Daniel GREENHALGH, III

                   He and his mother bothers and sisters came to the United States on the Campania leaving Liverpool on the 10th of April, arriving in New York on the 15th of April, 1902.  He came with a letter of recommendation from his employer, C. E. Samuels & Company, Exporters, 32 Oxford Street, Manchester, England.  To quote this letter: This is to certify that Mr. Daniel Greenhalgh has been in our employ for the period of six months, as invoice & junior ledger clerk.  He is honest, punctual, industrious and intelligent & has performed his duties to our entire satisfaction.  He leaves us on his own accord, and carries with him in his travels our best wishes for his future welfare. signed C. E. Samuels & Co. dated 26 March 1902.  He Petitioned for Naturalization in Chicago on 27 July 1915 while living at 1246 Columbia Ave., a block west of Sheridan Road and one block from his brother, Jack (John Hunt) Greenhalgh.  The petition says he emigrated from Liverpool and was born in Manchester, England.  Prior to moving to Chicago he lived at 1201 North 8th St., St. Joseph, Missouri. In Chicago he and his wife, Clara, moved to the apartment on Columbia Avenue, Rogers Park, then to 6444 Glenwood Avenue where their son Robert, was born.  When he retired he sold his accounting firm to Peat Marwick, then moved to Bay Island, Sarasota, Florida and stayed there for a few years before leaving for Lynchburg, Virginia.  They rented a home during 1950 at 1039 Ashland Place while they built their home at 805 Old Trents Ferry Road.
During the late '30's the family bought land in upper Wisconsin (Bony Lake, off Middle Eau Claire Lake) and his sons built a log cabin with the help of Dick Johnson who spent a summer with them and along with Jerry Huddle who spent a limited time but not all summer. After the war with the family married and settled with most living in the East, the property was sold.  Daniel sent each a statement of the proceeds of the sale in which he detailed the distribution to each of his three sons.  The cabin was sold for $1850 less the expenses, taxes etc. each of his sons received roughly a third of the balance.
Daniel had an English, subtle sense of humor which is illustrated by the following copy of a note that he sent to the IRS in 1979 in reply to a notice to him that he had made an error and that he owed them more money:  I have checked the calculations on the Schedule R and fail to find any errors.  However, as I am 94 years of age and do not have the strength to argue with you, I am sending you a check for the amount you claim is due, and hope that someone gets some good out of it. (signed) D. Greenhalgh.
From notes (dated September 17, 1977) of conversations with Daniel Greenhalgh from time to time:  My father said he asked the minister one day, whether he believed it was a good idea, that part where it says lay not up stores of treasure on earth (from Luke).  I could never get an answer, he would seem to avoid it, he never said whether it was a good idea.  These birds never answer, you know.  Dad went on to say:  father never put anything away.  He just gave it all away.  Everything.  There wasn't a week went by but what there wouldn't be somebody in to dinner. Somebody off the street.  Mother was always feeding somebody.  Some poor person.  Father would give them clothes, money.  I remember I would be going back to the tailor to have another suit made.  Father had given mine away.  Expensive clothes, too. That was his belief, Luke something. He referred to it in the flyleaf of his bible, there it is written, I don't know whether that's a good idea or not, giving everything away. See, Mother, when Father died, had nothing.  She hadn't anything.  She had to sell everything, at auction. There you see the catalogue.  Jack was the main support.  He tried to continue the business, but he was too young.  He had a nervous breakdown, he couldn't go on.  He tried to carry on Father's (accounting) business, but he just couldn't do it.  He was too young, I think, too.  Finally Mother sold the business to Sharpe and we all came to America. She went to see her brother, he was in Albany (Missouri) and was a doctor there.  Then he had a drug store.  When we got there he had a drug store.  We all went there from England on the Campania.  Gee, I thought I was going to the wild west, Indians, Cowboys.  I bought those saws in England - I thought I was going to have to build a log cabin in the Wild West.  When we got here, I looked at the saws.  The name said Henry Diston & Sons - Philadelphia  I thought all of America was the Wild West.
EXTRACT FROM HATTIE SCHRAM