Bio: McDonald, Daniel (1881) 
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Surnames: McDonald, Merriman, Willard, Simple, Whirry, Buchanan

----Source: The History of Northern Wisconsin (Marathon County, Wis.) 1881, page 564

DANIEL MCDONALD, of the firm of McDonald Bros., owners of saw-mill, Wausau, was born in Nova Scotia, March 22, 1839, of Scottish parents. He located, with his brother, at Fond du Lac in 1863. He began working by the day in a shingle mill, owned by A. C. Merriman. He hired for $1 per day, but, on settling, his employer paid him $1.25 for his energy and attention to business. He was then given charge of a gang of men who were logging, and in the Spring took charge of the log drive. He then went into the shingle mill and worked for $50 per month and board, and remained during the Summer, and from there he went to the Bay Shore at Dykesville in the employ of Messrs. Spear & Hunter, and remained a short time, when their mill burned and he lost all he had previously earned. He then began logging in the Bay Settlement at New Franklin, where he remained one year. Then he again went to logging for T. R. Willard of Green Bay, where he remained one season; afterward, went into the same business for himself, living in that vicinity until 1868. In the meantime, his brother Finley engaged in the sash and door business, in which they were both interested. From there, he, with his brother, went to logging on the Wolf River and remained until 1875. Then they went in company with Mr. Simple of Medford, on the Wisconsin Central Railroad, where they erected a sawmill and began business; but they soon sold their interest to Mr. Simple. They then dealt in pine lands, in which they were very successful. Afterward they engaged in logging on the Wisconsin River, during the Winter of 1878-79, and have followed it since during the logging seasons. He was married, in Appleton, August, 1870, to Mary E. Whirry, who was born in Randolph in 1847. They have one daughter, Marian. Mrs. McDonald’s mother was a sister of Hon. James Buchanan, former President of the United States.