Counties of Morgan, Monroe and Brown, Indiana. Historical and Biographical. 
Charles Blanchard, Editor.
Chicago: F. A. Battey & Co., Publishers, 1884. 

MORGAN COUNTY, INDIANA
BAKER TOWNSHIP
PAGE 367

JOHN MCDANIEL was born Janaury, 1834, in Pulaski County, Ky., and is the fifth
of the nine children of John and Unia Elizabeth (Littlejohn) McDaniel, natives of Ken-
tucky, and of Scotch and Irish descent.  John, our subject, was reared to the plow,
and in 1852 came to this county, lived with an uncle and worked by the month for
several years.  About 1858, he lived in Missouri and Kansas, and afterward was em-
ployed to drive a cattle team across the plains.  From Salt Lake he assisted in driving
one thousand head of cattle to California, where he engaged in farming by the month,
but soon afterward returned to his present location.  April 1, 1862, he enlisted in Com-
pany H, Thirty-third Indiana Volunteer Infantry, the regiment marching immediately to 
join the Army of the Cumberland, which took part at the battles of Franklin, Cumberland
Gap, the Atlanta campaign and the march through Georgia.  While in the hospital, his
regiment was captured, by the enemy, and he was thereafter assigned to the heavy
artillery, in which he remained for ten months, and was discharged April, 1865.  Janaury
11, 1866, he married Mary A., daughter of James and Ellen Martin, which union was
cemented by six children--James H., William Franklin, John E., Clinton H., Kelle B. and
Ella J.  Mr. McDaniel is owner of eighty acres, being a good farm and comfortable home.
He is a member of the G. A. R., and of the Baptist Church, also an active Republican.

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