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"History of Colorado", edited by Wilbur Fisk Stone, published by The S. J. 
Clarke Publishing Co. (1918)  Vol. II


p. 244-246
photo p. 245


THOMAS FRANKLIN DALY.

	Thomas Franklin Daly, president of the Capitol Life Insurance 
Company and also president of the Thomas F. Daly Agency Company, both 
of Denver, is a son of John and Margaret Daly and was born in West 
Superior, Douglas county, Wisconsin, in 1858. He was educated in the 
public schools of northern Michigan, the family having removed to that 
state during his early boyhood. He began his active business career at 
the age of twelve years as an employe of the great Calumet & Hecla 
Copper Company, starting in as mill boy. Being of a mechanical turn of 
mind, he began practical study of engineering and during his continued 
connection with the company aforementioned, he advanced steadily, step 
by step, until he had attained the position of constructing engineer. 
In 1882 he came to Colorado locating in Leadville, where he engaged in 
engineering and many of the mills in that camp were constructed under 
his personal supervision. He later went into the Montana field, 
subsequently returning to Colorado, where he has continued to make his 
home, having been in the meanwhile actively identified with mining and 
also with other Industrial and financial interests of the state. In 
1886 he entered the field of insurance in which he has since been 
active and in which almost a third of a century's experience has made 
him familiar with every phase, and his thoroughness and enterprise have 
constituted the basic elements of his success.

	Prior to the organization of his own company, Mr. Daly was 
connected with some of the largest and best known insurance companies, 
including the New York Life; and was western manager for the London 
Guarantee and Accident, also general agent for the United States Life, 
with which he continued his connection for eleven years. Mr. Daly 
located in Denver in 1895, and in 1905 organized the Capitol Life 
Insurance Company, resigning from all other business connections in 
order that he might give his undivided attention to the interests of 
the new company. Subsequent results have fully justified the methods 
adopted and have substantially confirmed the judgment of the founder, 
for, under the able and experienced guidance of its president, the 
business has steadily expanded until today, the Capitol Life Insurance 
Company operates in eleven states and its books show twenty-eight 
millions of insurance in force, and assets of two million seven hundred 
and fifty thousand dollars.

	In Leadville, Colorado, in 1887, Mr. Daly was united in marriage 
with Miss Elthea Belle Cooper, whose parents were from Galesburg, 
Illinois. They removed to Memphis, Tennessee, after the close of the 
Civil war, in which the father had served with distinction, as a 
captain of artillery. To Mr. and Mrs. Daly have been born a son and two 
daughters: Clarence J., associated with his father in the Insurance 
work as vice president of the Capitol Life Insurance Company; Imogene, 
now Mrs. William S. Fisher, of Denver; and Nelly J. 

	Mr. Daly is well known in social circles, holding membership in 
the Denver, El Paso and Country Clubs while in political adherence, he 
has always been a stalwart advocate of the democratic party and 
principles.