1891 HISTORY OF CLARK & JACKSON CO., WI; pg. 373-374

JOHN M. DAILEY, of section 14, Colby Township, was born in Oneida County, New York, October 29, 1818, the son of Samuel (deceased) and Elizabeth (Meggs) Dailey the former was a native of Connecticut, and the latter of Mohawk Valley, New York. The parents had nine children, three of whom survive: Emily, John and Lebbeus. John was reared to farm life and educated in the public schools of his native county.

He came to Wisconsin in 1854, and lived one year in Oshkosh, engaged in the saw-mills. In 1855 he went to Fond du Lac and worked at the same occupation until 1862, when he enlisted in the late war, in Company A, Twenty-first Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry, and served nearly three years. He participated in the battles of Perryville, Stone River, Chickamauga, siege of Atlanta, Bentonville, and was also with Sherman to the sea. After the war Mr. Dailey returned to Fond du Lac, and worked in the machine shops until 1873, when he came to this county and settled on his present farm. The place was then covered with timber, with no roads, and he was obliged to carry everything on his back from Colby. There was not a house or clearing from the latter place to Steven's Point. He homesteaded 160acres, thirty of which he cleared, but afterward sold all but two acres, seventeen of the latter being cleared.

Mr. Dailey was married May 23, 1843, to Maria Palmer, and they had four children, two of whom survive George and Mary. The mother died in 1866, and Mr. Dailey was again married, August 16, 1868, to Mrs. Naomi Thresher, daughter of Abel Bradway, deceased. Previous to this union she had been twice married, first to Leander Z. Chappin, by whom she had seven children, six now living, viz: Leander, David, William, Lovisa, Austin and Caroline. She was married a second time, to Joseph Thresher, by whom she had six children: Mary, Henry, Alvira, Albert, James and Charles. Mr. Dailey has been a member of the Town Board two terms, and chairman of the same one term. Socially he is a member of the G. A. R., and politically a Republican.