Danner, Daniel bio

History of Fulton County, Illinois; together with Sketches of its Cities, Villages and Townships, Educational, Religious, Civil, Military, and Political History; Portraits of Prominent Persons and Biographies of Representative Citizens. Chas. C. Chapman & Co., Peoria, Illinois, 1879, page 946, Woodland Township
Daniel Danner, farmer, was born in Penn. June 16, 1842, son of Henry Danner, who was born in Pa., where he married Catharine Lennif, by whom he had 8 children. Daniel, the 5th child, grew to manhood in Pa., where he received a liberal education and followed farming; 14 years ago he landed in Fulton county, where he has since resided; in 1865 he married Miss Eliza Shaffer, a daughter of John Shaffer, of Pa.; of this marriage 5 children were born, 3 of whom are living, - Alice, Moses and Laura.