Los Angeles County CA Archives Biographies.....Meloy, Daniel 1833 - 
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Author: Luther A. Ingersoll (1908)

    DANIEL MELOY was born at Harrisburg, Pa., September 15th, 1833, the son of
John Meloy, a farmer who settled on the western frontier in Ohio at what is now
the City of Wooster, in 1834. In 1836 he removed to Mercer County, Ohio, and
settled on wild land in a dense wilderness. There he developed a good farm. In
1841 he went to Whitney County Ind., and located near the county seat, Columbia,
and developed an eighty acre farm. Later he made a new location in Kosciusko
County, Ind., which became the permanent family home.
    He married Mary Smith at Harrisburg, Pa., and they raised a family of
thirteen children. He died on the old homestead in 1891 at eighty-five years of
age.
    Daniel lived at home until twenty-one years of age. He then spent two years
in Illinois and two years in Iowa. Iowa then had no railroads and corn was worth
but eight cents per bushel. Upon the breaking out of the Civil War he enlisted
in the Federal army, Co. B, 52nd. Ind. Vol. Inf., and went to the front. He was
about nineteen months in the Fifteenth Army Corps, under General Thomas, did
some lively fighting at the battles of Gettysburg, was in the fight at
Shanondoah, Winchester and at Harpers Ferry. He remained in the army until the
war was over. He had two brothers, Seth and Andrew, who responded to the first
call for volunteers. The latter lost his life at Corinth, Miss.

    After the war, Mr. Meloy emigrated to Kansas and located near Senaca, the
county seat of Numah County, and purchased one hundred sixty acres of land.
Later he lived for fifteen years at Fort Scott, Kansas. In 1877 he came to
California and lived a short time at Pasadena. In 1878 he located near Santa
Monica, at what is now Twentieth Street, near Colorado Avenue, where he owns
eight good residence lots.

    Mr. Meloy married in Kosciosko County, Ind., Miss Amarylis F. Thomas, a
daughter of George Thomas, by whom he has four children living—Tryphosa F.,
Horace T. Meloy, a well known and successful business man of Santa Monica;
Rosetta H. and David C. Mrs. Meloy died August 3rd, at sixty-four years of age.


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Ingersoll's century history, Santa Monica Bay cities: prefaced with a brief
history of the state of California, a condensed history of Los Angeles County,
1542 to 1908: supplemented with an encyclopedia of local biography and
embellished with views of historic landmarks and portraits of representative
people.

Los Angeles: Luther A. Ingersoll (1908)


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