Daniel Leonidas McGary, deceased, was born at Madisonville, Ky, in Jan, 1834, and died in Beaumont, Tex, Apr 22, 1902. His ancestors were among the pioneers of Kentucky. His great grandfather, Hugh McGary, accompanied Daniel Boone to the "dark and bloody ground" and took the first Bibles into that section. The parents of Daniel L McGary died when he was very young, and when old enough he was sent to St Louis and placed in the commercial house of relatives, where he clerked by day and studied law by night.
After finishing his law studies, he removed to Nebraska territory, and May 10, 1855, was appointed the first United States district attorney of Nebraska territory for the southern district. According to his son, he was intimately associated with J Sterling Morton and for a time assisted in the publication of the Nebraska City News.
In the later '50s Mr McGary was married to Mrs RL Jackley, a widow, and the two, with their possessions in wagons, migrated to Uvalde, Tex, then an extreme frontier town. Here McGary practiced law and fought Indians until the Civil War commenced, when he moved his wife and two children to the home of Tacitus Clay, an uncle living at Independence, Tex, and enlisted in the Confederate army. He fought until the close of the war, was several times wounded, but was never captured and never surrendered. He returned home, and remained until his death an unreconstructed rebel.
Immediately after the war he established a weekly newspaper at Brenham, Tex, calling it the Southern Banner, the stars and bars being conspicuous in the headlines. He made life miserable for the carpet baggers who flocked to Washington county after the war, and was eventually thrown in jail for alleged inciting of rebellion. While in jail he was fed by the white people of Brenham, and continued to edit his paper from behind the bars. Later the "military boss" of the city detached a file of soldiers who burned the Banner office, and the same fire destroyed the entire business portion of the city, for which citizens of Brenham have unsuccessfully endeavored to secure relief from Congress.
Mr McGary also established a newspaper in Galveston and was for many years editor and proprietor of the Houston Age, a paper which had a national reputation, although insignificant in size. Throughout the state he was known as "Uncle Dan'l," and counted among his personal friends the most distinguished citizens of Texas.
His wife died in Mar, 1902, and he never recovered from the shock of her death, and followed her to a grave in Magnolia cemetery, Beaumont, just four weeks later. Four children survive: Samuel H McGary, principal owner and manager of the Daily and Sunday Journal, Beaumont, Tex; Mrs SW Foster, of Beaumont; Percy M, publisher of the Sentinel, Cold Springs, Tex; and Mrs Eugene Baker, who resides in New Mexico.
-Illustrated History of Nebraska by J Sterling Morton and Albert Watkins
After finishing his law studies, he removed to Nebraska territory, and May 10, 1855, was appointed the first United States district attorney of Nebraska territory for the southern district. According to his son, he was intimately associated with J Sterling Morton and for a time assisted in the publication of the Nebraska City News.
In the later '50s Mr McGary was married to Mrs RL Jackley, a widow, and the two, with their possessions in wagons, migrated to Uvalde, Tex, then an extreme frontier town. Here McGary practiced law and fought Indians until the Civil War commenced, when he moved his wife and two children to the home of Tacitus Clay, an uncle living at Independence, Tex, and enlisted in the Confederate army. He fought until the close of the war, was several times wounded, but was never captured and never surrendered. He returned home, and remained until his death an unreconstructed rebel.
Immediately after the war he established a weekly newspaper at Brenham, Tex, calling it the Southern Banner, the stars and bars being conspicuous in the headlines. He made life miserable for the carpet baggers who flocked to Washington county after the war, and was eventually thrown in jail for alleged inciting of rebellion. While in jail he was fed by the white people of Brenham, and continued to edit his paper from behind the bars. Later the "military boss" of the city detached a file of soldiers who burned the Banner office, and the same fire destroyed the entire business portion of the city, for which citizens of Brenham have unsuccessfully endeavored to secure relief from Congress.
Mr McGary also established a newspaper in Galveston and was for many years editor and proprietor of the Houston Age, a paper which had a national reputation, although insignificant in size. Throughout the state he was known as "Uncle Dan'l," and counted among his personal friends the most distinguished citizens of Texas.
His wife died in Mar, 1902, and he never recovered from the shock of her death, and followed her to a grave in Magnolia cemetery, Beaumont, just four weeks later. Four children survive: Samuel H McGary, principal owner and manager of the Daily and Sunday Journal, Beaumont, Tex; Mrs SW Foster, of Beaumont; Percy M, publisher of the Sentinel, Cold Springs, Tex; and Mrs Eugene Baker, who resides in New Mexico.
-Illustrated History of Nebraska by J Sterling Morton and Albert Watkins
Daniel Leonidas McGary, deceased, was born at Madisonville, Ky, in Jan, 1834, and died in Beaumont, Tex, Apr 22, 1902. His ancestors were among the pioneers of Kentucky. His great grandfather, Hugh McGary, accompanied Daniel Boone to the "dark and bloody ground" and took the first Bibles into that section. The parents of Daniel L McGary died when he was very young, and when old enough he was sent to St Louis and placed in the commercial house of relatives, where he clerked by day and studied law by night.
After finishing his law studies, he removed to Nebraska territory, and May 10, 1855, was appointed the first United States district attorney of Nebraska territory for the southern district. According to his son, he was intimately associated with J Sterling Morton and for a time assisted in the publication of the Nebraska City News.
In the later '50s Mr McGary was married to Mrs RL Jackley, a widow, and the two, with their possessions in wagons, migrated to Uvalde, Tex, then an extreme frontier town. Here McGary practiced law and fought Indians until the Civil War commenced, when he moved his wife and two children to the home of Tacitus Clay, an uncle living at Independence, Tex, and enlisted in the Confederate army. He fought until the close of the war, was several times wounded, but was never captured and never surrendered. He returned home, and remained until his death an unreconstructed rebel.
Immediately after the war he established a weekly newspaper at Brenham, Tex, calling it the Southern Banner, the stars and bars being conspicuous in the headlines. He made life miserable for the carpet baggers who flocked to Washington county after the war, and was eventually thrown in jail for alleged inciting of rebellion. While in jail he was fed by the white people of Brenham, and continued to edit his paper from behind the bars. Later the "military boss" of the city detached a file of soldiers who burned the Banner office, and the same fire destroyed the entire business portion of the city, for which citizens of Brenham have unsuccessfully endeavored to secure relief from Congress.
Mr McGary also established a newspaper in Galveston and was for many years editor and proprietor of the Houston Age, a paper which had a national reputation, although insignificant in size. Throughout the state he was known as "Uncle Dan'l," and counted among his personal friends the most distinguished citizens of Texas.
His wife died in Mar, 1902, and he never recovered from the shock of her death, and followed her to a grave in Magnolia cemetery, Beaumont, just four weeks later. Four children survive: Samuel H McGary, principal owner and manager of the Daily and Sunday Journal, Beaumont, Tex; Mrs SW Foster, of Beaumont; Percy M, publisher of the Sentinel, Cold Springs, Tex; and Mrs Eugene Baker, who resides in New Mexico.
-Illustrated History of Nebraska by J Sterling Morton and Albert Watkins
After finishing his law studies, he removed to Nebraska territory, and May 10, 1855, was appointed the first United States district attorney of Nebraska territory for the southern district. According to his son, he was intimately associated with J Sterling Morton and for a time assisted in the publication of the Nebraska City News.
In the later '50s Mr McGary was married to Mrs RL Jackley, a widow, and the two, with their possessions in wagons, migrated to Uvalde, Tex, then an extreme frontier town. Here McGary practiced law and fought Indians until the Civil War commenced, when he moved his wife and two children to the home of Tacitus Clay, an uncle living at Independence, Tex, and enlisted in the Confederate army. He fought until the close of the war, was several times wounded, but was never captured and never surrendered. He returned home, and remained until his death an unreconstructed rebel.
Immediately after the war he established a weekly newspaper at Brenham, Tex, calling it the Southern Banner, the stars and bars being conspicuous in the headlines. He made life miserable for the carpet baggers who flocked to Washington county after the war, and was eventually thrown in jail for alleged inciting of rebellion. While in jail he was fed by the white people of Brenham, and continued to edit his paper from behind the bars. Later the "military boss" of the city detached a file of soldiers who burned the Banner office, and the same fire destroyed the entire business portion of the city, for which citizens of Brenham have unsuccessfully endeavored to secure relief from Congress.
Mr McGary also established a newspaper in Galveston and was for many years editor and proprietor of the Houston Age, a paper which had a national reputation, although insignificant in size. Throughout the state he was known as "Uncle Dan'l," and counted among his personal friends the most distinguished citizens of Texas.
His wife died in Mar, 1902, and he never recovered from the shock of her death, and followed her to a grave in Magnolia cemetery, Beaumont, just four weeks later. Four children survive: Samuel H McGary, principal owner and manager of the Daily and Sunday Journal, Beaumont, Tex; Mrs SW Foster, of Beaumont; Percy M, publisher of the Sentinel, Cold Springs, Tex; and Mrs Eugene Baker, who resides in New Mexico.
-Illustrated History of Nebraska by J Sterling Morton and Albert Watkins
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