BIOGRAPHY: Daniel S. McANULTY, Cambria County, PA 

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From Wiley, Samuel T., ed. Biographical and Portrait Cyclopedia of Cambria 
County, Pennsylvania. Philadelphia: Union Publishing Co., 1896, p. 96-7
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DANIEL S. McANULTY,  a retired business man and respected citizens of 
Barnesboro, Cambria county, Pennsylvania, is a son of Michael and Mrs. Mary 
Deane nee Simpson McAnulty, and was born in Indiana county, Pennsylvania, June 
1, 1819. His ancestors on the paternal side of the family were of the sturdy 
Scotch race, renowned for its frugality, integrity, and sterling qualities of 
heart and mind.
     His grandfather, John McAnulty, was born in Scotland, and came to this 
country the latter part of the eighteenth century, and located near 
Chambersburg, Franklin county, Pennsylvania, where he married an Irish lady, and 
then removed to Indiana county. He engaged in the hotel business, which he 
followed the remainder of his life. He was a consistent member of the 
Presbyterian church. His family consisted of three sons and two daughters: 
Patrick, who served in the War of 1812, at the close of which he settled near 
Niagara Falls; Michael, father of the subject of this memoir; and John, who died 
in Jefferson county.
     Michael McAnulty was born in Franklin county, and removed to Indiana county 
with his parents, where he received a liberal education, considering the limited 
educational facilities of those days, and as a means of gaining a livelihood 
adopted the pursuits of a farmer, while during the winter he taught in the 
subscription schools of those early days. He married Mrs. Mary Deane (nee 
Simpson), and their union was blessed in the birth of seven children. In 
religious faith he was a member of the United Presbyterian Church. He died at 
the age of seventy-three years.
     Daniel S. McAnulty was reared a farmer boy, and received his early 
education in the old subscription schools. Since he has been engaged in farming 
and lumbering, which pursuits he has followed with a marked degree of success. 
In 1856 he located on a tract of land which he owned, containing four hundred 
and twenty acres, upon which the town of Barnesboro, this county, is now 
located.
     In religious belief he is a member of the   Church of God. He has always 
taken an active interest in the progress of the church, and has served as deacon 
for twenty-five years. He is a member of the Junior Order of American Mechanics, 
and in political faith adheres to the principles of the Republican party.
     July 4, 1843, he wedded Mrs. Eliza Jane McDowell, and to this union have 
been born seven children: Michael, a sawyer, located at Barnesboro; Nancy, the 
wife of Samuel Hartzel, of Clearfield county, Pennsylvania; John, deceased; 
Mary, the wife of A. A. Grumbling, of Barnesboro; Henry McAnulty, sawyer, of 
Barnesboro; George, a farmer, in Indiana county; Sarah, the wife of Thomas 
Jones, of Barnesboro, and Frank, a merchant of Barnesboro.