Milton J. Daniels, Date of Birth, Date of Death

    

Milton J. Daniels

US Congressman

Date of Birth: 18-Apr-1838

Date of Death: 01-Dec-1914

Profession: politician, horticulturist

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Aries


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About Milton J. Daniels

  • Milton John Daniels (April 18, 1838 – December 1, 1914) was a U.S.
  • Representative from California. Born in Cobleskill (village), New York, Daniels attended the public schools.
  • His family moved to Bradford County, Pennsylvania, and he worked with his father in the lumber business.
  • He moved to Rochester, Minnesota, in 1856, and was appointed deputy postmaster of Rochester in 1859.
  • In 1860 he entered Middlebury Academy, Wyoming County, New York. During the Civil War he volunteered for service on April 23, 1861.
  • Returning to Minnesota in August 1862, he raised a company and was commissioned second lieutenant of Company F, Ninth Regiment, Minnesota Volunteers.
  • During the Indian War of 1862, he took command of the Third Minnesota Mounted Infantry.
  • In 1863, he joined his company at St.
  • Louis in 1863, and was commissioned captain.
  • In March 1865 was commissioned captain and commissary of subsistence by President Lincoln. After the war he returned to Minnesota and engaged in banking.
  • Later he served as member of the State house of representatives from 1882-1886 and in the State senate from 1886-1890.
  • He also served as president of the Minnesota State Board of Asylums for the Insane from 1882-1888. He moved to California in 1889 and located in Riverside where he engaged in horticultural pursuits. Daniels was elected as a Republican to the Fifty-eighth Congress (March 4, 1903 – March 3, 1905).
  • He did not run for renomination to the Fifty-ninth Congress. He resumed his occupation as horticulturist in Riverside until his death there on December 1, 1914. He was interred in Evergreen Cemetery.

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