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His Father gave him 125 acres of land when he married at the age of 25. This was good land in the valley. He immediatly began farming, adding to his land, until at the death of his father he owned 1500 acres of the richest land in the State. His father died when Dan was 45. Was an acknowledged leader in the social and religious society in which he and his wife moved. He had a very limited formal education as was basically a self taught man. He collected a substantual library. He was first a Whig then a Republican. He was in the foremost ranks in the early formation of the Republican party, and took the stump for John C. Fremont. An attempt to assassinate him was made by the K.G.C. because of his strong uncompromising support of the Union.
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Parents were the first settlers in Richland, Illinois. Of Mary it is said that "Her life was an uniform example of piety, not of that kind which affects only to be seen that it may be admired of men, but that which manifests itself in the domestic, social, and religious duties of everyday life."
Of her it was said that she exemplified the spirit of the apostle's injunction, "In all things showing thyself a pattern of good works."
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His Father gave him 125 acres of land when he married at the age of 25. This was good land in the valley. He immediatly began farming, adding to his land, until at the death of his father he owned 1500 acres of the richest land in the State. His father died when Dan was 45. Was an acknowledged leader in the social and religious society in which he and his wife moved. He had a very limited formal education as was basically a self taught man. He collected a substantual library. He was first a Whig then a Republican. He was in the foremost ranks in the early formation of the Republican party, and took the stump for John C. Fremont. An attempt to assassinate him was made by the K.G.C. because of his strong uncompromising support of the Union.
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