- DANIEL VANCE was for many years one of the most respected
and esteemed citizens of the
- town of Sylvester, Green county. Of late he has been retired
from active farming, and on March 1, 1901, moved into the city
of Monroe with his family, to spend his last days in well-earned
rest and repose.
- Mr. VANCE is a son of Samuel and Lavina (JOHNS) VANCE both
natives of Fayette county,
- Penn., who came to Green county, Wis., about 1845, four years
after their marriage. Samuel VANCE was the son of Hugh and Margaret
(DETRICK) VANCE, who were among the early settlers of Fayette
county, Penn. Hugh VANCE was born in 1784, and died Jan. 11,
1827. About 1809 he married Margaret DETRICK, who was born in
1790, and to them came the following children: Marie, born Sept.
15, 1810; Melinda, May 9, 1812; Elia, March 5, 1814; Samuel (whose
name appears above), Feb. 21, 1816; Ezekiel, Feb. 1, 1818; Keziah,
Feb. 26, 1820; Robert A., May 30, 1823; George, March 27, 1825;
Hugh, Jr., May 16, 1827. All are deceased. Samuel VANCE died
Oct. 11, 1898, his wife on April 4, 1883, at the age of sixty-nine
years. They were the parents of seven children: James P., who
died in the town of Sylvester May 19, 1871, aged twenty-eight
years, four months, nineteen days; George D., of Kansas; John
B., a farmer in the town of Sylvester; Hugh J., a miner in California;
Ezekiel T., a retired farmer, in Monroe, Wis.; Daniel W.; and
Rebecca R., the wife of William RODERICK, of the town of Jefferson.
- Daniel W. VANCE was born Jan. 13, 1855, and Sept. 19, 1888,
was married to Miss Eliza M.
- DEAL, of Green county, a daughter of Isaiah and Veronica
(HUTZELL) DEAL, the former a thrifty farmer of Green county.
Mr. and Mrs. VANCE are the parents of one daughter, Mae Erma,
born Dec. 11, 1889. Mrs. VANCE was one of a family of nine children,
and was born July 4, 1865.
- Mr. VANCE grew to manhood under the parental roof and acquired
his education in the district
- school. Bred to farming, he has made that business his life
work. He began poor at the age of twenty-one, but by hard work,
industry, honesty and economy he has come to own a half section
of land, well cultivated and provided with all modern improvements,
which he now rents. He is comfortable and independent in his
situation beyond the general run of men. In politics he is a
Democrat, and in religion a member of the Baptist Church. Though
never seeking office, he has from time to time been called upon
to fill local positions as part of the obligations of this citizenship,
having served as judge of election, school director, and in other
minor positions. In his own community he has a good standing,
and is spoken of as one of the representative farmers of his
region.
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- Taken from "Commemorative Biographical Record of
the Counties of Rock, Green, Grant, Iowa and Lafayette Wisconsin,"
(c)1901 Union Publishing; pp. 578-579.
-
- Courtesy of Carol.
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