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DANIEL Q. BURLEY, born September. 1821. in Caledonia county, Vermont; parents born in New Hampshire; removed
to New Hampshire with his parents when a child; received a common school education, and remained on a farm till
the age of twenty two years, when he went into a cotton-factory and worked three years. At the age of twenty four
years he married Miss Naomi Randlett, of New Hampshire; removed to Quincy, Massachusetts, in 1846 and learned the
trade of stone cutting, which he followed for five years; removed back to New Hampshire and remained there until
he joined the "Western Farm and Village Association" and came out with the first colony to Minnesota
City on May 18, 1852. His family remained behind, but joined him in about two and a half years. Mrs. Burley died
in 1856, when he married Ann Rowley, a native of England, who is still living. Mr. Burley, in 1863, enlisted in
Co. B. 7th reg. Minn. Inf., and participated in all the battles in which that regiment was engaged until the close
of the war, when he was discharged. Mr. Burley has had eight children, five of whom are still living. Mr. Burley
owns about 375 acres, which is in Sec. 35, T. 108, R. 8.
FROM:
The History of Winona County
Together with Biographical Matter, Statistics, Etc.
BY: A. T. Andreas
H. H. Hill and Company, Publishers
Chicago 1883.
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