Harrison County Iowa Genealogy

HISTORY OF HARRISON COUNTY, IOWA, 1891
BIOGRAPHIES
Page 869
DANIEL ROACH

Daniel ROACH, (retired), a resident of Missouri Valley, forms the subject of this notice. He was born in Albany County, N.Y., May 15, 1822, and is the son of Jeremiah ROACH, who was a native of the Empire State. His wife was Mary (BARNEY) ROACH, who was also a native of New York. The father followed farming and lumbering for a livelihood. His wife, the mother of our subject, died when Daniel was but a small boy. His early education was received in his native county, after which he followed farm life in New York State, until 1850, at which time he moved to Loudoun County, Va., and was located twelve miles west of Fairfax Court House. In 1856 he came to Marshall County, Iowa, where he farmed ten years five miles east of Marshalltown, and ran a meat-market three years in that city. The next two years he spent in Tama City and then came to Missouri Valley, where he operated the American House at the corner of Erie and Sixth Streets, now known as the Royer House. He also ran another hotel in the place, making ten years of hotel life in all. Our subject now owns and rents five residences in Missouri Valley.

Mr. ROACH was united in marriage March 13, 1845, to Miss Ann Gage, of Knox Albany County, N.Y., the daughter of Joseph and M. Phebe (WATERMAN) GAGE, and a niece of the Rev. Wesson M. GAGE, who performed their marriage ceremony. Daniel ROACH and wife are the parents of the following children: Phebe E., born January 25, 1848, and died August 24, 1854, in Virginia; Millard Fillmore, born October 5, 1848, now living at San Bernardino, Cal., in the employ of a railway; he married Miss Julia FISHER, in California in 1891; Mary Ann, born September 24, 1851, the wife of James W. WARREN, of Storm Lake, Iowa; they are the parents of two children, Mr. Warren is Auditor of Buena Vista County; Martha Rosette, born December 25, 1858, and now the wife of George H. RANSOM, an agricultural-implement dealer and Postmaster at Bancroft, Neb. .

Mr. ROACH’s father died in Tama City, Iowa. He was a native of New York State. The mother was a native of Pennsylvania, and died in Albany County, N.Y. Politically, our subject formerly was identified with the Republican party, but for the past five or six years has voted with the Democrats.

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