Shawnee County KS Archives Biographies.....Duck, Daniel 1826 - 1896
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Author: James L. King (1905)

DANIEL DUCK.

    Among the early settlers in Kansas who became men of means and prominence
was Daniel Duck, who died while on a visit to his old home in Illinois, on
November 30, 1896. He was born in Center County, Pennsylvania, August 23, 1826,
and grew up on his brother's farm, his father having died when our subject was
nine years of age, and was educated in the district schools.

    In 1846 he enlisted for service in the Mexican War, entering Company E,
Third Ohio Regiment, and was honorably discharged in 1847 on account of
disability. He moved to Stephenson County, Illinois, and after his marriage and
the birth of one child came to Kansas in 1857. He settled in Clinton township,
Douglas County, too poor at that time to enter a claim. He soon found work as a
carpenter and then secured a tract of wild land on which there was a log cabin,
in which the family lived for a long time. He was a man of great energy and
industry as well as business judgment. The time came when he owned 700 acres of
fine land. About 1892 he moved to Richland and built a fine home and lived
retired from active farming for about four years before his death. In the Civil
War he took part in the famous battle of the Blue, when the Kansas Home Guards
checked Price's invasion of the State.

    Mr. Duck was married in Stephenson County, Illinois, October 24, 1850, to
Polina E. Wells, who was born May 22, 1827, in Ohio, and accompanied her parents
to Illinois when eight years of age. She is a daughter of Warner and Mary (Rimy)
Wells, natives of New York. Mr. and Mrs. Duck had three daughters, namely: Mary
Angeline, who died aged 17 months; the eldest daughter, who died unmarried; and
Ellen S., who married Curtis-Lamb and died in Richland in 1895, aged 40 years,
leaving six children,— Polina E., wife of Joseph Daily, of Richland; Daniel C.,
of Douglas County; William C., of Oklahoma; Eva S., wife of Anthony Coyne of
Douglas County; Myrtle E., who lives with her grandmother; and Frederick O.
There are 12 great-grandchildren.

    Mr. Duck was a Republican in his early voting days but in the latter part of
his life was a Populist. He was a member of the Farmers' Alliance-He was a
devoted husband, a kind and loving father, a true friend as many-can testify and
an upright, honest man. He became possessed of worldly-goods in large amount but
gained them through years of hard work. He left a large circle of friends by
whom he was much respected as is also his widow who continues to live in the
comfortable home at Richland. With her husband she saw many early hardships but
has lived to enjoy rest and ease in her declining years.


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HISTORY OF SHAWNEE COUNTY, KANSAS
AND
REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS

EDITED AND COMPILED BY
JAMES L. KING
TOPEKA, KANSAS 

"History is Philosophy Teaching by Examples"

PUBLISHED BY
RICHMOND & ARNOLD,
GEORGE RICHMOND; C. R. ARNOLD.
CHICAGO, ILLINOIS,
1905.

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