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Daniel Boone Markham

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Daniel Boone Markham

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Sandusky County, Ohio, USA
Death
unknown
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Silverton, Marion County, Oregon, USA Add to Map
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Daniel Markham was a farmer and raised cattle in Marion County, Oregon. Besides Oregon, he had resided in Kansas for two years and then Idaho for seventeen years. Daniel arrived in Oregon "the last of September, 1850". When the 1850 Census was taken, Daniel was living in Clakamus County, Oregon, with his parents and five siblings, John, Warren, Henry, Mary, and Columbia. The Markhams had a boarder, Nimrod Jenkins (28), who was helping on the family farm. Daniel and his father, Samuel, were listed on the Census as farmers.

Daniel filed a land claim on the Abiqua River in Silverton County, Oregon, as did his father. He accepted a donation claim of 320 acres on the upper Abiqua River near the Dunagan Bridge, where he settled December 1, 1850.

During the Cayuse Indian War of 1854, Daniel enlisted with the Oregon Volunteers and was assigned to Company 2 that was commanded by a Colonel Cornelius. He also served under Captain Bennet, who was killed at the Battle of Walla Walla in the fall of 1853, or possibly 1854. When the company was disbanded, Daniel was transferred to the command of Captain Hembry of the Oregon Volunteers, who was later killed in Yakima. Daniel was Honorably Discharged at Portland, Oregon on May 16, 1855.

It is believed Daniel Markham is buried next to his wife, Cordelia, at the Miller Cemetery, in a grave marked with a stone that cannot be deciphered. He is the half-brother of renown poet, Edwin Markham.
Daniel Markham was a farmer and raised cattle in Marion County, Oregon. Besides Oregon, he had resided in Kansas for two years and then Idaho for seventeen years. Daniel arrived in Oregon "the last of September, 1850". When the 1850 Census was taken, Daniel was living in Clakamus County, Oregon, with his parents and five siblings, John, Warren, Henry, Mary, and Columbia. The Markhams had a boarder, Nimrod Jenkins (28), who was helping on the family farm. Daniel and his father, Samuel, were listed on the Census as farmers.

Daniel filed a land claim on the Abiqua River in Silverton County, Oregon, as did his father. He accepted a donation claim of 320 acres on the upper Abiqua River near the Dunagan Bridge, where he settled December 1, 1850.

During the Cayuse Indian War of 1854, Daniel enlisted with the Oregon Volunteers and was assigned to Company 2 that was commanded by a Colonel Cornelius. He also served under Captain Bennet, who was killed at the Battle of Walla Walla in the fall of 1853, or possibly 1854. When the company was disbanded, Daniel was transferred to the command of Captain Hembry of the Oregon Volunteers, who was later killed in Yakima. Daniel was Honorably Discharged at Portland, Oregon on May 16, 1855.

It is believed Daniel Markham is buried next to his wife, Cordelia, at the Miller Cemetery, in a grave marked with a stone that cannot be deciphered. He is the half-brother of renown poet, Edwin Markham.

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