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Source: The Historical Encyclopedia of Illinois and History of Fulton County
Munsell Publishing Co., Chicago, 1908

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The Biography of James Marvin DAILEY 

Transcribed exactly according to the original complete text by Anne Marie Willis. 

[Surnames: DAILEY, KETCHUM, MARKLEY] 

[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.