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Author: Bowen & Co. (1903)

JAMES H. DALY.

   One of the Daly brothers of Gillette, leading merchants and stockmen, James
H. Daly, has had an interesting and varied career in this state. He has seen the
flow and ebb of commercial tides, the rise and decay of business centers, the
sudden expansion of trade under primitive conditions and circumstances of
difficulty, and has felt the keen pangs of disappointment and adversity from
sudden and complete disaster. Yet through all he has preserved the same constant
spirit of fortitude and cheerfulness, has laughed at misfortune and challenged
Fate herself into the lists against him with a serene and lofty courage, he was
born at Walpole, Cheshire county. N. H., on March 7, 1863, the son of Michael
and Mary A. (Hyde) Daly, natives of Ireland. .The lather came to the United
States when he was fourteen years old and went to work on a farm in New
Hampshire where he remained until 1873 and then removed to Kansas, settling in
Mitchell county, he took up a homestead near Beirut and farmed it until 1899. In
that year he made Beloit his residence and is now living in that city. James H.
Daly remained with his parents on the Kansas farm until he reached his majority
and was educated in the public schools. In 1883 he engaged in farming on his own
account near his father's place and later worked in a lumber yard in Beloit,
remaining in that town and vicinity until 1887 when he came to Wyoming and
settled at Sundance. For a few months he worked on a ranch and was then
appointed jailer under Sheriff James Ryan and afterwards under John W. Rogers,
holding the office four years in succession. In the summer of 1891 his brother
John opened a general merchandising establishment at Gillette, and in December
of that year James joined him in the enterprise as a partner. Their store was
small and their stock was limited, but business was brisk and the increase was
rapid. The railroad was then building through this section and Gillette had a
population of at least 1000, all activities being on the boom. When the road
passed the town James Daly followed the construction camps with a stock of goods
in a tent and did a thriving trade in necessary commodities for six mouths or
more and then returned to Gillette where his brother was conducting the main
store. In November, 1895, their buildings and stock were completely destroyed by
fire. They immediately put up a temporary structure and continued their business
in it through the winter, beginning at once the buildings which now house their
enterprise. These were finished and ready for occupancy by the next spring and
spacious as they were and complete in equipment, they had not capacity
sufficient to meet the demands of their expanding trade, which has grown to
great proportions and is now the most extensive and carries the largest and most
complete stock within a radius of many miles. In 1898 the brothers took up land
eighteen miles northwest of Gillette and began a stock industry which has
developed into a large and exacting business. They have improved their ranch
with the necessary appurtenances. and give to its needs and its progress the
same intelligent and studious attention that characterizes them in in all their
undertakings. They have also much real estate of value in the town. Both are
members of the Catholic church.


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

CHICAGO, ILL.
A. W. BOWEN & CO.
PUBLISHERS AND ENGRAVERS
1903


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