Dade County FlArchives Biographies.....Killian, Daniel L. 1870 - 
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Source: Vol. II  pg.135  The Lewis Publishing Co. 1923
Author: History of Florida, Past and Present       

        DANIEL L. KILLIAN, who for a number of years was a master figure in
business circles at Memphis, came to Florida primarily to regain his health,
but found such attractions in the community of Kendall in Dade County that he
has remained here permanently, has established and built up a successful
mercantile business, and is one of the present county commissioners of Dade
County.
	Mr. Killian was born in Chickasaw County, Mississippi, in 1870, son of 
ANDREW and CARRIE (BROWN) KILLIAN. His mother is still living. The Killian 
family is of German ancestry. During the period of the Reformation as adherents 
of Martin Luther they were forced out of Germany by religious persecution, and 
about 1640 some of the family came to America and settled in South Carolina. 
Their place of settlement became known as Killian’s Mill, and that is still 
known by that name in the geography of South Carolina. The grandfather of the 
Kendall business man, DANIEL KILLIAN, in 1828 removed to Madison, Georgia, 
where ANDREW KILLIAN was born. ANDREW KILLIAN in 1853 moved to Mississippi, 
first locating at Columbus and then on a plantation in Chickasaw County. He had 
a record as a Confederate soldier of four years’ service. CARRIE BROWN, his 
wife, is a cousin of ex-Governor NEIL S. BROWN of Tennessee.
	DANIEL L. KILLIAN graduated from the Mississippi Normal College at
Buena Vista in 1890. He has had an active business career of practically a
third of a century. For six or seven years his home was at Atlanta, Georgia, 
where he was branch manager for the H. J. Heinz Pickle Company of Pittsburgh. 
Memphis was his home for 19 ½ years. He was Memphis manager for the
Lawrenceburg Roller Mills Company of Lawrenceburg, Indiana, the largest flour
manufacturing plant in Indiana. He developed an extensive business for the
products of this plant, his territory including Tennessee, Mississippi and
Arkansas.
	Mr. Killian came to Florida in 1916. A brief visit at Kendall was the
means of winning him as a permanent citizen of this locality. He purchased a
mercantile business that had been conducted by the firm Moss & Company, and
continued this as one of the prosperous establishments of this rich and
beautiful section. He has also invested in citrus groves, and at all times has
sought opportunities to identify himself with the promoters of Kendall and
vicinity.
	In the spring of 1922 Mr. Killian was induced by his friends to make
the race for the democratic nomination as county commissioner for the Fourth
District. At the primaries of June 7, 1922, he received the nomination over the
incumbent of the office, and was elected in November, taking his place on the
board January 1, 1923. He was nominated and elected with no promises outside of
those to do his full duty at all times.
	Mr. Killian married Miss MARY MOORE, a native of Mississippi, where her
father was a physician and planter. Their three children are A. D. KILLIAN,
MARY MOORE, now the wife of I. C. HENDERSON, and VIRGINIA.


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