- HERMAN P. DAILEY, a skillful and highly successful photographer
of Beloit, Rock County, has
- caught the loftier ideals of his calling, and his work is
warm with artistic glow. His pictures are not only true to nature,
but they are refined with the touch of culture, and, while they
are a lasting delight in that they preserve cherished form and
feature, they also keep the light of the smile and the sparkle
of the eye, so that every photograph has a voice of affection
for friend and acquaintance.
- Mr. DAILEY was born in Washington County, N.Y., Sept. 7,
1866, and is a son of Perry and
- Polly (DAKE) DAILEY, both natives of New York. His parents
had a family of ten children, all but one now living: Henry,
of Woodstock, Ill.; Elvin, of Detroit, Mich.; Charles, of Janesville,
Wis.; Ida, widow of William WILSON, who has her home in Huron,
S. Dak.; Fred, of Chicago; Arthur, of Madison, Wis.; Delia, wife
of Henry SIMDRAKER, of Woodstock, Ill.; Herman P., of Beloit;
and William, of Greenwood, Ill. Perry DAILEY owned the famous
Sandy Hill Stone Quarry at Sandy Hill, N.Y., which he operated
until he came to Illinois, in 1868. He located on a farm near
Greenwood, in McHenry County, and engaged in its cultivation
for a number of years. In 1888 he gave up active farming, and
made his home in the village of Greenwood, where he is still
living. He has become quite an extensive dealer in real estate,
and owns most of the business houses in Greenwood. Mrs. DAILEY
died in 1895, at the age of sixty-seven. She was a Baptist in
her religious convictions. Mr. DAILEY enlisted in the Union
army, and served three years as a soldier. Politically he is
a Republican, and has held various town offices. His father,
Henry DAILEY, was a native of New York, of Scottish descent,
and lived to see ninety-three years. He reared nine children.
He was engaged in the livery business. Henry P. DAKE, the maternal
grandfather of our subject, was of Scottish descent, and lived
to be ninety-four years old. He had six children.
- Herman P. DAILEY lived on his father's farm near Greenwood
until he reached the age of fifteen.
- He was a bright student in the local school, and was sent
to Valparaiso, Ind., to take a year's instruction at the Normal,
after which he had a year at the Chicago University, and another
year at Beloit College. He began photographic work at Chicago,
where he spent three years in a studio, and with the experience
thus gained he in 1893 came to Beloit and opened a studio for
himself. His excellent work attracted attention, and he has
gone steadily onward since coming to this city, with an ever-increasing
patronage and a widening circle of friends. Mr. DAILEY is an
artist of fine ability, who thoroughly understands his calling,
and his business is growing on his hands every day. Personally
he is an affable and agreeable gentleman, who enjoys the confidence
and esteem of all his acquaintances.
- Mr. DAILEY and Miss Abagail BURPREE were united in marriage
Nov. 9, 1890, and the have
- one daughter, Marian, born Aug. 6, 1900. Mrs. DAILEY is
a daughter of Charles and Helen (DAY) BURPREE, and is a lady
of many gifts and graces. He is a Republican, and takes a deep
interest in the welfare of the country.
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- Taken from "Commemorative Biographical Record of
the Counties of Rock, Green, Grant, Iowa and Lafayette Wisconsin"
(c) 1901, p. 731.
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- Courtesy of Carol
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