History of Bourbon, Scott, Harrison and Nicholas Counties, Kentucky, ed.
by William Henry Perrin,  O. L. Baskin & Co., Chicago, 1882.  p. 671.
[Harrison County]   [Cynthiana City and Precinct]

DANIEL McSHANE, farmer, P. O. Cynthiana, is a son of Daniel and Nancy
(Talbert) McShane; his father was a native of New Jersey, and the son of
Edward and Catharine (Dunham) McShane, who emigrated to Virginia when
David was ten years of age, where he remained with his parents until he
was seventeen years old, when he removed to Harrison County, Ky., in the
year of 1798, when he commenced business for himself by following the
occupation of farming, continuing the same to the time of his death,
which occurred in 1856.  In about the year 1802 he was married to Miss
Nancy Talbert, a native of Virginia, who bore him six children of whom
was Daniel, our subject.  He was born in Harrison County, Ky., April 19,
1832, and in 1867 married Miss Mary Martin, a native of Harrison County,
and daughter of Edmond and Elizabeth Martin.  By this union they were
blessed with one child--Minnie F., now living at home.  His wife died in
1872, aged twenty-four years.  Mr. McShane has always been a hard working
man, and has succeeded in getting a good property.  He is the owner of
385 acres of choice land.  He is a member of the Presbyterian Church and
is a Democrat.

McShane Talbert Dunham Martin
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NJ VA

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