The following is taken from an official account of Steuben County, New York, written in 1921.
"Daniel McCormick came from the county of Antrim in 1832, and built a grist-mill at Rough and Ready.
In 1834 his brother James came, bringing his wife and two little children, arriving in the winter at New York City, where he bought a one-horse wagon, and started up the North River on his overland journey to his new home, which he reached abut the middle of January, after twenty four days of almost insufferable hardship, arrived at his destination, and purchasing an improvement, made that summer the first three firkins of butter for market which were shipped from the town. He soon increased his dairy to 30 cows, and built him a house, three stories in height, on the point of a high hill overlooking the village, from which he took the name of "High Jimmy" McCormick, as he is popularly known throughout the surrounding country."
1850 West Union, Steuben, NY Census Pg 3, Oct 19
Daniel McCormick 43 farmer $600 Ireland
Catharine 35 NY
Patrick 10 NY
Mary 9 NY
The census above is possibly the correct Daniel McCormick. Since Daniel relocated to Wisconsin after 1860, and remarried there (to Mary Jane Keating Ray, the widow of Joseph Ray) the logical conclusion is that his first wife Catherine had died by 1860. By the time Daniel left New York, he was 53, and his children Patrick and Mary would have been 20 and 19. What became of these two grown children is unknown.
Daniel was married to Mary Jane Keating Ray McCormick in Wisconsin for about 11 years between 1862 and 1873. They probably continued to live in the Plainfield/Hancock area, close to three of Mary Jane's four daughters and two of her three living sons. Eldest son John Ray and eldest daughter Rosanna Ray McCormick were both living in the Wisconsin Rapids area about a day's journey away.
According to the Keating-Ray family bible, Mary Jane died in 1873 at age 62, and Daniel died in 1875 at an approximate age of 68 (if he was born in 1807 as the census below indicates). Daniel's passing was recorded in the Keating-Ray family bible by presumably one of Mary Jane's adult children who had taken possession of the bible after her passing. This recording of Daniel McCormick's death would seem to indicate that he had been, at the very least, well accepted by the adult Ray children as a bona fide family member when he remarried their mother Mary Jane after Joseph Ray's passing in 1861. Mary Jane however was buried next to her first husband Joseph in the Hancock cemetery, probably because it seemed to be the logical thing to do at the time, to both Daniel and the adult Ray children. Daniel's gravesite, presumed to be in Hancock, has not been located as of 2011. It is possible that he returned to New York after Mary Jane's passing in 1872, as his brother James McCormick and some of James' sons were still living there, as well as perhaps Daniel's own offspring and grandchildren.
Prior to the deaths of Mary Jane and Daniel, the extended Ray and McCormick family had experienced enormous stress in the preceding years of 1868-72. There were happy occasions, with Mary Jane's adult children having many babies...But there were also terrible losses.
Mary Jane's oldest daughter Rosanna, age 38, gave birth to her eleventh or twelfth child in January of 1868, but then lost a nine year old son (Patrick Frederick) three months later in early April, of unknown causes. Rose's oldest child Louise Theresa, age 22, had given birth to Mary Jane's second great grandchild the year prior, in 1867, a little girl named Hattie. Hattie's older sister Ella had been born in 1865.
In 1869, a year after the loss of little Patrick Frederick, Mary Jane's second oldest son William's wife died during a trip to Missouri, leaving William a single father of two small boys. By the census of 1870, William and his sons had moved in with his wife's parents not far from Mary Jane and the rest of William's siblings.
More births and deaths followed in rapid succession. Louise Theresa gave birth to two more great granddaughters in 1870 and 1871. In September of 1871 Louise's youngest sibling was born when her mother Rose had her own last baby of thirteen at the age of 42. Rose's 32 year old sister Mary Jane had her sixth baby the same year, only to be widowed simultaneously. Rose's youngest brother Charles Ray had his first and only babies in 1870 and 1872. Sisters Elizabeth and Sarah, and their oldest brother John Ray, all had babies in 1873, the same year their mother Mary Jane died.
According to the Keating-Ray family bible, Daniel's nephew Hugh McCormick died sometime during the year 1871 of unknown causes, in Hancock or elsewhere. Hugh was married to Mary Jane's third daughter who had been named after her mother (Mary Jane Ray McCormick) who was left widowed at age 32 with six children under the age of 10, including a newborn. With this many small children to care for, someone had to have helped out - a role which likely initially fell heavily on grandmother Mary Jane and her husband Daniel. Daniel's brother James McCormick back in New York may have sent his youngest son Frank to live with or near Mary Jane in order to help her keep her farm intact. Later, one of Mary Jane's sons was sent to New York at the age of 12, but died there during an outbreak of diptheria in 1879.
The family continued to lose able-bodied men in the following year of 1872. In early summer within less than four weeks, matriarch Mary Jane lost both her son William and her oldest grandson John Louis McCormick, age 22, the unmarried son of her daughter Rosanna and her husband Thomas McCormick, a young uncle to Hugh. William died in a saw mill accident, and John Louis died of unknown causes.
Naturally Daniel would have grieved the loss of all of these family members along with Mary Jane, especially the loss of his two adult nephews Hugh and John Louis McCormick. He died just a few years later, in 1875.
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"Daniel McCormick came from the county of Antrim in 1832, and built a grist-mill at Rough and Ready.
In 1834 his brother James came, bringing his wife and two little children, arriving in the winter at New York City, where he bought a one-horse wagon, and started up the North River on his overland journey to his new home, which he reached abut the middle of January, after twenty four days of almost insufferable hardship, arrived at his destination, and purchasing an improvement, made that summer the first three firkins of butter for market which were shipped from the town. He soon increased his dairy to 30 cows, and built him a house, three stories in height, on the point of a high hill overlooking the village, from which he took the name of "High Jimmy" McCormick, as he is popularly known throughout the surrounding country."
1850 West Union, Steuben, NY Census Pg 3, Oct 19
Daniel McCormick 43 farmer $600 Ireland
Catharine 35 NY
Patrick 10 NY
Mary 9 NY
The census above is possibly the correct Daniel McCormick. Since Daniel relocated to Wisconsin after 1860, and remarried there (to Mary Jane Keating Ray, the widow of Joseph Ray) the logical conclusion is that his first wife Catherine had died by 1860. By the time Daniel left New York, he was 53, and his children Patrick and Mary would have been 20 and 19. What became of these two grown children is unknown.
Daniel was married to Mary Jane Keating Ray McCormick in Wisconsin for about 11 years between 1862 and 1873. They probably continued to live in the Plainfield/Hancock area, close to three of Mary Jane's four daughters and two of her three living sons. Eldest son John Ray and eldest daughter Rosanna Ray McCormick were both living in the Wisconsin Rapids area about a day's journey away.
According to the Keating-Ray family bible, Mary Jane died in 1873 at age 62, and Daniel died in 1875 at an approximate age of 68 (if he was born in 1807 as the census below indicates). Daniel's passing was recorded in the Keating-Ray family bible by presumably one of Mary Jane's adult children who had taken possession of the bible after her passing. This recording of Daniel McCormick's death would seem to indicate that he had been, at the very least, well accepted by the adult Ray children as a bona fide family member when he remarried their mother Mary Jane after Joseph Ray's passing in 1861. Mary Jane however was buried next to her first husband Joseph in the Hancock cemetery, probably because it seemed to be the logical thing to do at the time, to both Daniel and the adult Ray children. Daniel's gravesite, presumed to be in Hancock, has not been located as of 2011. It is possible that he returned to New York after Mary Jane's passing in 1872, as his brother James McCormick and some of James' sons were still living there, as well as perhaps Daniel's own offspring and grandchildren.
Prior to the deaths of Mary Jane and Daniel, the extended Ray and McCormick family had experienced enormous stress in the preceding years of 1868-72. There were happy occasions, with Mary Jane's adult children having many babies...But there were also terrible losses.
Mary Jane's oldest daughter Rosanna, age 38, gave birth to her eleventh or twelfth child in January of 1868, but then lost a nine year old son (Patrick Frederick) three months later in early April, of unknown causes. Rose's oldest child Louise Theresa, age 22, had given birth to Mary Jane's second great grandchild the year prior, in 1867, a little girl named Hattie. Hattie's older sister Ella had been born in 1865.
In 1869, a year after the loss of little Patrick Frederick, Mary Jane's second oldest son William's wife died during a trip to Missouri, leaving William a single father of two small boys. By the census of 1870, William and his sons had moved in with his wife's parents not far from Mary Jane and the rest of William's siblings.
More births and deaths followed in rapid succession. Louise Theresa gave birth to two more great granddaughters in 1870 and 1871. In September of 1871 Louise's youngest sibling was born when her mother Rose had her own last baby of thirteen at the age of 42. Rose's 32 year old sister Mary Jane had her sixth baby the same year, only to be widowed simultaneously. Rose's youngest brother Charles Ray had his first and only babies in 1870 and 1872. Sisters Elizabeth and Sarah, and their oldest brother John Ray, all had babies in 1873, the same year their mother Mary Jane died.
According to the Keating-Ray family bible, Daniel's nephew Hugh McCormick died sometime during the year 1871 of unknown causes, in Hancock or elsewhere. Hugh was married to Mary Jane's third daughter who had been named after her mother (Mary Jane Ray McCormick) who was left widowed at age 32 with six children under the age of 10, including a newborn. With this many small children to care for, someone had to have helped out - a role which likely initially fell heavily on grandmother Mary Jane and her husband Daniel. Daniel's brother James McCormick back in New York may have sent his youngest son Frank to live with or near Mary Jane in order to help her keep her farm intact. Later, one of Mary Jane's sons was sent to New York at the age of 12, but died there during an outbreak of diptheria in 1879.
The family continued to lose able-bodied men in the following year of 1872. In early summer within less than four weeks, matriarch Mary Jane lost both her son William and her oldest grandson John Louis McCormick, age 22, the unmarried son of her daughter Rosanna and her husband Thomas McCormick, a young uncle to Hugh. William died in a saw mill accident, and John Louis died of unknown causes.
Naturally Daniel would have grieved the loss of all of these family members along with Mary Jane, especially the loss of his two adult nephews Hugh and John Louis McCormick. He died just a few years later, in 1875.
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The following is taken from an official account of Steuben County, New York, written in 1921.
"Daniel McCormick came from the county of Antrim in 1832, and built a grist-mill at Rough and Ready.
In 1834 his brother James came, bringing his wife and two little children, arriving in the winter at New York City, where he bought a one-horse wagon, and started up the North River on his overland journey to his new home, which he reached abut the middle of January, after twenty four days of almost insufferable hardship, arrived at his destination, and purchasing an improvement, made that summer the first three firkins of butter for market which were shipped from the town. He soon increased his dairy to 30 cows, and built him a house, three stories in height, on the point of a high hill overlooking the village, from which he took the name of "High Jimmy" McCormick, as he is popularly known throughout the surrounding country."
1850 West Union, Steuben, NY Census Pg 3, Oct 19
Daniel McCormick 43 farmer $600 Ireland
Catharine 35 NY
Patrick 10 NY
Mary 9 NY
The census above is possibly the correct Daniel McCormick. Since Daniel relocated to Wisconsin after 1860, and remarried there (to Mary Jane Keating Ray, the widow of Joseph Ray) the logical conclusion is that his first wife Catherine had died by 1860. By the time Daniel left New York, he was 53, and his children Patrick and Mary would have been 20 and 19. What became of these two grown children is unknown.
Daniel was married to Mary Jane Keating Ray McCormick in Wisconsin for about 11 years between 1862 and 1873. They probably continued to live in the Plainfield/Hancock area, close to three of Mary Jane's four daughters and two of her three living sons. Eldest son John Ray and eldest daughter Rosanna Ray McCormick were both living in the Wisconsin Rapids area about a day's journey away.
According to the Keating-Ray family bible, Mary Jane died in 1873 at age 62, and Daniel died in 1875 at an approximate age of 68 (if he was born in 1807 as the census below indicates). Daniel's passing was recorded in the Keating-Ray family bible by presumably one of Mary Jane's adult children who had taken possession of the bible after her passing. This recording of Daniel McCormick's death would seem to indicate that he had been, at the very least, well accepted by the adult Ray children as a bona fide family member when he remarried their mother Mary Jane after Joseph Ray's passing in 1861. Mary Jane however was buried next to her first husband Joseph in the Hancock cemetery, probably because it seemed to be the logical thing to do at the time, to both Daniel and the adult Ray children. Daniel's gravesite, presumed to be in Hancock, has not been located as of 2011. It is possible that he returned to New York after Mary Jane's passing in 1872, as his brother James McCormick and some of James' sons were still living there, as well as perhaps Daniel's own offspring and grandchildren.
Prior to the deaths of Mary Jane and Daniel, the extended Ray and McCormick family had experienced enormous stress in the preceding years of 1868-72. There were happy occasions, with Mary Jane's adult children having many babies...But there were also terrible losses.
Mary Jane's oldest daughter Rosanna, age 38, gave birth to her eleventh or twelfth child in January of 1868, but then lost a nine year old son (Patrick Frederick) three months later in early April, of unknown causes. Rose's oldest child Louise Theresa, age 22, had given birth to Mary Jane's second great grandchild the year prior, in 1867, a little girl named Hattie. Hattie's older sister Ella had been born in 1865.
In 1869, a year after the loss of little Patrick Frederick, Mary Jane's second oldest son William's wife died during a trip to Missouri, leaving William a single father of two small boys. By the census of 1870, William and his sons had moved in with his wife's parents not far from Mary Jane and the rest of William's siblings.
More births and deaths followed in rapid succession. Louise Theresa gave birth to two more great granddaughters in 1870 and 1871. In September of 1871 Louise's youngest sibling was born when her mother Rose had her own last baby of thirteen at the age of 42. Rose's 32 year old sister Mary Jane had her sixth baby the same year, only to be widowed simultaneously. Rose's youngest brother Charles Ray had his first and only babies in 1870 and 1872. Sisters Elizabeth and Sarah, and their oldest brother John Ray, all had babies in 1873, the same year their mother Mary Jane died.
According to the Keating-Ray family bible, Daniel's nephew Hugh McCormick died sometime during the year 1871 of unknown causes, in Hancock or elsewhere. Hugh was married to Mary Jane's third daughter who had been named after her mother (Mary Jane Ray McCormick) who was left widowed at age 32 with six children under the age of 10, including a newborn. With this many small children to care for, someone had to have helped out - a role which likely initially fell heavily on grandmother Mary Jane and her husband Daniel. Daniel's brother James McCormick back in New York may have sent his youngest son Frank to live with or near Mary Jane in order to help her keep her farm intact. Later, one of Mary Jane's sons was sent to New York at the age of 12, but died there during an outbreak of diptheria in 1879.
The family continued to lose able-bodied men in the following year of 1872. In early summer within less than four weeks, matriarch Mary Jane lost both her son William and her oldest grandson John Louis McCormick, age 22, the unmarried son of her daughter Rosanna and her husband Thomas McCormick, a young uncle to Hugh. William died in a saw mill accident, and John Louis died of unknown causes.
Naturally Daniel would have grieved the loss of all of these family members along with Mary Jane, especially the loss of his two adult nephews Hugh and John Louis McCormick. He died just a few years later, in 1875.
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"Daniel McCormick came from the county of Antrim in 1832, and built a grist-mill at Rough and Ready.
In 1834 his brother James came, bringing his wife and two little children, arriving in the winter at New York City, where he bought a one-horse wagon, and started up the North River on his overland journey to his new home, which he reached abut the middle of January, after twenty four days of almost insufferable hardship, arrived at his destination, and purchasing an improvement, made that summer the first three firkins of butter for market which were shipped from the town. He soon increased his dairy to 30 cows, and built him a house, three stories in height, on the point of a high hill overlooking the village, from which he took the name of "High Jimmy" McCormick, as he is popularly known throughout the surrounding country."
1850 West Union, Steuben, NY Census Pg 3, Oct 19
Daniel McCormick 43 farmer $600 Ireland
Catharine 35 NY
Patrick 10 NY
Mary 9 NY
The census above is possibly the correct Daniel McCormick. Since Daniel relocated to Wisconsin after 1860, and remarried there (to Mary Jane Keating Ray, the widow of Joseph Ray) the logical conclusion is that his first wife Catherine had died by 1860. By the time Daniel left New York, he was 53, and his children Patrick and Mary would have been 20 and 19. What became of these two grown children is unknown.
Daniel was married to Mary Jane Keating Ray McCormick in Wisconsin for about 11 years between 1862 and 1873. They probably continued to live in the Plainfield/Hancock area, close to three of Mary Jane's four daughters and two of her three living sons. Eldest son John Ray and eldest daughter Rosanna Ray McCormick were both living in the Wisconsin Rapids area about a day's journey away.
According to the Keating-Ray family bible, Mary Jane died in 1873 at age 62, and Daniel died in 1875 at an approximate age of 68 (if he was born in 1807 as the census below indicates). Daniel's passing was recorded in the Keating-Ray family bible by presumably one of Mary Jane's adult children who had taken possession of the bible after her passing. This recording of Daniel McCormick's death would seem to indicate that he had been, at the very least, well accepted by the adult Ray children as a bona fide family member when he remarried their mother Mary Jane after Joseph Ray's passing in 1861. Mary Jane however was buried next to her first husband Joseph in the Hancock cemetery, probably because it seemed to be the logical thing to do at the time, to both Daniel and the adult Ray children. Daniel's gravesite, presumed to be in Hancock, has not been located as of 2011. It is possible that he returned to New York after Mary Jane's passing in 1872, as his brother James McCormick and some of James' sons were still living there, as well as perhaps Daniel's own offspring and grandchildren.
Prior to the deaths of Mary Jane and Daniel, the extended Ray and McCormick family had experienced enormous stress in the preceding years of 1868-72. There were happy occasions, with Mary Jane's adult children having many babies...But there were also terrible losses.
Mary Jane's oldest daughter Rosanna, age 38, gave birth to her eleventh or twelfth child in January of 1868, but then lost a nine year old son (Patrick Frederick) three months later in early April, of unknown causes. Rose's oldest child Louise Theresa, age 22, had given birth to Mary Jane's second great grandchild the year prior, in 1867, a little girl named Hattie. Hattie's older sister Ella had been born in 1865.
In 1869, a year after the loss of little Patrick Frederick, Mary Jane's second oldest son William's wife died during a trip to Missouri, leaving William a single father of two small boys. By the census of 1870, William and his sons had moved in with his wife's parents not far from Mary Jane and the rest of William's siblings.
More births and deaths followed in rapid succession. Louise Theresa gave birth to two more great granddaughters in 1870 and 1871. In September of 1871 Louise's youngest sibling was born when her mother Rose had her own last baby of thirteen at the age of 42. Rose's 32 year old sister Mary Jane had her sixth baby the same year, only to be widowed simultaneously. Rose's youngest brother Charles Ray had his first and only babies in 1870 and 1872. Sisters Elizabeth and Sarah, and their oldest brother John Ray, all had babies in 1873, the same year their mother Mary Jane died.
According to the Keating-Ray family bible, Daniel's nephew Hugh McCormick died sometime during the year 1871 of unknown causes, in Hancock or elsewhere. Hugh was married to Mary Jane's third daughter who had been named after her mother (Mary Jane Ray McCormick) who was left widowed at age 32 with six children under the age of 10, including a newborn. With this many small children to care for, someone had to have helped out - a role which likely initially fell heavily on grandmother Mary Jane and her husband Daniel. Daniel's brother James McCormick back in New York may have sent his youngest son Frank to live with or near Mary Jane in order to help her keep her farm intact. Later, one of Mary Jane's sons was sent to New York at the age of 12, but died there during an outbreak of diptheria in 1879.
The family continued to lose able-bodied men in the following year of 1872. In early summer within less than four weeks, matriarch Mary Jane lost both her son William and her oldest grandson John Louis McCormick, age 22, the unmarried son of her daughter Rosanna and her husband Thomas McCormick, a young uncle to Hugh. William died in a saw mill accident, and John Louis died of unknown causes.
Naturally Daniel would have grieved the loss of all of these family members along with Mary Jane, especially the loss of his two adult nephews Hugh and John Louis McCormick. He died just a few years later, in 1875.
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