“Memorial and Biographical History of Dallas County,” published:  
Chicago;  The Lewis Publishing Company, 1892.

DANIEL TITTERINGTON,  farmer and stock-raiser, 214 Houston street, 
Dallas, Texas, is one of the prominent citizens of Dallas county, and has 
been identified with its interests since July 19, 1859.

Mr. Titterington is a native of Kentucky, born in Christian county, May 28, 
1828.  His father, Adam Titterington, was born in Ireland, spent his early 
boyhood days in the north of England, and at the age of twelve years came 
to America, landing in the United States a stranger and alone.  He went to 
the mountains of Pennsylvania and was employed in herding hogs, using his 
leisure moments for study and thus obtaining a fair education; finally drifted 
into Kentucky, where he lived for many years teaching school and farming.  
He was married in Cumberland county, Kentucky, to Miss Catherine Smith, 
daughter of a Revolutionary soldier who fought under Washington, and who 
lived to be over 100 years old, dying in Kentucky.  Her death occurred in 
1837, and Mr. Titterington subsequently wedded her sister, who died in 
1868.  By his first wife he had eleven children, and by his second, two, the 
subject of our sketch being the fifth son and the ninth child, and being nine 
years old when his mother died.  Adam Titterington died in 1856, aged 
seventy-three years.

Daniel was reared on the farm and educated under the tutorship of his father.  
He remained at home until eighteen years of age, when he began to learn the 
wagon and carriage-making trade, and served one year.  About this time the 
California gold fever  broke out, and, like many another ambitious youth 
eager for adventure and wealth, he left his trade and crossed the plains to the 
new El Dorado of the West, making the journey with ox teams and landing 
in Sacramento September 15, 1852.  He was successfully engaged in mining 
and lumbering there until 1858, when he returned East and the following 
year located in Dallas county, Texas.  During the late war he enlisted in 
Company I, Thirtieth Texas Mounted Troops, and served in the Indian 
Nation and in Arkansas until the close of that sanguinary struggle, after 
which he returned to Dallas county and continued his stock-raising and 
agricultural pursuits.  To his first purchase, 342 ½ acres, he has since added 
other lands and is now the owner of 1,301 ½ acres.

Mr. Titterington was married in 1862 to Miss Catherine Bentley, a native of 
Danville, Kentucky, daughter of James M. and Amanda (Carpenter) Bentley, 
natives of Kentucky, who came to Texas in 1852.  They are the parents of 
three children:  George A., of Paris, Texas; Dr. James H., a graduate of 
Bellevue Medical College, New York; and Jesse B., of Dallas.

Mr. Titterington is a self-made man.  His present position of prominence and 
affluence is due to his own industry.  He is a man of good judgement and 
sound business principles.  Politically, he affiliates with the Democratic 
party.  He is a member of the A.F. & A.M., Tannehill Lodge, and of the 
Dallas Chapter.  Mrs. Titterington is a member of the Christian Church.

Submitted by: L. Pingel