Lenoir County, NC, Biography for JAMES A. McDANIEL ========================================================= USGENWEB NOTICE: In keeping with our policy of providing free information on the Internet, data may be used by non- commercial entities, as long as this message remains on all copied material. These electronic pages may NOT be repro- duced in any format for profit or for presentation by other persons or organizations.   Persons or organizations desiring to use this material for purposes other than stated above must obtain the written consent of the file contributor. The submitter has given permission to the USGenWeb Archives to store the file permanently for free access.   Copyright © 1999 by Carol Pridgen Martoccia. This copy contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives. by Carol Pridgen Martoccia psmartoc@eastnet.ecu.edu ========================================================= Copy found at Heritage Place, Lenoir County Community College, Kinston, North Carolina - Vertical File Bell 02433-5. We thank the staff at LCC for their permission to copy selected documents from their files to place on the internet. It is requested that researchers give appropriate credit when using these documents. Permission to combine said documents together in printed form is not given. This particular document is a microfilmed newspaper--The Kinston Free Press..no date given, but judging from the article it was 1899 . James A. McDaniel His Efforts have built up "Trianon," a pleasant portion of Kinston. A Progressive Citizen James A. McDaniel is one of the most honorable, useful and capable young men who have been reared in Kinston in a generation. He is a large real estate owner and farmer, and is a young man of studious habits and original ideas. He is a student of men and affairs as well as of books. In 1898 Mr. McDaniel bought the land, 350 acres, adjoining the town of Kinston east of the Atlantic Coast Line, and built far out in the field a beautiful residence. It was considered that the young man had put his money to a foolish use. But he had thought before he leaped. He began cultivating and improving a portion of it and laid the balance off into lots and extended the streets from the town through the farm, set out trees and began to offer all kinds of inducements to parties wishing to build. That beautiful residence, once far out in the old field, for awhile looked lonely but now it has drawn the town right up to it and around it. A score of beautiful residences and a hundred or more cottages have been built in Trianon since 1893. Mr. McDaniel was born in Jones County, March 28, 1867. His father was Duff G. McDaniel and his mother was Susan Dillahunt before her marriage. The father died when Mr. McDaniel was quite a boy and years after his mother wedded the late Hon. R.W. King. She died in the summer of 1893. Mr. McDaniel was married on June 8, 1892, to Miss Laura Warters. He was educated in Kinston under Dr. R. H. Lewis, and at Wake Forest College in 1887- 89. In 1890 he attended Eastman Business College at Poughkeepsie, NY. He merchandised for a while on his return home, but sold out and devoted himself to faming operation on his plantation on Falling Creek, and near Kinston. He had 50 acres in tobacco this year. He has built a new town at the age of 32. Trianon, sometimes called East Kinston, is a growing and pleasant part of Kinston. Many of the most desirable lots are still for sale, and many acres are not yet laid off. It is high and dry and as well drained as any portion of the town. Mr. McDaniel is a young man of fine promise. He is a clever and agreeable gentleman, and is a firm believer in cooperative industries to develop the manufacturing interests of our town, a support of good schools, good streets and better drainage. He believes there is a bright future for Kinston. He is an earnest and faithful member of the Baptist Church and is a young man of fine christian character.