Biography of Thomas D. Daily, pages 727 / 728.  History of De Kalb County, 
Indiana.  Inter-State Publishing Company, Chicago, 1885.

Thomas D. Daily was born in Ontario County, N.Y., Oct. 25, 1818, a son of 
William and Elizabeth (Dillingham) Daily, the former a native of Vermont and 
of Irish descent, and the latter a native of Massachusetts and of Welsh 
origin.  In the fall of 1827, our subject with his father’s family removed 
to Oakland County, Mich., where he was reared on a frontier farm receiving a 
limited education in the early schools of that county.  When he was sixteen 
years old he purchased his time of his father and began working for himself.  
In the spring of 1841 he came to De Kalb County, Ind., and purchased eighty 
acres of wild land, which his brother had previously entered.  He cleared 
ten acres during the summer, and then returned to his home in Michigan, 
where, Oct. 25, 1825, he was married to Miss Susan Knapp, a daughter of 
Henry and Esther (Moses) Knapp.  She was born in Livingston County, N.Y., 
and came with her parents to Michigan when ten years of age. After his 
marriage our subject removed to his new home in De Kalb County, where they 
passed through all the hardships and privations of a pioneer life, but by 
close attention to his pursuits, and through their good management he has 
accumulated a good property.  He has one son---William H., who married 
Mary L. McDonald, and now resides on the old homestead.  In 1882 Mr. Daily 
and his wife removed to the village of Corunna, where they are enjoying the 
accumulation of many years of hard toil. Politically Mr. Daily is a 
Republican.

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Arlene Goodwin
Auburn, Indiana
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