DANIELS, Moses, M.D.

DANIELS, NELLY, BULLARD, MARVIN, AWBREY

Posted By: Sharon R Becker (email)
Date: 1/18/2014 at 09:49:07

Biography ~ Moses Daniels, M.D.

"Biographical and Historical Record of
Ringgold and Decatur Counties, Iowa"
(Lewis Publishing Company (1887)), pp. 577-78:

MOSES DANIELS, M.D., is a native of Jackson County, Ohio, born January 12, 1834, the eldest son of RICHARD and MARY (NELLY) DANIELS. RICHARD DANIELS was a native of Virginia. He removed to Jackson County, Ohio, in 1817, being among the first settlers of that county. When Moses was fourteen his parents removed from Jackson County to Knox County, Illinois. They reared a family of eight children – MOSES, JAMES, ALEXADER, RICHARD, GEORGE, WILLIAM, NANCY JANE and MARTHA. MOSES DANIELS was reared to agricultural pursuits, his father being a farmer by occupation, and received his education in this native county, and in Knox County Illinois, he having lived in the latter county seven years. He was married July 11, 1853, to Miss CLARISSA BULLARD, a native of Canada West, who came with her parents, REUBEN and CAROLINE MINERVA (MARVIN) BULLARD, to the United States when thirteen years old, and lived in the State of Illinois till her marriage. In 1857 Dr. DANIELS, with his wife and one child, went to Davis County, Missouri. During the late war he enlisted in the First Missouri Engineers, the date of his enlistment being September 21, 1862. He was honorably discharged at St. Louis, Missouri, March 3, 1865, when he returned to his home in Davis County, reaming there till 1872. He then came to Decatur County, Iowa, and in the fall of 1873 he located at Terre Haute. Dr. Daniels has practiced medicine for sixteen years, in which profession he met with good success, until, on account of sickness and partial blindness, he was obliged to retire from active practice. The doctor has, by his upright and honorable dealings, secured the confidence and respect of all who know him, and is numbered among the best citizens of Burrell Township, where he has so long resided, in worthy member of the Protestant Methodist church. He is a member of the Odd Fellows order, belonging to Decatur Lodge, No. 102. To Dr. and Mrs. DANIELS have been born ten children of whom six are living – RICHARD, THOMAS, CAROLIN MINERVA (a wife of E. R. AWBREY, of Davis City), PHILIP SHERIDAN, GEORGE W. and IRA SHERMAN. REUBAN died, aged twenty-two years; CLARA L., aged ten months, and MARY ALICE and CLARISSA died in early infancy.

Transcribed by Sara LeFleur, Decatur County Historial Society Musuem, January of 2014