Biography of Arthur G. Daniels, pages 806/807/808.  History of DeKalb 
County, Indiana; B. F. Bowen & Company, Inc., Indianapolis, 1914.



Arthur G. Daniels



	The subject of this review is one of the sturdy spirits who has 
contributed largely to the material welfare of the community where he 
resides, being a farmer and stock raiser, and as a citizen is public 
spirited and progressive in all that the terms imply. For a number of 
years Mr. Daniels has been actively identified with the agricultural 
interests of DeKalb county, and he is the owner of a very desirable 
landed estate in Smithfield township.

	Arthur G. Daniels was born on the old Daniels farm in section 26, 
Smithfield township, DeKalb county, Indiana, on August 13, 1854, and is 
the son of Reuben G. and Susanne (Hallabaugh) Daniels.  Mr. Daniels was 
reared under the parental roof and secured his education in the 
district schools of the community, his vacation periods being employed 
in assisting his father in his farm work.  After his marriage in 1875 
Mr. Daniels farmed the home place on shares with his father, he and his 
wife residing in the old home, as his mother had died several years 
prior.  He continued farming on shares until May 19, 1887, when he 

bought the home farm of one hundred and sixty acres from his father and 
gave untiring devotion to its cultivation and improvement.  A few years 
later he bought thirty-eight acres adjoining his farm on the south and 
is thus now the owner of about two hundred acres of a fine farming land 
as can be found in DeKalb county.   He is not satisfied with mediocre 
accomplishments in any line and has not only maintained the productive 
capacity of his farm up to the highest standard, but has also given 
some attention to the aesthetic side of life, maintaining the home in 
such a way as to make it attractive to the passer-by and also to the 
family.  The large and well arranged house is set amidst a cluster of 
fine shade trees, while the lawn is well kept and ornamented with 
shrubbery, the interior of the house being characterized by tasteful 
furnishings and an air of comfort which appeals to the caller.  Mr. and 
Mrs. Daniels move in the best social circles of the community and in 
their own home the spirit of old-time hospitality is ever in evidence.

On September 25, 1879, Arthur G. Daniels was married to Mary Lucinda 
Frazer, who was born in Williams county, Ohio, and is the daughter of 
Jacob Israel and Lydia (Spangler) Frazer, who are mentioned on other 
pages in this work.  To Mr. and Mrs. Daniels have been born three 
children, namely: Pearl is the wife of Walter E. Fretz, a furniture 
dealer and undertaker in Sidney, Ohio, and they have a son Robert; 
Mabel is the wife of LaRoy Waterman, of Hudson, Indiana, where he is 
cashier of the Hudson Bank, and they are the parents of two sons, Ross 
and Neal; Hazel, who is at home with her parents, is attending high 
school at Waterloo and will graduate in the spring of 1914.

	In the civic life of his community Mr. Daniels has long been an 
important and influential factor, being an ardent advocate of 
temperance principles and of public righteousness, in the interest of 
which he has long taken an active part.  He and his wife are members of 
the Barker Methodist Episcopal church, in the prosperity of which they 
are interested and to which they contribute of their means.  
Fraternally, Mr. Daniels is a member of the Lodge No. 205, Knights of 
Pythias, at Waterloo, in the work of which he is interested.  He is 
well educated, symmetrically developed man and keeps abreast of the 
times in his knowledge of current thought, and because of his earnest 
life, entitled to representation in a work of the character of the one 
in hand.



Submitted by:

Arlene Goodwin

Auburn, Indiana

Agoodwin@ctlnet.com