Will County IL Archives Biographies.....Daly, John 
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Author: Genealogical and Biographical Record of Will County

JOHN DALY, one of the old settlers of Lockport Township, stands high in the 
regard of his acquaintances, and deserves all that kind fortune can bestow. 
All that he has and all that he is may be attributed to his determination of 
character and his industry. When he came to this county a young man, without 
friends or means, he was glad to secure work at $6 a month. From that small 
beginning he has worked his way to a competence and an assured position among 
the farmers and dairymen of his township. A son of Edward and Lucinda Daly, 
our subject was born in 1825, and was nineteen years of age when he embarked 
for America on the sailing vessel "Lord Seaton." After a voyage of nine weeks 
he landed in New York, from which city he went by boat up the Hudson to 
Albany, then crossed New York state by rail to Buffalo, and from there came on 
the great lakes to Chicago, completing his journey by wagon to Will County. On 
his arrival in Lockport Township, in the latter part of 1844, he secured work 
by the month, and afterward for several years was em ployed at farming and 
teaming. For a time he was engaged in the construction of the Illinois and 
Michigan canal on the Lockport section. The lessons of frugality and industry 
acquired in his childhood helped him in this country, and he carefully saved 
his money until he was able to buy one hundred and twelve acres of timber land 
near his present location. However, he lacked a small sum of having enough to 
pay for the entire tract and was obliged to go in debt for a part of the 
place. The land was in its primeval condition. He was forced to do 
considerable "grubbing'' and clearing before he could commence its 
cultivation. He enclosed the land by good fences and built a small house. As 
he prospered, he bought other land, until he now owns nearly seven hundred 
acres. His dairy interests are extensive; he owns about fifty cows and ships 
milk to Chicago, having shipped to the same firm there for twenty-two years. 
His residence is a substantial stone building, the stone for which he hauled 
from Lockport on the canal when it was frozen over during the winter months. 
Beside his home property he owns a number of business houses in Lockport. In 
April, 1849, Mr. Daly married Miss Julia Walker, who had come to Will County 
the year before their marriage. They became the parents of eight children, 
four of whom are living, Thomas, Margaret, Susan and Edward. Margaret married 
John McCoy, a farmer and dairyman in Lockport Township; they have six 
children: Julia, Susan, Matilda, Sadie, Edwin and Ellen. The younger daughter, 
Susan, is the wife of George Bush, who lives in Wayne, Neb.; they are the 
parents of four children, Julia, Georgiana, John and Lotta. Thomas Daly, the 
older of Mr. Daly's surviving sons, is a prosperous farmer of Crawford County, 
Kails. He is an industrious, enterprising and intelligent farmer, and well 
merits the success he is gaining in his agricultural enterprises. While still 
a mere boy he began to save money, and this he afterward invested in land, 
thus gaining a foothold for future prosperity. He married Margaret, daughter 
of Riley Ritchey, of Homer Township, and grand-daughter of James Ritchey, who 
came from Chillicothe, Ohio, to Illinois, at a very early day, and was living 
at Fort Dearborn at the time of the Blackhawk war. Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Daly 
have six children now living, namely: John E., Susan M., Eva L., Cleveland R., 
Jessie and Thomas. Edward Daly, the younger of our subject's sons, assists his 
father in the management of the home farm. He married Suella Bush, by whom he 
has three children, William, Clara and Prudence. Another son of our subject, 
David, was born and reared on the old Daly homestead, and married Sarah 
Kirman, by whom he had six children, Jennie, Julia, George E., Margaret, Grace 
and David. He was a member of the Episcopal Church, and in politics a 
Democrat. He was fond of military affairs, and was a member of the Joliet 
Light Artillery, with which he served under Colonel Bennitt in some of the 
noted strikes. Personally, he was genial and popular, a man with hosts of 
friends and many enemies. He died September 23, 1892. The subject of this 
sketch was reared in the Presbyterian faith, and has always aided in its work, 
besides which he has contributed to the Episcopal Church in Lockport. The 
Democratic party receives his support in national elections, but in local 
matters he is independent. He has never desired office for himself, preferring 
to devote his time wholly to his farm and dairy interests.

Additional Comments:
Genealogical and Biographical Record of Will County Illinois Containing 
Biographies of Well Known Citizens of the Past and Present, Biographical 
Publishing Company, Chicago, 1900

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