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2984 GEORGIA AND GEORGIANSJudge Daley was also largely interested in farming in Johnson Countyand was the organizer and a director of the Exchange Bank of Wrightsville,which he founded in 1909. For many years he was chairman and trusteeof the Board of Stewards of the Methodist Church, and in his home localityno individual did more for the promotion of education than Judge Daley.He was a member of the school board from its organization and a generouscontributor to and active supporter of all movements which had for theirobjects the elevation of educational standards and the bettering of publicschool service. Judge Daley possessed ideals tending to intellectual freedomand progress, to individuality, personal initiative, affection, consideration.and thoroughness. The lives of few of the citizens of Johnson county weremore clean-cut, well-rounded and uniformly developed than that of JudgeDaley.How his fellow citizens and business associates regarded him in businessaffairs and in the law can be best described by a quotation from some resolutions drawn up by the board of directors of the Wrightsville & TennilleRailroad after his death. Quoting a few paragraphs from these resolutions:"The long years of service of Judge Daley as general counsel and president of the "Wrightsville & Tennille Railroad Company were signalized byfaithful and unflagging work of the highest order of ability. The Wrightsville & Tennille Railroad Company manifested its appreciation of his servicesby continuously and uninterruptedly electing him to the presidency whichhe held for so many years."In his long years of service as Judge of the Superior Court, StateSenator, lawyer and railroad man, Judge Daley passed through all of thesepositions unscathed and unsullied, uncorrupted and incorruptible, andleaves to his family and friends the highest of all honorable titles: that ofbeing an honest man. Suspicion never fastened upon him he was above it.His life as a Christian -was exemplary in every respect and he was alwayszealous for all movements that would benefit his country in any way.The most impressive things of his long life were his thoroughness, hisindustry, his capacity for work, and his sturdy integrity. It might well besaid of him as Talon said of the celebrated D'Augesseau on hearing his firstspeech at the bar 'I would willingly end as that young man commenced.'He had the courage to encounter the most valiant gladiators of the arena,and the ability to vanquish the grandest champions of the forum. Histraining, his mental endowments and learning equipped him 'the law's wholethunder born to wield.' He never entered upon the trial of a case withoutthe most painstaking and exhaustive preparation when time permitted. Inall his varied duties we can well say that his life was a success. His careerwas complete. Full of years and honors he passed into the night of death toemerge into that shining realm where sorrow and darkness are unknown."December 12, 1878, Judge Daley was married at Kirkwood, Georgia, toMiss Willie S. Howard, daughter of Col. Thomas C. and Elizabeth (Kellam)Howard. Of their twelve children four died in infancy. Pauline H. is thewife of Judge J. E. Burch of Dublin, Georgia; Elrner E. is cashier ofthe Exchange Bank of "Wrightsville; Russell M., a graduate of WarthenCollege, Emory College and the law department of the University of Georgiaclass of 1907, was associated in practice with his father as junior memberof the firm of Daley & Daley; Millard, is agent of the Wrightsville & TennilleRailroad; Miss Rowena is a graduate of Warthen College, Wesleyan Collegeand Belmont College of Nashville, Tennessee; Frederick is connected withthe Exchange Bank of Wrightsville; Myra Louise is a graduate of WarthenCollege and a student of Belmont College; Hugh Coma, a graduate of WarthenCollege, is now attending the University of Georgia. Mrs. Daley, like herlate husband, has taken an active and prominent part in the work of theMethodist Episcopal Church, particularly in behalf of its missions. In her