OBITS: Drummond, Daniel G.; Delta, Oneida co., NY
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Roman Citizen January 9, 1885
DRUMMOND - In Delta, New York, January 2, 1885, Daniel G. Drummond. 

Daniel G. Drummond, whose illness for six weeks past has caused such widespread 
solicitude, died at his home near Delta, in the town of Lee, New York, last 
Friday afternoon. It will be remembered that he was taken suddenly ill in Rome, 
NY on the 18th of November, and for several weeks was confined to his room in 
the Mansion House, before he recovered sufficiently to be removed to his home. 
After reaching his home his disease seemed to take a more favorable turn, and 
his friends had good hope that he might recover, but these expectations proved 
to be without foundation. The morning of the day on which he died he became 
suddenly worse, and continued to sink rapidly until death came. 

Deceased lacked about ten months of having reached the allotted age of man, 
having been born October 28, 1815. He was a native of Albany, NY, and the son 
of a Methodist clergyman, but when only two years old was taken into the family 
of his grandfather, Abraham Davis, of White Plains, Westchester Co., with whom 
he continued to reside till he reached the age of 20 when he came to the town 
of Lee, which town was his home for the remainder of his life. The next year 
after coming to Lee, December 4, 1836, he was married to Miss Sarah H. Shaver, 
of Sullivan, Madison Co., who survives him. He also leaves two sons and two 
daughters, Gilbert D. and Charles Drummond, Mrs. Buskirk and Miss Minnie 
Drummond. 

Mr. Drummond had been from early youth a dealer in live stock; for twenty years 
past being engaged in buying horses and cattle in Canada and bringing them to 
Central New York for market. He was a shrewd business man, very pleasant and 
companionable, and well liked by all who formed his acquaintance. Though his 
hair and beard were snow white, he seemed to enjoy vigorous health, and his 
sudden and fatal attack is difficult to account for. In politics he was a 
zealous Democrat, but he numbered among his friends a host of Republicans who 
liked him for his sunny and genial manner. For twenty-four years he had a 
standing offer to furnish an ox for a barbecue as soon as a Democratic 
President should be elected, and as soon as it was definitely settled that 
Grover Cleveland was winner in the late struggle, he promptly furnished the 
beef. The feast came off November 20, 1884, but the generous purveyor was 
chained to the bed of sickness, and was not permitted to witness the joyous 
festival he had organized. Many friends though regretfully of this at the time, 
and the memory of their genial friend will by them be long kept green.