Columbia County PA Archives Biographies.....McHENRY, Daniel unknown - living in 1899
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  DANIEL McHENRY, for many years a prominent lumberman of Columbia and adjoining
  counties, is now living in his fine old residence at Stillwater, Fishing Creek
  township, Columbia County, Pa., which was the first property his grandfather
  acquired after coming to this country, and he is extensively engaged in
  agricultural pursuits, being a large land owner in that section. He is a son of
  Moses and Martha (Edgar) McHenry, and was born at Stillwater, May 15, 1827.
  
    Daniel McHenry, the grandfather of our subject, was born in the North of
  Ireland and was of Scotch-Irish, parentage. Coming to America prior to the
  struggle for independence, he enlisted in the Colonial Army and fought valiantly
  for his adopted country. He settled in Columbia County, Pa., where he bought a
  tract of land where the village of Stillwater is now located and there built a
  log house, the first building erected in the county, north of Orangeville. Soon
  after his wife followed him to their new home where their nearest neighbor was
  at Orangeville, six miles distant, and their nearest market, Northumberland,
  thirty-four miles distant. There they lived and labored in happiness, and,
  dying, their property descended to their children, most of it now being owned by
  our subject. Daniel joined in wedlock with Mary Stevens, a sister of Col.
  William Stevens, a distinguished officer of the War of 1812, and a well-known
  horseman of Steuben County, N. Y., and their children were: Benjamin, who owned
  a part of the old homestead, followed farming and lumbering and died of the
  yellow fever while going down the Susquehanna River with a raft; Daniel, a
  farmer and lumberman on the old home estate, Who was widely known as a man of
  upright character and as a devout Christian; John, the grandfather of John G.
  McHenry, whose sketch appears elsewhere; Uriah, who was a shoemaker by trade;
  Moses, the father of our subject; Elias, a farmer and lumberman, who was also a
  colonel in the state militia and a very active man; Mrs. Martha Colley; and Mrs.
  Susan Edgar. Daniel McHenry lies buried at St. Gabriel's Church in Sugarloaf
  township, and his wife in the Stillwater cemetery.
  
    Moses McHenry, the father of our subject, was born on the old homestead in
  1791, and he was a farmer and lumber dealer. He owned about 300 acres of the
  original family estate and an additional tract of 200 acres which he purchased.
  He rafted logs down Fishing Creek to the Susquehanna, thence down to tidewater,
  and did a very large business for many years. He was one of the greatest hunters
  of his time and to him hunting was not only a pleasant pastime but a very
  profitable one. His brother John was likewise fond of the sport and in the
  proper season they took jaunts up into the mountains, always returning with many
  deer, numbering close to one hundred, which they disposed of at the Philadelphia
  markets. Moses was a strong Democrat in his political affiliations, and was also
  a captain in the state militia. He was a man of marked religious character and
  was the founder of the Christian Church at Stillwater, where he was the first
  man baptized by immersion. He passed to his final rest in 1855. He married
  Martha Edgar, a daughter of James Edgar, a record of whose life will be found in
  the biography of T. H. Edgar, Esq., and they became the parents of six sons and
  five daughters: Cynthia, deceased, who was the wife of Samuel McHenry of Benton
  township; Isabella, deceased, wife of Tunis Karns; Elias, deceased, who was at
  one time a farmer, but during the latter years of his life was engaged in the
  insurance business; Mary, widow of Samuel Appleman of Stillwater; James,
  deceased, a merchant of Cambra, Luzerne County, who twice represented that
  county in the State Legislature; John J., a merchant of Benton, Pa.; Ellen,
  deceased, who was the wife of the late John Evans of Madison, Lackawanna County;
  Daniel, the subject of this personal history; Cyrus B., deceased, a farmer who
  resided near Stillwater, and was at his death, in 1890, associate judge of
  Columbia County; Martha, widow of Hiram McHenry, a farmer of Fishing Creek
  township; and Silas, deceased, who was a farmer on the old homestead.
  
    Daniel McHenry was brought up on his father's farm and received his education
  in the old "subscription" schools. As a youth he was ambitious and energetic and
  before he attained his majority he embarked in the mercantile business as a
  partner with his brother James, and they continued as partners for five years,
  when our subject became sole proprietor. His efforts in this direction met with
  the best of success and he conducted the store for ten years, when he disposed
  of it to his nephew, Moses McHenry, who now runs it. In the meantime Mr. McHenry
  had become much interested in the lumber business in Columbia and neighboring
  counties, and upon retiring from the mercantile business he devoted his
  attention mainly to the lumber business. His operations were very extensive and
  he continued with good results until 1890, when he retired in favor of his son,
  O. D. McHenry, who had been assisting him for several years. Being the owner of
  large interests in land, he has since given his attention to their cultivation
  and he is now an extensive agriculturist. Besides owning a part of the old home
  property, in 1856 he purchased a tract of fifty-two acres of his uncle, Elias
  McHenry, and also a tract of 200 acres of fine bottomland. He owns three good
  building sites in Stillwater and in 1878 he built upon the land, which descended
  from his grandfather, a large and commodious residence in which he has since
  resided. Our subject is a man of high principles and sterling integrity and
  stands high among the leading citizens of the county.
  
    On November 17, 1862, Mr. McHenry was joined in the holy bonds of matrimony to
  Mary McHenry, a daughter of the late J. D. McHenry, a farmer of Fishing Creek
  township, who was a son of Benjamin McHenry, and a grandson of the founder of
  the family in this country. This union was blessed by two children: Orvis Dell,
  a lumber dealer who resides at home; and May. Politically our subject is an
  unswerving Democrat and in 1860 was elected county treasurer. He is a consistent
  member of the Christian Church, of which he is an elder.
  
  
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  Book of Biographies of the Seventeenth Congressional District
  Published by 
  Biographical Publishing Company of Chicago, Ill. and Buffalo, NY (1899)
  
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