BIO: Daniel MILSOM, Clearfield County, PA Contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by Judy Banja & Sally Copyright 2005. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/pa/clearfield/ NOTE: Use this web address to access other bios: http://www.usgwarchives.net/pa/clearfield/1picts/swoope/swoope.htm _____________________________________________________________ From Twentieth Century History of Clearfield County, Pennsylvania, and Representative Citizens, by Roland D. Swoope, Jr., Chicago: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Company, 1911, page 930. _____________________________________________________________ DANIEL MILSOM,* a highly respected citizen of Allport, Pa., who has been foreman of Lane No. 5, of the Todd Brothers Coal Company, for the past two years, was born in Brookfield, Trumbull County, Ohio, May 20, 1872, and is a son of John and Elizabeth (Pritchard) Milsom. John Milsom was born in 1842 in Bristol, England, and when seven years of age started to work in the mines there. In 1865 he came to America, landing here the day of President Lincoln's assassination, and he at once went to Brookfield, Ohio, where he secured work in the mines. After ten or twelve years there he went to Mercer County, Pa., as a miner, and in April, 1887, came to Allport, Pa. He is now mine foreman for the Berwin White Coal Company, at Smoke Run, Clearfield County, with which concern he has been connected for fourteen years. Mrs. Milsom, who was born in Scotland in 1849, preceded her husband to this country. They had a family of eleven children, as follows: W. J., a mine foreman of Madera; Alice, who is the wife of Joseph Napper of Philipsburg; Charles, who is a mine foreman of Osceola; John, who holds a like position in the Pittsburg district; Daniel; Elizabeth, who is the wife of Charles Diehl of Philipsburg; Maggie, who married Thomas Gatehouse of Gates, Pa.; Phoebe, who married Adolphus Bowser, a mine foreman of Smoke Run; Annie, who is the wife of William Johns of Smoke Run; Sarah Jane, who married Charles Smith, an electrician for the Berwin White Coal Company at Janesville; and Eddie, who is a mine foreman near Pittsburg. Daniel Milsom attended the public schools of Mercer County, and when between twelve and thirteen years of age left school to work in the mine at Hazzard and continued there until coming to Allport, working in both the Allport and Rutherford mines. He was employed for four or five years as a blacksmith in the mines, and for the past eight years has been a foreman. In addition to his comfortable home, Mr. Milsom is the owner of valuable real estate in Allport, and he is considered one of the good, public-spirited men of the town. On December 22, 1890, Mr. Milsom was united in marriage with Miss Jessie Wilson, whose parents came from Scotland and settled in Tioga County, Pa., later moving to Clearfield County. Seven children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Milsom, namely: John W., who is deceased; and Nellie, Elizabeth, Jean, Alice, Margaret and Adam. Mr. Milsom is a member of Winburne Lodge No. 931, I. O. O. F., and Clearfield Lodge No. 540, B. P. O. E., also being connected with Moshannon Lodge, F. & A. M., of Philipsburg. He is a Methodist in his religious views and a stanch Republican in politics.