. Baird's history of Clark County, Indiana. andhas been a staunch Republican since the organization of that party. HON. REUBEN DAILEY. A strong virile and picturesque personality, generous disposition and strongconvictions on important questions, were the traits that made this veteran editorof Jeffersonville influential at home and widely known abroad. During thedays of his activity his name was familiar all over the state and few of Indianasnewspaper men so impressed their individuality upon the public or were so fre-quently mentioned in the news columns. He was of foreign nativity of mixedEn
. Baird's history of Clark County, Indiana. andhas been a staunch Republican since the organization of that party. HON. REUBEN DAILEY. A strong virile and picturesque personality, generous disposition and strongconvictions on important questions, were the traits that made this veteran editorof Jeffersonville influential at home and widely known abroad. During thedays of his activity his name was familiar all over the state and few of Indianasnewspaper men so impressed their individuality upon the public or were so fre-quently mentioned in the news columns. He was of foreign nativity of mixedEnglish and Irish descent. Michael Dailey, the paternal grandfather, who wasa native of Queens county, Ireland, and a pronounced Roman Catholic, mar-ried a Miss Gibson, who was just as pronounced a Protestant, and reared allher sons in that faith. William Bird, the maternal grandfather, was an Eng-lishman by birth and a shoemaker by trade,; was of very religious tempera-ment, and composer of sacred music. He married Sarah Singleton, and Han-. REUBEN DAILY. BAIRDS HISTORY OF CLARK CO., IND. 529 nail Bird, a daughter of this union, became the wife of Nicholas A., son ofMichael Dailey. and this couple were the parents of the noted Indiana citizen,who constitutes the subject of this sketch. Reuben Dailey was bom at Tottenham, Middlesex county, England,March 6. 1844, being- the youngest of a family of nine children, of whom theonly daughter and four sons reached maturity. Reuben was strongly inclinedtowards a ministerial career, but his father offered violent opposition to thischoice, his argument being that preachers should not be educated in the or-dinary way. but depend on supernatural influence for their still quite young- Mr. Dailey came to the United States and spent sometime at Pittsburg and Cincinnati, but was living- at Newport, Kentucky, at thebreaking nut of the Civil war. ITe was eager to enlist, but met opposition onaccount of his youth, later, howeve
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