Sacramento County
Biographies
HARVEY S. DANIELS
HARVERY S. DANIELS--An up-to-date, thoroughly progressive rancher and a public official whose success must be attributed to a combination of favoring circumstances and conditions, commanded by his own industry and optimism, is Harvey S. Daniels, well-known in Galt, operating as he does a couple of miles to the north of that fast-growing town, at the Twin City Colony corners. He is a native son, and was born near Elliott, in San Joaquin County, on July 24, 1870, the son of Robert Marion and Mary (Peck) Daniels. His father came to California from Illinois in 1859, a native of the Prairie State; but Mrs. Daniels hailed from Texas. They reached the Golden State independently, the Pecks having come out in the sixties, and they were married in California. Mr. Daniels was a farmer. He became the father of two boys, our subject's brother being named Henry, who died aged four. Mrs. Daniels died in San Joaquin County, while the family were still residing there, in October, 1888, aged forty-seven years. Mr. Daniels married a second time, in 1892, choosing for his wife, Miss Mina Noble, a native of Ireland, by whom he had six children; Ethel, of Modesto; James Budd, of Galt; Effie, who is Mrs. Ross Allen, of Lockeford; Mina, now Mrs. T. Ward, of Elliott; Robert M., of Acampo; and Elsie. Mr. Daniels passed away on August 5, 1914, at the age of sixty-four, in Arno, Sacramento County.
Harvey Daniels attended the Telegraph district school and at the age of twenty started to lease land. His father had a half-section of land in San Joaquin County, and he sold this and removed to Arno, where he ran a threshing machine, on which Harvey began working when eight years old; and he carried on the business himself after he was fifteen. Harvey Daniels leased 1,200 acres of the McCauley ranch for three years, and then he farmed the Lauren ranch of 240 acres near Arno, for nineteen years. He then purchased twenty acres in the Twin City Colony devoted to a vineyard, and in 1920 he moved onto it. With the exception of caring for his twenty acres, Mr. Daniels has quit ranching and he has taken charge of the road construction in a part of the fifth district of Sacramento County. Unmarried, Mr. Daniels lives with his stepmother and sister Elsie, on the Twin City ranch, where those favored are delighted to enjoy their home comforts and genuine California hospitality.
A wide-awake, fearless deputy sheriff for the past fourteen years, Mr. Daniels is always ready to do his duty in the maintenance of law and order. He is a Democrat, when matters of national political import are in the balance, but a first-class booster of the good old non-partisan sort when local issues are at stake.
Transcribed by: Jeanne Sturgis Taylor.
Source: Reed, G.
Walter, History of Sacramento County,
California With Biographical Sketches, Page 571. Historic Record Company, Los Angeles, CA.
1923.
© 2007 Jeanne Taylor.