John C. Daly Biography


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	representative citizens of South Dakota..." Published by G. A. Ogle & 
	Co., Chicago, 1899. Pages 1044-1047

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JOHN C. DALY, one of the pioneer settlers of Brown county, is engaged 
in diversified farming in Columbia township, on section 7, township 
125, range 61. He is the owner of four hundred and eighty acres of land 
and is among the substantial men of his calling. 

Mr. Daly was born in Clark county, Missouri, on December 16, 1858, and 
was the sixth of a family of nine children born to John and Elizabeth 
(Beahan) Daly. The father was a native of Ireland and the mother was 
born in America and was of Irish extraction. The first home our subject 
distinctly remembers was in Genesee county, Michigan. He worked on his 
father's farm until he was eighteen years of age and then engaged in a 
produce store, and in April, 1880, he and six others who had gone to 
Watertown, South Dakota, together purchased a team and went to Brown 
county in search of land. Our subject selected the farm which he now 
owns and the others settled near by. All of the party then drove 
through to Jamestown to make filing on the land, and then one of the 
party was sent to Fargo, the nearest land office, and all the papers 
bear date of April 10. The party of seven consisted of the following 
gentlemen, who were young, unmarried men: J. D. Lavin, now in Aberdeen; 
Henry Lavin, John Lambert, Philip Lynch, John W. Meenan, George B. Daly 
and John C. Daly, our subject. They each built a sod shanty and settled 
down to make social calls. Poles were hauled from the James river for 
roofing and all the lumber for doors was hauled from Watertown. Our 
subject had about two hundred dollars with him, and after the first 
harvest he and his brother went to the Red river valley, and in the 
winter went to Michigan, where he passed the season, and in the spring 
returned with an ox team. The railroad took him as far west as New Ulm, 
Minnesota, and he drove overland with a party of five. This trip of 
about three hundred miles across the country with a sleigh and ox team 
during the month of March, and occupying about four or five weeks, will 
long be remembered. He now has a farm of four hundred and eighty acres, 
and usually crops four to five hundred acres and winters from thirty to 
fifty head of stock. He has a ten acre grove of box-elder trees on his 
farm, which adds to the beauty of the place. His residence, 20 x 28 
feet, with a wing, 16 x 22 feet, is a substantial structure and 
furnishes a pleasant rural home. 

Our subject was married in 1884 to Miss Minnie Sullivan, a native of 
Michigan. Five children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Daly, as 
follows: Walter, Charles, Florence, Marian and Dorothea. Mr. Daly is a 
member of the Catholic church and the Ancient Order of United Workmen. 
He has served in various official positions, and was township assessor 
for nine years, and has served as school treasurer since the 
organization of the township. He is politically a Republican, and has 
frequently been a delegate to county and state conventions. He is a man 
of good education and has advanced the standard of schools in his 
township, and otherwise worked zealously for the interests of his 
community, and is a man respected by a large circle of acquaintances. A 
family group portrait of Mr. and Mrs. Daly and family is given on 
another page.