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Daniel Muir

1804-1885

• Daniel Muir was John Muir's father. He was born on October 6, 1885 in Manchester, England. He married the woman who would become John Muir's mother, Ann Gilrye in 1833 in Dunbar, Scotland. He died on October 6, 1885 in Kansas City, Missouri, U.S.A..

• Daniel Muir had a sister, Mary, born in 1793, who married Hamilton Blakely (or Blackley). It appears Mary and Hamilton also emigrated from Scotland to the U.S., and settled near Portage close to her brother Daniel Muir, and had at least one son named Daniel Muir Blackley who was John Muir's first cousin.

• John Muir had seven brothers and sisters. One of his brothers was also named "Daniel."

• Daniel Muir took his family to Wisconsin to build a farm in 1849.

• Daniel Muir is known as being a hard task-master to his family, in particular John. See Muir's The Story of My Boyhood and Youth.

• Daniel was buried in Elmwood Cemetery in 1885 in Kansas City, Missouri. A new headstone was installed in 2004. See Daniel Muir Gravesite.

• John Muir wrote an Obituary of his father in 1885.

• See also Genealogy of John Muir

 

Image: Daniel Muir, painted from memory after his death by his daughter Mary Muir Hand - from Son of the Wilderness: The Life of John Muir by Linnie Marsh Wolfe, (Alfred A.Knopf, Inc. 1945)

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