Will County IL Archives Biographies.....Smith, Daniel Young 
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Author: Past and Present of Will County, IL; 1907

Daniel Young Smith, who became a resident of Joliet in 1860 and is now 
conducting a well equipped machine shop, was born in Fallsburg, Sullivan 
county, New York, June 20, 1833. There he resided until 1855, when, at the age 
of twenty-two years, he left his native state and went to Kansas, journeying 
by rail to St. Louis, Missouri, thence by boat up the Missouri river to a 
place now called Burlingame. After a short period he made his way to Chicago, 
Illinois, where he spent a few months, and thence went to Rockford, where he 
found employment in the Manny Harvester & Reaper Works, remaining in that city 
for six months. On the expiration of that period he returned to New York, 
where he worked as a wheelwright for a year and a half. In 1856 he removed to 
Scranton, Pennsylvania, where he was employed as a car builder until the 20th 
of June, 1857. The superintendent of the factory then selected Mr. Smith and 
three others to go with him to Dubuque, Iowa, to work in the shops there for 
the Dubuque & Pacific Railroad Company, and Mr. Smith remained at that place 
until 1860, when he came to Joliet. Here he has since made his home. He was 
first employed in the car-repairing department of the Chicago & Alton Railway 
Company, after which he was appointed foreman, and thus until 1878. In that 
year he engaged in business on his own account and now has a well equipped 
ship. He is recognized as an expert machinist and has done a good business. 
Mr. Smith was married on the 21st of January, 1863, to Mrs. Ruth Eliza 
Tullock, a widow and a native of Delaware county, New York, living on the west 
county line of the county in which Mr. Smith was born. Her natal day was June 
24, 1824, and by her former marriage she had three children: Jannett A., who 
was born in April, 1848, and on the 1st of January, 1872, became the wife of 
Joseph L. Hurd, who died June 12, 1876; Avalena D., who was born in September, 
1851, and became the wife of L. P. Baker, who died in April, 1905; George A., 
who was born in October, 1855, and wedded Mary A. Taylor. Unto Mr. and Mrs. 
Smith was born a daughter, Zuelika Young Smith, who was born November 21, 
1865, and died September 24, 1882, Mr. Smith is a member of Mount Joliet 
lodge, No. 42, A. F. & A. M., with which he has been identified since 1863. He 
has been a supporter of the republican party since casting his first 
presidential vote for Abraham Lincoln. Whatever success he has attained in 
life is due to his own efforts. He has worked persistently and energetically 
and as the years have gone by has made an honored name in business circles. 
Joseph L. Hurd, who married the eldest daughter, Jannett A., was born in 
Concord, Massachusetts, May 18, 1821, and there resided until he reached the 
age of twenty-one years, when he sailed on a whaling vessel. This was three 
years before his departure for Buffalo, New York, where he engaged in the 
grain business for three years. He then went to Detroit, Michigan, where he 
also spent three years, and in 1858 he came to Joliet. In this city he 
continued in the same line of business, being continuously connected with the 
grain trade up to the time of his death, which occurred June 12, 1876. He was 
a representative and reliable business man. whose methods were thoroughly 
trustworthy, and he commanded the confidence of those with whom he came in 
contact. Two sons survive the father: Charles H. Hurd, who was born in 
September, 1872; and W. Ladd Hurd, born in April, 1876. The former is engaged 
in the rice business in Louisiana, while the latter still resides with his 
mother in the old home and is a photographer of Joliet. Mrs. Hurd is well 
known in this city, where she has lived for many years. 

Additional Comments:
PAST AND PRESENT OF WILL COUNTY, ILLINOIS By W. W. Stevens President of the 
Will County Pioneers Association; Chicago: The S. J. Clarke Publishing 
Company, 1907

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