My Genealogy Hound

ALMERON McDANIELS, a descendant of a good old New England family and a staunch farmer of Chautauqua county, was born July 27, 1845, in the town of Villanova, Chautauqua county, New York. His parents were Leonard and Lydia (Howe) McDaniels. The McDaniels family were natives of the State of Vermont, where the paternal grandfather of our subject lived and died. His grandfather on the maternal side was a farmer of Massachusetts, of which State he was a life-long resident. Leonard McDaniels was born and reared in Vermont and about the year 1841 changed his place of residence to the State of New York, town of Pomfret, Chautauqua county. Thence he moved into the town of Villanova, where he remained some time, and finally located in the town of Hanover on the public road leading from Silver Creek to Forestville. Here he purchased some land and went to farming, which he has since followed with success and good financial results. Politically, his tendencies were decidedly republican, although he always held himself aloof from partisanship and office seeking. He held membership in the Methodist Episcopal church, where his family were constant worshipers.

During the war of 1812 he was mustered into the service and took part in nearly all the notable campaigns of that war. Mr. McDaniels entered the bonds of marriage with Miss Lydia Howe, who is still living in the town of Hanover, at the age of seventy-seven years. They were the parents of seven children: Sarah, married to Philo Osborn (dead) and now living in the village of Silver Creek; Mary, married to Albert Bennett, a resident of near Forestville, New York; Ellen, married to Abner Stebbins a farmer of Erie county, Pa.; Emily (dead); Almeron; Adelaide, married to Mason Cushman, a farmer of the town of Hanover; and Charles (married to Nora Morris) living in Sheridan, Chautauqua county, a farmer.

Almeron McDaniels is indebted to the common school system for his education, and to his early life upon his father’s farm for a strong, robust physical constitution. After leaving school he began his independent career as a clerk at Silver Creek, where he spent three years. At the expiration of this time he returned to farming, and in 1883 located where he now lives in Hanover township. In conjunction with his farm interests, he runs a dairy, which has proved quite a successful and profitable venture. He has been democratic in his political proclivities until within a few years, when his moral convictions led him to ally himself with the Prohibition party.

Almeron McDaniels united in marriage with Emily A. Brown, daughter of Sidney and Harriet (Green) Brown of Hanover Centre, New York, but formerly of the State of Vermont. He has two children: Sidney B. and Fred A., both young.