HISTORY OF KENTUCKY AND KENTUCKIANS, E. Polk Johnson, three volumes, Lewis
Publishing Co., New York & Chicago, 1912. Common version, 
Vol. III, pp. 1263-64.   [Bourbon County]

JOHN F. McDANIEL--An influential factor in connection with financial
affairs in Bourbon county and a scion of one of the sterling pioneer
families of Kentucky is John F. McDaniel, who is incumbent of the important
executive office of cashier of the Exchange Bank of Millersburg, one of the
substantial and popular monetary institutions of this part of the state.
Mr. McDaniel's career has been marked by energy, ambition and definite
purpose and his success and prestige represent the direct result of the
application of his own energies and talents, the while his course has been
so ordered as to gain and retain to him inviolable popular esteem.  As one
of the representative citizens and business men of Bourbon county he is
well entitled to specific recognition in this work, as is he also by reason
of his being a member of a family whose name has been worthily linked with
the history of Kentucky for many years.
     John F. McDaniel was born on a farm in Harrison county, Kentucky, on
the 15th of April, 1856, and is a son of Elisha and Kizziah (Coons)
McDaniel, the former of whom was born in Clark county, this state, on the
28th of March, 1821, and the latter was born in Harrison county on the
1st of August, 1829.  Elisha McDaniel was a son of George and Susan
(McDonald) McDaniel, both of whom were likewise natives of Kentucky, where
the respective families were founded prior to the opening of the nineteenth
century, the lineage of both being traced back to staunch Scottish origin.
George McDaniel established his residence in Harrison county, Kentucky, in
1832, and there both he and his wife continued to reside until their
death.  In that county was solemnized the marriage of Elisha McDaniel and
Kizziah Coons, in September, 1850.  Mrs. McDaniel was a daughter of John
and Rachel (Morgan) Coons, both of whom passed their entire lives in
Kentucky.  After his marriage Elisha McDaniel settled on the old Coons
homestead, in Harrison county, and he eventually became the owner of this
property.  There he continued to be actively identified with the
agricultural and stock-growing industries until his death, which occurred
on the 3d of November, 1893.  He was a man of impregnable integrity, and
his career was marked by earnest and worthy toil and endeavor.  His devoted
wife survived him by nearly a decade and was summoned to the life eternal
on the 12th of January, 1901.  They were survived by four children: George
S., who is a prosperous farmer of Harrison county; John F., whose name
initiates this sketch; Lillie M., who is the wife of George R. Burberry, of
Centerville, Bourbon county; and Charles M., is is successfully identified
with agricultural pursuits in Harrison county.
     John F. McDaniel gained his early experience in connection with the
work and management of the home farm, and his preliminary education was
secured in the common schools of his native county.  Even as a boy he
manifested definite ambition as a student and he made good use of the
advantages afforded him. For the gaining of advanced educational discipline
he realized that he must depend upon his own resources, and his ambition
was one of definite action.  When he was twenty years of age he passed the
required examination and secured a teacher's certificate, and during the
winter of 1879 he taught successfully in one of the district schools of
his native county.  For several years hereafter he devoted his attention
to pedagogic work during the winter term and was employed in farm work
during the summer seasons.  By this means he secured the funds that enabled
him to prosecute his higher academic studies in the Kentucky Wesleyan
College, at Millersburg, and later he attended the New Albany Business
College, at New Albany, Indiana.  As he made his own opportunities in the
educational field, he was fully appreciative of the same and applied
himself with all of diligence, thus admirably fitting himself with all of
the diligence, thus admirably fitting himself for the practical duties
and responsibilities of life.
     In 1883 Mr. McDaniel assumed the office of deputy county clerk of
Harrison county, and he retained this incumbency for four years, during
which time he resided in Cynthiana, the judicial center of the county. He
then secured the position of individual-deposit bookkeeper in the Farmers'
National Bank of Cynthiana, a position which he retained for six years, at
the expiration of which impaired health caused him to resign the same.
Thereafter he was identified with various pursuits until 1896, when he
engaged in the general merchandise business at Cynthiana, and he continued
in this line of enterprise until 1901, when he disposed of the business and
became one of the principals in effecting the organization of the Harrison
Deposit Bank at Cynthiana, in which institution he had charge of the
individual-deposit books until 1906, when he resigned the position to
accept that of cashier of the Exchange Bank of Millersburg.  He has since
continued in tenure of this office and through his careful and able
administration of the executive affairs of the institution he has done
much to further its success and popularity.  The bank is amply fortified
in capitalistic resources and in the personnel of its principals, and he
himself is a stockholder and director of the same.
     A man of broad mental ken and much intellectual power, Mr. McDaniel
naturally takes a lively interest in public affairs, and he is especially
loyal and progressive in his civic attitude.  He is ever ready to lend his
influence and co-operation in the support and measures and enterprises
tending to advance the social and material well-being of his home city and
county, and while he has been in no sense a seeker of political preferment
he accords a staunch support to the principles and policies for which the
Democratic part stands sponsor in a basic sense.  He is affiliated with the
Knights of Pythias and the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and he and his
wife hold membership in the Methodist Episcopal church South.
     In Bourbon county, Kentucky, on the 22d of October, 1884, Mr. McDaniel
was united in marriage to Miss Mary S. Batterton, who was born in this
county on the 2d of June, 1858, and who is a daughter of Benjamin A. and
Mary J. (George) Batterton, both of whom were likewise born in Kentucky.
Mr. and Mrs. McDaniel have five children, namely; Mary E., John F., Jr.,
Richard S, Kizziah M. and George.

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Harrison-KY Clark-KY

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