Bio: Lark O. Daniel, Natchitoches Parish, Louisiana
Submitted by: Gaytha Carver Thompson
Source: Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Northwest Louisiana
The Southern Publishing Company, Chicago & Nashville,  1890



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LARK O. DANIEL
Attorney, Robeline, La

Mr. Daniel is a young legal practitioner, who is steadily and surely making
his way to the front in his profession of law, and as a prominent and useful
citizen.  He is well versed in law, and has all the attributes essential to a
successful career at the bar and in public.  He owes his nativity to Monroe
County, Ala., born March 16, 1866, and is the son of Joseph L. and Amanda
(Daily) Daniel, a more extensive mention of whom is made elsewhere in this
work.

When Lark O. Daniel was six years of age his parents removed to the State of
Louisiana, and located at Many, Sabine Parish, where he was reared to mature
years, and where he received his early education.  At sixteen years of age he
took up the vocation of a teacher, as a temporary pursuit.  About the time he
began teaching he also entered upon the study of law, and during the time he
was in the school room, he spent the leisure time he had in the evenings in
this study.  His preceptor during the first two years was Hon. J. Fisher,
late State senator from the Fourth District.  He subsequently pursued his
legal studies under the direction of Judge D. Pierson, of Natchitoches, and in
August, 1887, he was admitted to the bar at Shreveport.  Meanwhile, in 1884,
he had entered upon the practice of law at Robeline, and while his
familiarity with the law at that time fully entitled him to admission to the
bar, he could not legally be admitted on account of his age.  He has been
engaged in the active practice of his profession at Robeline ever since, but
aside from this he is also deep in merchandising, having won for himself a
widespread reputation as a merchant.  Although he began on a comparatively
small scale in merchandising four years ago, his business has assumed mammoth
proportions, all the result of his agreeable manners and the confidence that
the people have in him.  His business amounts annually to about $60,000, and
his trade extends over a large part of Louisiana, Texas and Arkansas.

Mr. Daniel was married on February 11, 1886, to Miss Mary F. Collier, of
Shreveport, La.  In politics Mr. Daniel is a Democrat.  He takes a great
interest in local politics, and his influence for his party is not only
exerted in its private councils but also upon the stump He is a young man
whose brilliancy, push and progressiveness can not but enable him to achieve
marked success.  Though he is now but twenty four years of age he has already
won a place in legal circles, and in the commercial world of which any man
might be proud.