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Robert Lee Daniel

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Robert Lee Daniel

Birth
Cadeville, Ouachita Parish, Louisiana, USA
Death
23 Sep 1958 (aged 90)
Victoria, Victoria County, Texas, USA
Burial
Victoria, Victoria County, Texas, USA Add to Map
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DANIEL, ROBERT LEE
Robert Lee Daniel, county attorney of Victoria County, has been a member of the Victoria bar since 1898 and is also interested in business affairs, being president and a director of the Victoria Safe & Lock Company, and treasurer and a director of the Victoria Creamery Company.
He was born near Monroe, Louisiana, December 27, 1867, but was reared in Texas. He received his early education in the country schools of Red River County, then attended the high school at Honey Grove two years, and was graduated from the Southwestern University at Georgetown in 1891 with the degree of B. S. While teaching school the following year he also read law with M. L. Sims and E. S. Chambers, of Clarksville, and in 1892 was admitted to practice by examination before District Judge E. D. McClellan, of Bonham. For six years he was in practice at Clarksville, and in that time served one term as city attorney. He located at Victoria in 1898. He was a justice of the peace for a time, and in 1906 was elected to the office of county attorney and re-elected in 1908. He affiliates with the Knights of Pythias, the A. O. U. W. and Victoria Lodge, No. 729, B. P. O. E., and is a member of the Methodist church.
He married, in 1893, Miss Nannie Stoner, a daughter of G. Overton Stoner, of Victoria. They have five children: Vivian, Robert L., Jr., William Overton, Zilpah and Stoner.
Mr. Daniel's father is William C. Daniel, now residing in Clarksville, Texas, and still actively engaged in farming. Historical Review of South-East Texas and the Founders, Leaders and Representative Men, Vol 2, by Dermot Hardy and Maj. Ingham S. Robert, by The Lewis Publishing Company, Chicago, 1910
DANIEL, ROBERT LEE
Robert Lee Daniel, county attorney of Victoria County, has been a member of the Victoria bar since 1898 and is also interested in business affairs, being president and a director of the Victoria Safe & Lock Company, and treasurer and a director of the Victoria Creamery Company.
He was born near Monroe, Louisiana, December 27, 1867, but was reared in Texas. He received his early education in the country schools of Red River County, then attended the high school at Honey Grove two years, and was graduated from the Southwestern University at Georgetown in 1891 with the degree of B. S. While teaching school the following year he also read law with M. L. Sims and E. S. Chambers, of Clarksville, and in 1892 was admitted to practice by examination before District Judge E. D. McClellan, of Bonham. For six years he was in practice at Clarksville, and in that time served one term as city attorney. He located at Victoria in 1898. He was a justice of the peace for a time, and in 1906 was elected to the office of county attorney and re-elected in 1908. He affiliates with the Knights of Pythias, the A. O. U. W. and Victoria Lodge, No. 729, B. P. O. E., and is a member of the Methodist church.
He married, in 1893, Miss Nannie Stoner, a daughter of G. Overton Stoner, of Victoria. They have five children: Vivian, Robert L., Jr., William Overton, Zilpah and Stoner.
Mr. Daniel's father is William C. Daniel, now residing in Clarksville, Texas, and still actively engaged in farming. Historical Review of South-East Texas and the Founders, Leaders and Representative Men, Vol 2, by Dermot Hardy and Maj. Ingham S. Robert, by The Lewis Publishing Company, Chicago, 1910


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