Dr. Daniel Straw

  General Notes:

POB DOD per research of Ray and Mary Straw

http://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Straw-156
was born in 1847. He is the son of David Straw and Caroline Ayer He was the 7th of eleven children. Like all the children of David Straw, Daniel had the opportunity to have an excellent education. He attended Dartmouth College's school of Medicine and graduated in 1869. Like so many of his time, the lure of the frontier beckoned. He went to Wells, Minnesota which was a thriving railroad hub in the 1870's and became the town's first physician and Health Officer.


General catalogue of Dartmouth College and the associated schools 1769-1900 ...
By Dartmouth College, Marvin Davis Bisbee
[page 357] Daniel Straw b. 17 May 1847 Bangor, Maine; Physician Wells, Minn 1870-1891; deid 18 July 1891 (Class of 1870)

photo courtesy of T & S Sollenbarger from a family album

1860 census Guilford, Piscataquis, ME
David R. Straw born c1796
Caroline A. c1814
David R. c1836
Martha K. c1839
William O. c1842
Gideon M. c1844
Caroline A. c1846
Daniel c1847
Henry c1850
Ellen M. c1852
Fred H. c1854
Nahum O N c1858

"Dr. Straw, was an admired and much respected man in the community. He died in a carriage accident when Constance was not quite three years old. Clippings from newspapers at the time, tell of a huge outpouring of sympathy in the town and neighboring area, attesting to the affection and high esteem, in which his fellow citizens had held him." [per E. Benitez]

"His obituary states that he took his degree in 1869 and spent a year in Guilford before moving to Wells in Dec. 1870. He was married the following year in Sommerville Mass. ( S. Thoms)"

census 1870 Guilford, Piscataquis Co.ME
David R. Straw c1796
Caroline A. c1814
David r. c1836
Henry c1850
Carrie c1845
Daniel c1847 [physician]
Frederick H. c1854

NEHGS - marriage records of Somerville, MA 16 Oct 1871
Dr. Daniel Straw the s/o David R. and Caroline A. age 24; born Guilford, ME; physician living in Wells, MN to Florence J. Watson age 22 born Portland, ME and living in Somerville the d/o Newell and Eliza A.

1880 Wells, Faribault County, Minnesota
Daniel S... Self M Male W 33 ME Physician ME ME
Florence W. S... Wife M Female W 32 ME Keeping House ME ME ...
A. S... Dau S Female W 4 MN ME ME ...
W. S... Son S Male W 2 MN ME ME
Carrie THOMPSON Other S Female W 21 ... Servant

Faribault County, MN
ROSEHILL CEMETERY N - Z
Transcription done by Diane Oldfather in 2003.
From Wells take US 109 West:
STRAW Nelly 9/8/72-9/30/1872
Daniel 5/17/47-7/18/1891
Florence 4/6/48-10/28/1907

Find A Grave Memorial# 75263067

Daniel married Florence Jane Watson, daughter of Samuel Newell Watson and Ann Eliza Pierce, on 16 Oct 1871 in Somerville, Middlesex County, Massachusetts. (Florence Jane Watson was born on 6 Apr 1848 in Portland, Cumberland County, Maine, died on 28 Oct 1907 in Wells, Faribault County, Minnesota and was buried in Rosehill Cemetery outside Wells, Minnesota.)