History of Franklin and Grand Isle Counties, Vermont; 
Edited by Lewis Cass Aldrich; Syracuse, N.Y.; 
D.Mason & Co Publishers; 1891.

County:  Franklin
Township:  Richford

DAILY, JOHN S.,  was descended from Revolutionary stock.  His 
grandfather served during that was and participated in the battle of Bunker 
Hill.  His father was a volunteer substitute during the War of 1812.  John S. 
Dailey was born at Barnet in 1822, the youngest but one of six children of 
David and Fanny Dailey.  Young Dailey lived with his parents on the farm, 
but soon after becoming of age he went to Massachusetts, and after about 
five years returned, remaining at home for some eight years.  In 1855 he 
went to California and remained two years, returning in the fall of 1856.  He 
next went to St. Johnsbury, and some two years later went on the railroad as 
express messenger.  During the later years of their lives Mr. Dailey cared for 
his aged parents until their deaths – the father in 1861 and the mother in 
1870.  In 1871 he came to Richford and started in trade.  In 1857 he married 
Mahala D., daughter of James Gibson, of Canada, by whom he had one 
child, who died in infancy.  In politics he is a Republican, and as such 
represented the town of Richford in 1884.  He has also held several other 
town offices, and has several times declined offered positions on account of 
business interests.

Submitted by Linda Pingel