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JOHN MCDANIELS

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John McDaniels was born in Oxford county, Maine, August 8, 1817. His father was of Scotch descent, and his mother of English. He was reared upon a farm, and in 1851 removed to Pennsylvania, where he was engaged in the West India lumber business until 1869, when he came to Cass county, settling in Pymosa township, where he engaged in farming until 1882, when he removed to Atlantic, where he has been engaged in the banking business. He was married to Julia A. Hamblin, who was born in Maine, by whom he has had five children, three of whom are living - Vilona, living in Warren county; Ellowene; Mary, the wife of H. M. Boorman, and Clinton, cashier of the Atlantic National bank. Mr. McDaniels has been successful in business, and by his own exertions has acquired considerable property.


Contributed by Lisa Varnes-Rex from "History of Cass County, Iowa. Together With Sketches of its Towns, Villages and Townships, Educational, Civil, Military and Political History: Portraits of Prominent Persons, and Biographies of Old Settlers and Representative Citizens." Springfield, Ill.: Continental Historical Company, 1884, pg. 869.

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