OCHILTREE, Thomas Peck, a Representative from Texas; born in Nacogdoches, Nacogdoches County, Tex., October 26, 1837; attended the public schools; volunteered in 1854 as a private in Capt. John G. Walker’s company of Texas Rangers in the campaign against the Apache and Comanche Indians in 1854 and 1855; admitted to the bar by special act of the Texas Legislature in 1857; clerk of the State house of representatives 1856-1859; secretary of the State Democratic convention in 1859; editor of the Jeffersonian in 1860 and 1861; delegate to the Democratic National Conventions at Charleston, S.C., and Baltimore, Md., in 1860; during the Civil War enlisted in the Confederate Army in the First Texas Regiment and was promoted successively to lieutenant, captain, and major; editor of the Houston Daily Telegraph 1866 and 1867; appointed commissioner of immigration for Texas in Europe 1870-1873; appointed United States marshal for the eastern district of Texas by President Grant January 8, 1874; elected as an Independent to the Forty-eighth Congress (March 4, 1883-March 3, 1885); moved to New York City and retired; died at Hot Springs, Bath County, Va., on November 25, 1902; interment in Greenwood Cemetery, Brooklyn, N.Y.; reinterment in Mount Hope Cemetery, Westchester County, N.Y., November 8, 1903. Son of William Ochiltree   Murt Dailey. who is prominently known as one of the efficient commissioners of .Cloud county as well as a valued citizen, came to Kansas in the autumn of 1876, and located a claim in Jewell county which he sold in 1882 and bought a farm in Summit township where he engaged in agricultural and stock-raising pursuits with marked success. His efforts were so well rewarded that he removed to Ochiltree county. Texas, 1886. where he could pasture his increasing herds over a larger territory. Success followed him there, but owing to financial reverses he lost money in the removal. Nothing could foreshadow his old love for Kansas, hence in 1894 he returned, and after one year in Jewell county purchased one of the finest farms in Summit township, lying in that magnificent stretch of country adjacent to Scottsville. Mr. Dailey was born in County Kerry. Ireland, in 1848. He emigrated to America with his parents, Frances and Johanna (Casey) Dailey. and settled in southern Iowa. Appanoose county, when that country was in a pioneer state. They subsequently removed to Missouri. Francis Dailey lived to see his entire family grown and established in homes of their own. The mother died in 1898, in Beloit, at the home of Dr. Dailey, a brother of our subject. Mr. Dailey is a veteran of the civil war, enlisting December 15, 1863 hi Company D. First Missouri Cavalry. He was but fifteen years and three months old when he joined the army. Company D, along with fragments of other companies, were merged into Company A. First Missouri Cavalry. Their warfare consisted principally in guarding against the raids of the Younger and James boys. They were in a general engagement against James Murt Dailey. General Price in his last invasion. Mr. Dailey says, he "did not miss any of the show" but was engaged in active service the entire time. His company was mustered out at Benton Barracks, Missouri on July n, 1865. Mr. Dailey's first wife was Elizabeth Stevens, who died in the autumn of 1886, leaving thirteen children, ten of whom are living, four daughters and six sons. He was married in 1888 to Miss Nora Griffin, his present wife. The Daileys are members of the Catholic church. Mirrella. the eldest daughter is a sister in the convent at Leavenworth, Kansas. Mr. Dailey has always been prominent in politics and has filled various public offices. During the latter part of the seventies he was elected trustee of Jewell county and commissioner in 1880, having served ahout two years of the term (of three years) when he removed to. Cloud county. While in Texas he was elected county treasurer of Ochiltree county. In 1901 was elected to his present office. He has served on the school board continuously wherever he has lived, one of the best references a man can give. He is an active member of the Grand Army of the Republic. Mr. Dailey is a good citizen, an excellent nimager. hence well qualified for his responsible position, the duties of which he is ably discharging.