Historical Encyclopedia of Illinois, Illustrated
1908, and the History of Fulton County, by Newton Bateman, LL.D. and
Paul Selby, A.M., Edited by Jesse Hevlin, page 846
Dailey, James Marvin. - James M. Dailey is among the best known
residents of Lee Township, Fulton County, where he was born July 7,
1852, a son of Michael Dailey, a farmer of the Keystone State, and Jane
(Ketchum) Dailey. The father came to Fulton County at an early day and
settled near Babylon, where he remained for some time before finally
locating in Deerfield Township.
The subject of this sketch was educated in the district schools
of his native township and was trained on the family homestead to the
occupation of farming. After following that calling until 1892 he
engaged in the grocery business at Babylon, but, selling his
establishment in 1897, returned to the old-time avocation. Two years
later he began to carry the mail from Ellisville to Bushnell, McDonough
County, but in 1905 retired from active work and is now residing in the
latter place. He is the owner of a pretty place of ten acres at
Bushnell, and retains the proprietorship of his eighty-acre farm in Lee
Township. In politics Mr. Dailey is a Democrat, and has served the
public as School Director for a period of three years. On March 7,
1878, James M. Dailey was married, in Lee Township, to Mina Markley, of
Deerfield Township, who was born March 20, 1861. Mr. Dailey is not a
member of any church, but is a moral and useful member of his home
community.
submitted by Debi Hoffman
