Clay County, SD Biographies.....Daily, Jesse B. 1840 - 
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Author: Geo. A. Ogle & Co. (1897)

JESSE B. DAILY, an intelligent citizen and one of the leading farmers and stock
dealers of Clay county, has his headquarters in Vermillion. He was born in
Jackson county, Ind., February 24, 1840, and in 1851 accompanied his parents to
Tama county, Iowa, they being among the very earliest settlers in that section
of the Hawkeye state. There he was reared and educated, and, though
opportunities for acquiring book learning during those days were decidedly
limited, he was a close observer of everything going on about him, and the
knowledge thus gained has been of great importance to him in his battle in life.

    Mr. Daily continued to live in Tama county, assisting his father on the
farm, for eighteen years, and then settled in Monona county, of the same state,
where he purchased a farm. In the fall of 1872, five years later, he came to
Vermillion, Dak. Ter., secured a position as clerk in a store, which he held for
about twelve months, and then established himself in the mercantile business on
his own account. At the end of a year he sold out in order to engage in grain
and stock dealing, he being the consignor of the first carload of live stock
ever shipped from Vermillion, and this business he continued in exclusively for
several years. He now operates a farm of 117 acres a short distance from the
city, which he settled on in the spring of 1893. He has been closely identified
with the development and growth of the community, and for two years served as an
alderman in the council.

    Mr. Daily was united in marriage to Miss Agnes McLaury, a native of New York
state, the ceremony being performed in Belle Plaine, Benton Co., Iowa, and to
this union has been born three children, viz.: Gertie L., Carrie B., and Harry V.

    Last, but not least, in this brief life history is our subject's record as a
soldier in the late war. He enlisted in the service of the government in May,
1862, when he was enrolled as a private in company F, Twenty-eighth Iowa
regiment, infantry, and for two years he served his country faithfully and well.
He participated in the siege of Vicksburg in company with his regiment, and in
the battle of Champion Hill he also took part, besides many minor engagements
and numerous skirmishes.


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Extracted from:

MEMORIAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD
OF 
Turner, Lincoln, Union and Clay Counties,
SOUTH DAKOTA.

Containing Biographical Sketches of Hundreds of Prominent Old Settlers and
Representative Citizens, with a Review of their Life Work; their Identity with
the Growth and Development of these Counties; Reminiscences of Personal History
and Pioneer Life; and other Interesting and Valuable Matter which should be
Preserved in History.

ILLUSTRATED
CHICAGO.
GEO. A. OGLE & CO.
Publishers, Engravers and Book Manufacturers.
1897.


Biography is the only true history.—EMERSON.

A people that take no pride in the noble achievements of remote ancestors will
never achieve anything worthy to be remembered with pride by remote
generations.—MACAULAY.


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