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Surnames: Jones, Dailey, Johnson, Hawkins, Moser, Hawley, Morgan, Suer, Voltz, Roush,
Flueckinger, Grilo, Skelton, Rawley
Classification: Biography
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This book has no cover, and no index, and no author. I bought it on Ebay; it just has the
insides, but it is full of Indiana biographies. I am not researching this family, just
thought I would share. I do not know anymore about these families or these surnames. NOTE:
I don’t know if there is any additional mention of this family in the book, it has no
index. I do not want to sell this book. I am typing the biographies from it.
Typed by Lora Radiches:
Surnames in this biography are: Jones, Dailey, Johnson, Hawkins, Moser, Hawley, Morgan,
Suer, Voltz, Roush, Flueckinger, Grilo, Skelton, Rawley,
DANIEL DAILEY JONES, physician and surgeon, was one of the first representatives of
the regular or Allopathic School of Medicine to locate in the Swiss settlement of Berne,
and that community during the past thirty years has kept him in high honor both as a
professional man and citizen. Doctor Jones since 1914 has had as his associate his
brother, Harry O. Jones, in the firm of Jones & Jones, physicians and surgeons. They
have large and well-equipped offices, and their personal skill is supplemented by all the
apparatus for X-ray, ultra-violet and electro-therapeutic agencies. Daniel Dailey Jones
was born in Van Wert County, Ohio, March 4, 1871. His father, Benjamin Jones, was born in
Holmes County, Ohio, January 17, 1837. He was descended from a branch of the Jones family
that came to America with Lord Baltimore’s colony in 1634 and settled on the site of the
present City of Baltimore. Benjamin Jones spent his life as a farmer, and died January 26,
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903, being buried at Wren, Ohio. He married Miss Dailey, who was born in Adams County,
Indiana, November 12, 1846. The Dailey family came from Ireland about 1700 and settled at
Boston, Massachusetts. In a later generation was Thomas Dailey, who became a sea captain.
He left the port of Boston in 1800, and it is supposed that his ship was destroyed by
pirates, who were numerous on the high seas at that time. After waiting at Boston
for a long time his widow moved with her family to Southeastern Ohio in 1810. Her
only son, Thomas Dailey, Jr., became a farmer and stock raiser there and was
married in Ohio. Of his ten children one was James Dailey, the maternal grandfather of
Doctor Jones. James Dailey settled in Adams County, Indiana, in 1839, and in 1840
married Mary Johnson, who came from Ohio. They likewise had a family of ten children, the
oldest daughter being Mrs. Mary Dailey Jones, who at the age of eighty-three makes her
home at Wren, Ohi!
o. She and her husband had a family of thirteen children: Emma, born July 6, 1867, is the
wife of George Hawkins, a farmer at Wren, Ohio; Eva, born March 7, 1869, is the widow of
Nelson Moser and lives at Wren; Daniel Dailey is the third in age; Esaias, born April 23,
1872, a farmer near Decatur, Indiana, married Mary Hawley; Benjamin 0., born March 11,
1874, in the nursery business at Citronelle, Alabama, married Esther Morgan, of Van Wert,
Ohio; James Jones died in infancy; Charles J., born April 30, 1880, a farmer living at
Berne, married Ethel Suer, of Mercer, Ohio; Harry 0., born August 6, 1881, is a graduate
of the Chicago College of Medicine and Surgery, was overseas during the World war, doing
X-ray work at base hospitals at Orleans and later at Paris; Mary A., born February 2,
1884, is the wife of Charles Voltz, of Ohio City, Ohio; Harland H., born June 1, 1887, a
farmer, married Ida Roush, of Fort Wayne; Clarence C., born March 26, 1889, a farmer near
Wren, married!
Ida Flueckinger, of Berne; Fred C., born June 23, 1891, is unmarried and lives on a farm
at Wren, Ohio; and Clara A., born December 17, 1893, is the widow of Edward Grilo
and lives with her mother at Wren. Daniel Dailey Jones was reared in his native County of
Ohio, attended common schools there, the Normal School at Middlepoint, and was graduated
in 1892 from the Northern Indiana Normal College at Valparaiso. For thirteen years he was
engaged in teaching, his teaching work being in the three states of Indiana, Ohio
and Iowa. He then entered the Northwestern University School of Medicine at Chicago, was
graduated M. D. in 1909 and had his interne training and experience in the South Chicago
Hospital. Doctor Jones located at Berne in 1910 and has enjoyed a wide and extensive
practice and has been devoted to the interest of his community steadily through all the
years except the time he was in the military service during the World war. He was
commissioned a fi!
rst lieutenant in the Army Medical Corps, was sent to the Medical Officers’ Training
School at Fort Riley, Kansas, was assigned to the Ninetieth Division, spent some time at
Camp Travis, Texas, and in June, 1918, went overseas. He commanded the Ambulance Section
of the Three Hundred Fifteenth Sanitary Train with the Ninetieth Division, and was in the
Saint Mihiel and Meuse Argonne campaigns, being on the front line when the armistice was
signed November 11, 1918. He then accompanied the division to the Rhine with the Army of
Occupation and in February, 1919, was transferred as an instructor in the A. E. F.
University at Beaun, France. Doctor Jones returned home May 14, 1919, and was honorably
discharged with the rank of major on July 5, 1919. At the present time he holds the rank
of colonel in the Medical Officers Reserve Corps. Doctor Jones married, March 25, 1896,
Miss Sarah Skelton. She was born and reared in Missouri Valley, Iowa. She died in 1900 and
is buried a!
t Missouri Valley. The two children of this union died in infancy. Doctor Jones on August
3, 1911, married Maggie P. Rawley, of Berne. She was born and reared in this locality of
Adams County. Doctor and Mrs. Jones have three children: Robert L., born June 11, 1913,
and Rawley D., born August 15, 1915, both students in the Berne High School; and Benjamin
XV., born May 22, 1921, who is attending grade school. Doctor Jones and his family are
members of the Evangelical Church of Berne. He is a thirty-second degree Scottish Rite
Mason, member of the Knights of Pythias, Modern Woodmen of America, American Legion, and
the Adams County and Indiana State Medical Associations. He is secretary of the local
board of health, is a member of the Commercial Club and a Republican in politics.