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JOHN D. DALY - It is with pleasure that we are permitted to write concerning the
talented and enterprising business man whose name appears above, since he is one
of those men of honor and stability who form the real strength of any community,
and since he is numbered as one of the leading business men of the county of Harney,
and has here and elsewhere achieved a success which is very gratifying both in the
results to him individually and in the general business world of eastern Oregon,
where he has operated.
Mr. Daly was born in Canyon City, Oregon, on May 13, 1866, being the son of Eugene
and Mary A. (Donohoe) Daly. His parents were natives of County Cork, Ireland, and
came to the United States in 1862, locating in Boston, whence in 1863 they came
via Panama, to California, and in 1864 came on to Canyon City. His father died in
1881 and the mother died in 1897. Our subject grew up in Canyon City, gaining a
good education from the schools there and at the age of sixteen years started on
a course of teaching, wherein he made a commendable record. He gained sufficient
money by this labor to pay his way at college, and he attended at Santa Clara, California.
In the fall of 1890, he came to Drewsey and in partnership with Abner Robbins started
a general merchandise establishment, which has since been one of the leading business
houses of the county and is operated under the firm name of Daly & Robbins. They
commenced with a small stock of goods, labored hard and have built up a fine trade,
because of their wise methods and because of the manifestation of integrity and
uprightness in all their ways. They have a large stock of all kinds of goods from
dry goods, clothing, furnishings, boots and shoes, crockery, groceries, and feed
to lumber, hardware, and machinery and implements. In addition to this fine business,
Mr. Daly and his partner are among the leading financiers of the section, being
largely interested in the First National Bank of Ontario, and the First National
Bank at Burns, Oregon. Our subject is the president of both of these institutions
and they are in a flourishing condition and well established. The firm also handles
a sawmill, twenty-two miles north from Drewsey, and Mr. Daly has about one-half
dozen ranches of value in various parts of the country, and he manages this large
amount of business with marked wisdom and discretion, putting into the entire lines
energy and vigor which are characteristic of his own personality.
Mr. Daly was married on May 5, 1894, to Daisy O., daughter of Joseph and Emeline
(McAtee) Robertson, and three children have been born to them, as follows: Mary
E., born June 18, 1895; Eunice M., born July 25, 1897; Abner R., born September
10, 1899. Mr. Robertson was a native of Scotland, came to Illinois, and thence in
1860 to Jackson county, Oregon, crossing the plains with ox teams. They were six
months making the trip having to fight the Indians considerably. In 1863 he came
to Grant county and to Harney in 1889. Mrs. Daly was born near Canyon City, Oregon,
on February 5, 1875.
Fraternally Mr. Daly is affiliated with the A. F. & A. M., Burns Lodge, No. 97,
and the A. O. U. W., Drewsey Lodge, No. 119. He dwells in a fine modern residence
of nine rooms, over which his estimable wife presides with a graciousness and dignity
that are becoming.
Transcribed from Page 659 of Harney County Biographies from “An Illustrated History
of Baker, Grant, Malheur and Harney Counties with a brief outline of the early history
of the State of Oregon”, Published 1902 by Western Historical Publishing Company
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