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m. 7 Oct 1824
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"Memoranda of Ancestry" by John Lewis Dailey, Leo, Indinana, Jan 28, 1862 (see file) Grandfather on father's side born in New Jersey, his parents from Ireland. Grandmother on same side born in Pennsylvania, her parents in England. Father born in the town of Bedford, Pennsylvania from whence he emigrated to southern Ohio at an early date. Grandparents on mother's side both born in Pennsylvania. His name McCormick and hers Martin. They emigrated to Ohio, Perry County, before they were married at which place they had three children, one boy and two girls. Mother was the youngest. Continues with early life and travels of John L. Dailey.
John L. Dailey36Ohio Nellie32New York Lizzie5/12Colorado 1900 Federal Census John L. Dailey67Real estate agent John Dailey John Dailey, son of William T. Dailey, was a partner with William Beyers in founding the Rocky Mountain News in Denver in 1859. He started the paper serving as the printing foreman. Following is an excerpt from, The First Hundred Years: An informal history of Denver and The Rocky Mountain News by Robert L. Perkin, 1959. Pg. 140-2. The anchor man of the Byres and Dailey team shared Ohio birth with his partner, though they apparently had not met until both reached Omaha. John Dailey was born in Tiffin, Seneca County, on November 19, 1833, the fifth child of a pioneer who had cleared eighty acres of forest and swamp for a farm. At seventeen John became an apprentice printer at Fort Wayne, Indiana, in the office of Thomas Cook, publisher of the Laurel Wreath of Fort Wayne, a literary paper which lasted only a year. He completed his apprenticeship under John W. Dawson at the Fort Wayne Times, and then at twenty-one struck out further west. In Des Moines he helped issue the first number of the Iowa Citizen, forebear of the Des Moines Register. By 1855, he was on the fringe of civilization in Nebraska Territory, where he lost his savings in a farm and timber claim near Cuming City. His able fingers burned at speculation, he returned them to his trade.
Dailey’s activities with the News are detailed through many of these pages. In 1864, he interrupted his newspaper labors to enlist in the 3rd Colorado Cavalry and he was present at the Sand Creek Massacre. He served Bill Byers long and faithfully, and then in October 1870, sold out to him to start his own job-printing business. Retiring in 1874, Dailey dabbled in real estate, served three terms as treasurer of Arapahos County, gave a quarter century as a member of the school board, and was president in 1893 of the city’s first park board. Both he and Byers long had been interested in civic beautification. Together they planted trees along both sides of Broadway from Fifth to Jewell avenues, some of which survived until a few years ago. A brother Dailey’s, William M., also was a Colorado pioneer and an early rancher in Wyoming.
Dailey was married twice. His first wife, Melissa Rounds of Chicago, died in childbirth less than a year after he brought her to Denver as a bride in 1866. Later he married Helen Emelia Manley, a young widow who was a friend of his first wife and had taught school with her in Chicago. Nellie Dailey was diminutive: five feet, eighty pounds. She also was a very proper person, and didn’t like her given name of Helen because there was a “Hel” in it. Four children were born to the Daileys: Anne, Lissie, Grace, and John L., Jr.
John Dailey died in Denver at seventy-four on January 3, 1908, a quiet, conscientious man to the end. Dailey Park at West Ellsworth Avenue and Cherokee Street is named for him. His son and his daughter Grace still live in Denver, and the old Dailey mansion at West Fourth Avenue and Broadway stands with some time-scarred dignity in a jungle of used-car lots.”
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