In almost every instance, those who, during the first half of the present century, laid about the waterfalls of New Hampshire the foundations of our manufacturing villages, builded better than they knew. They were generally men of limited ambitions and means, and established their factories without the expectation that they were changing worthless plains and forests into cities or plain mechanics into millionaires. They aimed only to create productive industries and win a fair reward for their labor.  But they were skillfull workmen, and under their inspiration and direction their enterprises have grown into great owners and called into being communities that are models of the best that skill and thrift can produce.
    To this class belonged Kendall O. and James L. Peabody and Jeremiah F. Daniell, who, over fifty years ago, built a paper-mill in the forest that then grew about the falls on the Winnipiseogee where the wealthy, wide-awake and beautiful village of Franklin Falls now stands.
    The Peabodys built a small mill at this point about the year 1828.  Their knowledge of the paper business was very limited, their experiment was not at first a success; but they were men not easily turned from their purposes.  They secured the services of a practical paper-maker, jeremiah F. Daniell, who knew the business thoroughly, and was by education, as well as by natural abilities, well qualified to prove an efficient helper to men who, like the Peabodys, were trying to establish a new enterprise in the face of many discouragements.  He had worked at his trade in Pepperell, he married Sarah Reed, of Harvard Mass., by whom he had two children,- Warren F., the subject of this sketch, who was born June 26, 1826, and mary, who died in infancy.
    On going to Franklin he was given an interest in the business and became a permanent resident.  In the face of many obstacles, he secured from South Windham, Conn., a newly-invented paper-machine, which was transported across the country by two eight horse teams and set up ready for business. Mr. Daniell purchased the interest of J.L. Peabody, and the firm became Peabody & Daniell.  The machinery was scarcely in position when a fire destroyed the factory and its contents, leaving the owners bankrupt in nearly everything but courage and a determination to succeed, which enabled them to finally rebuild and proceed in a small way with their business.
    The erection of the cotton-mills at Manchester gave them an opportunity to purchase large amounts of paper stock at low prices, and from that time they were moderately prosperous.  The next year after the removal of Mr. Daniell from Massachusetts his wife died, and a year later he married Annette Eastman, of Concord.  His son, Warren F., was at that time a wide-awake boy of ten years.  He had picked up a little knowledge in the Massachusetts schools, and that he might be further educated without much expense, was sent to Concord, where he worked upon a farm for his board and clothes and the privilege of attending school a short time each winter, until, at the age of fourteen, he was called home and entered the paper-mill as an apprentice to learn the business with which his name is now so prominently identified.  It was his purpose, at a later period, to attend the academy at Tilton; but on the day on which the term began his father was severely burned, and Warren F. was obliged to take his place in the mill, where he became master of the trade in all its branches.  As a journeyman, his wages were one dollard and twenty-five cents per day.  Warren F. was ambitious at some time to have a mill of his own, and with this object in view, he went to Waterville, Me., and with other parties erected and ran a paper-mill at that place, when, a year later, he took charge of a mill at Ppperell, Mass., where he remained until 1854, at which time his father bought out Mr. Peabody and asked his son to join him at Franklin, which he did, and the firm became J. F. Daniell & Son, and under that name was for ten years prosperous and successful.  In 1864, Warren F. bought his father's interest and became sole proprietor, and so continued until in 1870, when the mill property, which had grown to be one of the largest and best-known private manufacturing establishments in the State, was sold to a company of Massachusetts capitalists, who organized as the Winnipisogee Paper Company.  Mr. Daniell then became connected with a large paper-house in Boston; but soon tiring of city life, returned to Franklin, and, with a large interest in the company, became its resident agent and manager, which position he still occupies.  This company owns large paper-mills supplied with the best machinery, employs three hundred hands and produces about twenty tons of paper daily, and in its large measure of success is a monument to the sagacity and enterprise of the man who plans and directs its operations, who, without the help of a liberal education, has won his way by hard and patient work to a first place among the business men of the State.  While compassing his own success, Mr. Daneill has contributed much to that of others, and in his struggle upward has pulled no one down.
     The business world acknowledges him as a man of undoubted integrity, thoroughly responsible and eminently successful; a genial man whose good fellowship never tires, and whose hospitality and generosity are inexhaustible.  In 1850, Mr. Daniell married, Elizabeth D. Rundlett, of Stratham, and had one child, Harry W.  She died in Pepperell in 1854.  He married, second, Abbile A. Sanger, of Concord, October 1860, from which union there are Eugene S., Otis, Warren F., Jr., and Jerie R.
    Mr. Daniell is much interested in agriculture, and owns a large farm, which is under a high state of cultivation.  He has long been the owner of the best herd of Jersey cattle in the State.  His stables contain some of the finest horses; he admires a good dog, and is skillful breeder of swine and poultry.  he has contributed much to the introduction of improved stock, crops and farm machinery in his neighborhood; has been active and liberal in sustaining the State and local agricultural societies, and in otherwise promoting the farming interest.
    In politics Mr. Daniell is a Democrat, and such has been his popularity at home that he has represented his town, which is Republican, several times in the Legislature, and was twice chosen Senator in a district which no other Democrat could have carried.  He represented his party in the National Convention of 1872, and has always been one of its trusted counselors and efficient workers, and but for his refusal would have been its candidate for Governor and for Congress.
     During the war he gave himself to the cause of the Union as represented by the "boys in blue" voting to raise and equip all the men who were needed, giving liberally to provide for them and their families and supporting by word and deed on all occasions the cause for which they fought.