
Smiley House, in Bardstown, Ky., and kept it about four years. In 1860 
he immigrated to Crawford County, Ark., which has been his permanent 
home ever since, with the exception of two years during the Rebellion, 
when he made his home in Hempstead County, Ark. He, like a great many 
other Virginians and Kentuckians, was on the losing side of the late 
unpleasantness between the North and South. In polities his first vote 
for President was for Andrew Jackson. In 1860 he voted for John C. 
Breckenridge, and in 1888 for Grover Cleveland.