Biography of Daniel T. McNabb, page 1003.  History of De Kalb County, 
Indiana.  Inter-State Publishing Company, Chicago, 1885.

Daniel T. McNabb, proprietor of the Wabash House, Butler, Ind., was born in 
Center County, Pa., April 28, 1834, a son of Robert and Prudence (Parsons) 
McNabb.  He was reared on a farm, receiving a good education in the common 
schools.  When seventeen yeas of age, in 1851, he went with his parents to 
Lee County, Ill., and from there in 1855 to Ashland County, Ohio.  In 1859 
he came to De Kalb County, Ind., and settled in Stafford Township, where he 
engaged in farming till 1862, when he enlisted in Company H, Eighty-eighth 
Indiana Infantry.  He participated in the battles of Stone River, Perryville, 
and several others and in the latter part of 1863, at Stone River, he was 
taken sick, and February,1864, was discharged on account of disability, and 
has never fully recovered.  He now draws a pension on account of injuries 
received in the service.  He remained on the farm about twelve years after 
his return home, and then moved to Butler, where he teamed  till October, 
1882, when he bought the Wabash Hotel.  This house contains twenty-one 
rooms and is kept in first-class order.  They set a good table, having 
everything the market affords; terms, $1 a day or $4 a week.  Mr. McNabb 
was married June 5, 1855, to Sarah A., daughter of Jacob Hart.  They have 
had five children; but four are living---Margaret E., Alice, Harriet and 
Augusta.  John W. died in 1882, aged twenty-one years.  Mr. McNabb is a 
member of the Grand Army of the Republic.  In political views he is a 
Republican.

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Auburn, Indiana
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