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HENRY DANIELS
Henry
Daniels is filling the position of coroner of Nevada County and is numbered
among the prominent businessmen of Grass Valley, where he is successfully
engaged in the furniture trade. He is
one of the worthy citizens that the little Welsh nation has furnished to
America and in his life he displays the strong purpose, fidelity and
reliability so characteristic of his race.
Mr. Daniels was born in Wales,
October 24, 1856, and is a son of Henry and Mary (Johnson) Daniels, who are
still living in the old world. The
father is a farmer by occupation and our subject was reared in that
pursuit. At the age of twenty-two he
bade adieu to home and friends and crossed the ocean to the new world, taking
up his abode in California. For a short
time he engaged in farming near Marysville and thence came to Grass Valley,
where he accepted a clerical position.
Later he purchased the express and jobbing business, which he conducted
for nine years, meeting with very creditable success in the undertaking. On the expiration of that period he
established his furniture store on Mill Street, where he carries a large and well
selected line of all the latest improved styles of furniture. He is also conducting an undertaking and
embalming business and in both departments receives a liberal patronage.
In 1888 Mr. Daniels was elected
coroner for a term of four years, and for the second time is now filling that
position, proving a competent official.
He votes with the Republican Party and is staunch and earnest in his advocacy
of its principles. For several years he
has served as a member of the fire department of Grass Valley and does all in
his power to promote its welfare and upbuilding. In fraternal orders he has a wide
acquaintance, being identified with the Knights of Honor; Chosen Friends;
Knights of Pythias; Rathbone Sisters; the Independent Order of Odd Fellows; the
Masonic fraternity, in which he has taken the degrees of the chapter and
Eastern Star; the Improved Order of Red Men; the Ancient Order of United
Workmen; and the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. His home relations are pleasant, for he was
happily married on the 3rd of September, 1884, to Miss Josephine
Gill, a native daughter of California, the father, Thomas Gill, being among the
pioneers of the state in 1852. Mr. and
Mrs. Daniels now have two interesting children, Ernest and Florence, and they
have also lost two, Marguerite and Roy.
Mr. Daniels has lived an honorable and upright life, has won prosperity
through determined purposed and indefatigable effort, and at all times has
enjoyed the esteem of his fellow men by reason of those sterling qualities of
manhood which in every land and every clime awakens admiration and regard.
Transcribed by
Gerald Iaquinta.
Source:
“A Volume of Memoirs and Genealogy of Representative Citizens of Northern
California”, Pages 458 -459. Chicago Standard Genealogical Publishing Co. 1901.
© 2010
Gerald Iaquinta.
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