Kansas History and Heritage Project- Saline County

Saline County Bios
"Portrait and Biographical Record of Dickinson, Saline, McPherson and Marion Counties," 1893



DANIEL DONMYER, a well-known farmer residing on section 25, Cambria Township, Saline County, claims Pennsylvania as the State of his nativity. He was born in Cambria County, November 16, 1839, and is a brother of S. P Donmyer, whose sketch appears elsewhere in this work. No event of special importance occurred during his childhood days, which were quietly passed upon his father's farm. As soon as old enough to follow the plow he engaged in farm labor during the summer months, while in the winter season he attended the common schools. Under the parental roof he remained until twenty-six years of age and was then married to Miss Jane Murphy.

Farming has been his chief occupation throughout life. He followed that pursuit for some years in the Keystone State and then decided to try his fortune in Kansas. He has been a resident of Saline County since 1876. In that year he purchased his present farm of one hundred and sixty acres, for which he paid $2,300, and it has since been his home. He has made many good improvements upon it. It is surrounded by a wire fence, the fields are well tilled, the buildings are such as are found on a model farm, and the neat appearance of the place indicates the thrift and enterprise of the owner, who is one of the substantial and progressive agriculturists of the community.

After a short married life of six years, Mr. Donmyer was called upon to mourn the loss of his wife, who died about 1871, leaving three children: William, who is now occupied in farming in this county; Laura, wife of Jacob Stauffer, of Cambria Township and one since deceased.

After two years, Mr. Donmyer was again married, his second union being with Miss Mary M. Seese, also a native of Cambria County, Pa. Their union has been blessed with four children, John, Albert, Daniel and Jacob, who are all yet at home. The parents are members of the English Lutheran Church, and Mr. Donmyer exercises his right of franchise in support of the Democratic party. By his industry and enterprise he has accumulated a comfortable competence and now has a nice farm, well improved, on the line of the Union Pacific Railroad. He is a straightforward, upright business man who has won the confidence and good-will of all with whom he has come in contact. His life has been well and worthily spent and he is highly esteemed for his sterling worth.





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