Will County IL Archives Biographies.....Hayden, Daniel 
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Author: Genealogical & Biographical Record

DANIEL HAYDEN, a large farmer and extensive cattle dealer of Florence 
Township, was born in Kennebec County, Me., August 13, 1839, a son of John and 
Hannah (Kinsella) Hayden.  He was one of seven children, five of whom are 
living, namely: Mary, who is married, and resides on a farm in Maine; Daniel, 
of this sketch; Thomas and John, farmers of Florence Township; and Hannah, 
also of this county. The paternal grandfather, Daniel Hayden, a native of 
Ireland, was one of the active participants in the rebellion of 1798.  When 
advanced in years, in 1845, he came to America, and a few months later died at 
the home of his son John. His wife bore the maiden name of Catherine Donahue, 
and died in Ireland in early womanhood.

John Hayden was born in Ireland in 1815, and when twenty years of age sought a 
home in the new world.  He purchased land in Lincoln County, Me., and for some 
years cultivated that place.  In 1851 he came west to Illinois and settled in 
Joliet, where he bought teams, hired men, and engaged in teaming to the 
quarries and railroads.  After five years in that business he resumed farming, 
buying fifty-three acres on section 12, Florence Township.  He was prosperous 
to such an extent that he became the owner of one thousand and two hundred 
acres, and was rated among the wealthy men of the township.  Politically he 
was a Democrat, and in religion a Roman Catholic.  His death occurred on his 
farm, April 5, 1889. His wife, who was born in Ireland and died in this 
county, February 28, 1890, was a daughter of Patrick and Bridget (Burns) 
Kinsella.  Her father died in Ireland, after which her mother, with a sister, 
came to America about 1850, and afterward made her home with a son until she 
died.  The Kinsella family at one time was very wealthy, and owned valuable 
landed interests, but, on account of not affiliating with the Established 
Church, in the seventeenth century their property was confiscated.

When the family came to Illinois our subject was twelve years of age.  He grew 
to manhood in this county, and attended the country and city schools.  January 
26, 1862, he went to Wheeling, W. Va., where he secured employment on a 
government commissary boat.  In this work he continued until the 4th of July, 
1864.  His first trip was the conveying of a load of bran from St. Louis to 
Wheeling, and on the return trip the boat was pressed into the government 
service. On his return to this county he resumed work on the home farm.  At 
the death of his father the homestead of four hundred acres and two hundred 
and forty acres one mile east fell to his mother, sister and himself, and when 
the mother died her portion fell to him and his sister.  He is one of the 
leading cattle-feeders in the township, and has been especially successful in 
this line of work. In religion he is connected with the Roman Catholic Church 
at Twelve-Mile Grove. Politically he votes with the Democrats.  He has never 
married, but with his sister continues to live at the old homestead to which 
he came in his youth, and in the improvement of which he has been interested 
ever since.

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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