DANIEL McMASTER, Biography / Grant Township, Clare County, Michigan 
 
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Biographical History of Northern Michigan.  B.F. Bowen & Company, 1905. 
 
DANIEL McMASTER 
 
One of the representative farmers and highly esteemed citizens of Clare county 
is the subject of this review, whose well improved homestead is located in 
section 11, Grant township. 
 
Mr. McMASTER is a native of the province of Ontario, Canada, where he was 
born on the 18th of March, 1848, being the second in order of birth of the eight 
children of JOHN and FLORA (FRASER) McMASTER, who died in Canada.  
When our subject was about seventeen years of age he removed to Saginaw 
county, and there he was reared to maturity, having received a common-school 
education and having early assumed the practical responsibilities and duties of 
life.  His father enlisted in the Union army during the war of the Rebellion and 
sacrificed his life while in the service, being attacked with illness which resulted in 
his death while at the front.  DANIEL McMASTER has good cause to appreciate 
the dignity of honest toil, for he has been a hard worker from his youth up, having 
been employed in the lumber woods of the state of Michigan for the long period 
of thirty-two years, during which time he was constantly in the employ of one 
man, being entrusted with responsible duties and ever proving faithful to the trust 
reposed in him.  He continued to reside in Saginaw county until the spring of 
1880, when he came to Clare county and assumed the management of the farm 
of A.P. BREWER, in Grant township.  In the spring of 1888 he located on his 
present farm, which comprises eighty acres, of which forty-five acres are 
available for cultivation at the time of this writing.  Mr. McMASTER has erected 
excellent buildings on his place and has made other substantial improvements, 
so that it is one of the valuable farm properties of the county, while his 
management is such as to secure the maximum returns from the labors and 
capital expended.  He is essentially loyal to all the duties of citizenship and takes 
an active and intelligent interest in local affairs of a public nature, while he has 
served his township in the office of highway commissioner and has been 
treasurer of the school board of his district.  In politics he gives his support to the 
Republican party. 
 
In Flushing, Genesee county, this state, on the 17th of February, 1881, Mr. 
McMASTER was united in marriage to Miss SARAH BREWER, daughter of 
PETER and MARY (TEARNS) BREWER, who was born in Oakland county, 
Michigan.  They have no children.