James Monroe Daly, 1829-1912
No. 4509 James Monroe Daly, 1829-1912
From American Series of Popular Biographies. Massachusetts Edition. This Volume Contains Biographical Sketches of Representative Citizens of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. (Boston: Graves & Steinbarger, 1891
James Monroe Daly, a prominent member of the dental profession of the city of Boston, and resident of the Dorchester District, was born in Salisbury, Vt., December 23, 1829, son of James W. And Sarah (Owen) Daly. He is a grandson of James Daly, a native of Aberdeen, Scotland, who when a young man emigrated to Canada, and there engaged in the lumber business. James Daly married Debora McKellup, who was born in Connecticut, and who previous to her marriage resided in Henniker, N.H. After the death of Mr. Daly she married a Mr. Stephen Barber. By her first husband she had six children, of whom the eldest was James; and of her second union she reared five children. She lived to the advanced age of ninety-six years. James Daly died at the age of sixty. He was a thirty-third degree Mason.
James Washington Daly was born in Cornwall, Addison county, Vt., in the month of August 26, 1806. He became a miller, and was engaged in that business during the entire active period of his life, owning a large flouring-mill in Bristol., Vt. He married Sarah Owen, daughter of Abner and Lucretia Owen, of Middlebury, Vt., and of Scotch ancestry on the paternal side. Her mother, whose maiden name was Lucretia Severy, was of Dutch descent, it is said, and of old Colonial stock, some of her ancestors having taken an active part in the Revolutionary War. Mr. and Mrs. James W. Daly were the parents of three children: Sarah Lucretia, who married Almon Thomas, and died at the age of thirty-two years; James Monroe, the subject of this sketch; and Martin H., who was killed at the age of twenty-one years by the falling of a tree in the Adirondacks. James W. Daly died in 1888, at the age of eighty-two years. His wife died a year later at the same age. Her father, Abner Owen, died at the age of one hundred years.
James M. Daly was educated in Boston, of which city he became a resident at the age of sixteen years, his studies being pursued mostly at an evening school. In 1846 he began the study of dentistry under Dr. John Sabine on Franklin Street, then a residential street, and six years later, in 1852, he began the active practice of his profession, in which he has since been constantly engaged. He was graduated at the Boston Dental College in 1870 with the degree of Doctor of Dental Surgery. Dr. Daly has kept full pace with all the marvellous progress of dental science in the last half century, and his reputation for careful and skillful work brings him a large and lucrative practice.
He was married in 1852 to Miss Amelia S. Churchill, a daughter of Thomas and Sally (Sprague) Churchill, of Hingham. Of this union were born two children: James Harlow Daly, D.D.S., a resident of Milton Lower Mills, and a professor in the Boston Dental College; and Grace Amelia, who died at the age of eight months. Mrs. Amelia Daly died in 1860; and Dr. Daly married for his second wife, in 1864, Miss Elizabeth Tolman Bispham, a daughter of Eleazer J. And Mary E. (Tolman) Bispham, of Dorchester, and a representative of an old Colonial family. Of this second union there is one child, Dr. M. Ordway Daly, who is associated with his father as a partner in the practice of dentistry.
Dr. Daly attends the Unitarian church. Politically, he was in early years a member of the Whig party, but has been a Republican since the organization of that party. He belongs to the Royal Arcanum.
Note: Daly’s obituary in The Boston Post, December 28, 1912, states that he lived at 1119 Adams Street