Biography for Capt. Daniel M. Candor

Capt. Daniel M. Candor was born in Columbia county, 
Pennsylvania, in 1836, and came with his parents, Thomas and 
Margaret (Montgomery) Candor, to Mercer county when he was 
one year old. His early education was such as he could get
in the pioneer schools of his neighborhood, with two years' 
course in the academy at Macomb, Illinois. He remained on 
the farm with his parents till of age. He went to Pike's 
Peak in 1859, stayed two years, returned in 1860, and
enlisted in 1861, in company A, 30th Ill. Vol., and served 
a few days over four years. He first enlisted for three 
years, or during the war, and afterward veteranized at 
Vicksburg. He was in the following engagements:  Belmont, 
Fort Henry, Fort Donelson, the skirmishes around Shiloh, 
Brittin's Lane, Port Gibson, Raymond, Jackson, Mississippi, 
Champion Hills, siege of Vicksburg, Kennesaw Mountain, sieges 
of Atlanta, Savannah, Charleston, Raleigh, Bentonville, and 
Goldsborough, and then went to Washington by way of Richmond. 
He was commissioned captain of his company October 27, 1864, 
which commission he held till the company was mustered out 
of the service.  Following the siege of Vicksburg he was 
promoted to the office of orderly sergeant from the office 
of commissary sergeant. At the battle of Atlanta he received 
a wound in the head.

His parents located in Ohio Grove township when they came to 
Mercer county, and continued to reside there till 1856. His 
mother died in 1871, at the age of seventy-five years. His 
father, Thomas  Candor, was married a second time to Mary L. 
Boardman, and died in 1874, agedseventy-five years. Capt. 
Candor's parents, Margaret and Thomas, were both natives of 
Pennsylvania. Capt. Candor was married in 1868 to Emma J. 
Girton, a native of Pennsylvania, born in 1842, and daughter 
of Baltis and Anna E. Girton, both of Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania. 
They came to Illinois in 1872, and now live in Hamlet. Mr. and 
Mrs. Candor have three children: Graham L., born in 1868, 
Thomas G., 1870, and Edna, in 1879. He has a well improved 
farm of 175 acres, adjoining Hamlet. He keeps a good grade of 
all kinds of stock. He and his brother Josiah were partners 
in the mercantile business in Hamlet from 1867 to 1881. He and 
his wife are members of the Presbyterian church at Hamlet.

- "History of Mercer County", H.H. Hill and Company, Chicago 1882


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