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From the Biographical Record of the Counties of Rock, Green, Grant, Iowa and Lafayette, Wisconsin, publ. 1901- page 705-706
DANIEL STANTON is a well-known stock and dairy farmer of the town of Harrison, Grant county, and is far along the highway of success. He is an earnest and ambitious man, and is willing to be industrious position in the world, and gain a competence that will make life easy in the years when work shall be forbidden him.
Mr. STANTON was born in the town of Harrison, Grant county, May 24, 1857, a son of S. W. and Catherine E. (McKEMMY) STANTON, the former born in New York in 1820, and the latter in Scotland. The parents came to Wisconsin, when they were young people, and here they were married and settled on the farm where their son Daniel now resides, and made it their home until 1892, when Mrs. Catherine STANTON died. After her death the bereaved husband moved into Platteville where he is still living. Five children were born to them. Janette, the eldest, was born in 1855, in Grant county, was educated in the Platteville schools, and became a successful teacher, but is now married and lives in Wood county, Wis., the mother of six children; Daniel; Martha, born in 1861, is now the wife of Peter HATFIELD, of Platteville; Phineas, born in 1863, now a farmer of Harrison, married Miss Adda WILLIS, and has one daughter, Dora; Grace, born in 1872, attended the Platteville Normal, and was a teacher for several years, and married Frank YERKE, a dentist in Iowa.
Daniel STANTON spent his boyhood and youth on the parental farm, and received his education from the district school. He has always followed farming, and regards it as the noblest occupation a man can follow. In May, 1879, Mr. STANTON wedded Miss Edith WITHROW, the estimable daughter of William and Martha WITHROW, an old pioneer family of Grant county. Her father was a native of Pennsylvania and her mother, Martha (COOPER), of Delaware. They came West at a very early day, and were married in 1840 at Potosi, Grant county, where they lived some years. Later in life they settled in the town of Paris, where he died in 1879, and she in 1885. They had eight children, of whom Mrs. Edith STANTON, the youngest, was born in December, 1859, and attained womanhood on the farm in the town of Paris. Mr. STANTON bought 120 acres adjoining his father's farm after his marriage, put up a comfortable home, and lived there until 1892, when he purchased the old homestead of 230 acres. He has recently erected a fine house, ample and commodious, with all the modern improvements, finished throughout with hard wood, and every convenience a modern farm house can demand. It is one of the most valuable and handsome residences in the entire town. Mr. and Mrs. STANTON are the parents of six children: Ernest, born in February 1880; Eldridge, in February 1882; Warner, in December 1884; Norman, in August 1886; and Virgil, in February 1895. Nellie, their only daughter, was born in May 1888; when she as eight years old she was accidentally shot through the spine by a neighbor boy, and for over three years she has been a great sufferer, having no use of her lower limbs, but is a bright and lovely young girl, and her misfortune is a constant grief to her friends and loving parents. The family are associated with the Congregational Church, and Mrs. STANTON and her children are members of that fold. The STANTONS, both father and son, are Republicans. They are prominent people and all their representatives are highly respected by all who know them.
William and Martha WITHROW had eight children: (1) John was born in Potosi, Wis., in 1841. He was a soldier in the Union army, enlisting in Company H, 25th Wis. V.I., and served throughout the Civil war. He married Miss Margaret WILSON, and settled on the old homestead in the town of Paris, where he died Jan. 6, 1890, leaving a wife and seven children. (2) Jane, deceased. (3) Rebecca, deceased wife of Payton VAUGHN, of Lemars, Iowa. (4) George, now a miner of the Klondike, while his wife and four children live in Chicago. (5) James, a conductor on the street cars in Omaha. (6) Wesley, married and is a farmer at Waukon, Iowa. (7) Lavinia, now the wife of Silas VANETTA, of Harrison. (8) Edith, the wife of Daniel STANTON. Mr. WITHROW and his wife were among the old pioneers, and were religious people, both being members of the Congregational Church.
This biography generously submitted by Carol Holmbeck