Sacramento
County
Biographies
ELISHA
DALY
Elisha Daly, an
agriculturist of Center Township, was born November 23,
1823, in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, son of John R. and Hannah (Doyle) Daly,
the father also a native of that State, and the mother of Delaware; both lived and died in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania’s capital, and both at the age of about
thirty-two years. There were five
children in the family: John R., Elisha, Mary S., Elizabeth, and William, who died in Placerville.
Mr. Daly, whose name heads this sketch, is a carpenter by trade. He worked in a woolen factory when a
boy. In 1844 he went to Rock Island, Illinois, and worked at his trade there ten
years, in company with his brother John R.
In 1854 he came to this State, being four months on the way and stopping
first at Placerville.
He spent six months on Schofield’s ranch on Dry Creek; then he purchased
property on Thirteenth and K street, Sacramento, and resided there until 1859, teaming; then
he moved up on his present property in Center Township, fourteen miles northeast of Sacramento and eight miles from Folsom. There are 472 acres in the ranch, which is in
the best farming district in the township.
He has been justice of the peace in this township. He is a member of Roseville Grange, No. 161,
and politically is a Republican. In 1853
he married Miss Eliza Ramsey, of Davenport, Iowa, and a native of Ireland, and
they have thirteen children, viz.: Elisha R., Jane
E., wife of Charles W. Summers, of Sacramento; Hannah, wife of Jonathan
Churchman, of Sacramento; Louis S., Josephine E., Margaret P., wife of Charles
Johnston; George W.; Mary R., a school teacher; Eugene M., Emma H., John S., Arabella C. and Minerva C. George and Louis are proprietors
of a general store in Antelope, where they have also the postoffice,
telegraph office, and the express business of the Wells-Fargo Company. Mr. Daly, who is quite feeble, still manages
his own affairs. Mrs. Daly’s father
still lives in Rock
Island,
at the age of ninety years. She visited
her Eastern home in June, 1885, but says she is content to remain in California the rest of her life. Captain J. Daly, grandfather of Elisha, was a native of Ireland, a sea captain, and died at New Orleans.
He was owner of sea vessels in 1812, during the war with Great Britian.
Transcribed by Karen Pratt.
Davis, Hon. Win. J., An
Illustrated History of Sacramento County,
California. Page 511.
Lewis Publishing Company. 1890.
©
2005 Karen Pratt.