Margaret Price "Maggie" Evans Daly
1853 - 1941
Last Rites for Mrs. Marcus Daly to
Take Place in New York City
Hamilton, July 14. --(AP)--The body of Mrs. Marcus Daly, widow of the late Montana copper magnate, who died suddenly at her summer home, Riverside [now known as Daly Mansion], here today, will be sent to New York City Thursday.
Funeral services will be conducted in New York July 21 and interment will be made in the family mausoleum there beside the body of her husband.
Mrs. Daly was a native of Ohio. She was born Sept. 7, 1852 [sic 1853]. When a young girl, she came west with her parents and the family located in Utah, where she grew to womanhood. As Miss Margaret Evans, she was active in educational affairs of Utah. She was married in 1872 to Marcus Daly who was, at the time, foreman for the Walker Brothers' Ophir mine (*read about their romance below).
IN STATE 61 YEARS
Mr. and Mrs. Daly came to Montana in 1880 from Corinne, Utah, where they resided after their marriage. Mr. Daly was the original organizer of the Anaconda Copper Mining Company; founder of Anaconda, Montana, where he built smelters and hotels; founder of the Anaconda Standard and a builder of hotels in Ravalli County. He also established an estate hear Hamilton where he raised world famous racing horses. It was at this estate that Mrs. Daly had spent her summers for many years.
Mrs. Daly had resided in Butte, Walkerville, Anaconda, Hamilton and New York, moving to the latter city following the death of her husband in 1900.
In 1889, Mr. Daly started his famous stock farm near Hamilton and in 1890 he built the home at that site. Since that time, Mrs. Daly had maintained her residence in Hamilton.
FOUNDED HOSPITAL
She founded the Marcus Daly Memorial Hospital in Hamilton in 1931 as a memorial to her son and husband, the former having died while on a hunting trip near Roanoke, Virginia, in 1930. She endowed the hospital to insure its perpetuation.
She was a devout member of the St. Paul's Episcopal Church at Hamilton. Her last act was to present a check for $5,000 to have the St. Gaudens statue of Marcus Daly moved from in front of the Butte Post Office to the Montana State School of Mines campus.
Surviving are two daughters, Mrs. James W. Gerard [Mary Augusta Daly Gerard], wife of the American ambassador to Germany prior to the first World War and Countess Sigray of Budapest [Harriot Holmes "Hattie" Daly Sigray]; a sister, Mrs. J. Ross Clark, of Los Angeles; a grandson, Marcus Daly III, Missoula; three granddaughters, Margaret and Carol Brown, of Baltimore, and Margaret Sigray of Budapest; and two sons-in-law, Mr. Gerard, of New York City, and Count Sigray of Budapest.
--The Independent-Record | Helena, Montana | Tuesday, 15 July 1941 | front page | transcribed by Annie Duckett Hundley | 22 May 2021
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HOLD FUNERAL
SERVICES FOR
MRS. DALY, 88
A community saddened by the sudden loss of one of its most distinguished citizens, Mrs. Marcus Daly, 88, paid tribute to her memory at brief funeral services at St. Paul's Episcopal Church this morning. The Rev. Thomas Bennett, Missoula, officiated.
Following the ceremony here the body was sent to New York by the Dowling Funeral Home where further tribute to her memory will be paid by other friends made during the years in which she and Mr. Daly, who died in New York in 1900, built up their vast estate. The rites there will be held Monday afternoon from the St. Thomas Episcopal Church. Burial will be in the Daly mausoleum beside Mr. Daly, Marcus II, and a daughter, Margaret.
Accompanying the body east will be the daughter, Mrs. James W. Gerard [Mary Augusta Daly Gerard], New York, who has been visiting her mother here, and C. A. Crawford, local manager of the Daly interests. Marcus Daly III, Missoula, a grandson, and Mrs. Daly will go east by plane Saturday for the services.
—Ravalli Republic | Hamilton, Montana | Thursday, 17 July 1941 | front page | transcribed by Annie Duckett Hundley | 22 May 2021
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*THE DALY ROMANCE
Marcus and Margaret, or Maggie, as he always called her, had a storybook marriage with a romantic beginning. In 1872, Daly was a foreman working for the Walker Brothers banking and mining syndicate of Salt Lake City, Utah. He was showing a newly discovered mine near Ophir, Utah, to miner Zenos Evans. Evans' daughter, Margaret, was visiting the mine with her father. Daly hopped into a trench and held up some samples of the ore. Margaret was interested in looking at the samples and strayed too close to the edge. She lost her balance and tumbled right over the edge, landing right in Daly's open arms. This chance encounter led to an engagement, and the couple was married in Salt Lake City at Joseph Walker's home. Marcus doted on his Maggie until the day he died in 1900.
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Margaret was born September 7, 1853, in Quaker City, Ohio, to Zenos Erastus and Margaret Holmes Evans, one of their seven children. She married the copper magnate, Marcus Daly. They owned a mansion in Hamilton, Montana, she called "Riverside" and the mansion was the social hub of Bitterroot Valley. She donated money to the Boy Scouts of America, which allowed them to build the first scout camp in the Skalkaho area and she donated land for the library and also built the Marcus Daly Memorial Hospital in Hamilton, Montana. She purchased and donated organs for Episcopal churches in Anaconda and Hamilton and left provisions in her will for the hospital. Margaret loved pearls and when she died her jewelry was valued at $54,000. She died at her beloved "Riverside" mansion and had funerals in Hamilton, Montana, and at St. Thomas Episcopal Church in New York. Margaret's home is now known as the Daly Mansion and is a museum open to the public. Margaret Price Evans Daly passed away July 14, 1941.
1853 - 1941
Last Rites for Mrs. Marcus Daly to
Take Place in New York City
Hamilton, July 14. --(AP)--The body of Mrs. Marcus Daly, widow of the late Montana copper magnate, who died suddenly at her summer home, Riverside [now known as Daly Mansion], here today, will be sent to New York City Thursday.
Funeral services will be conducted in New York July 21 and interment will be made in the family mausoleum there beside the body of her husband.
Mrs. Daly was a native of Ohio. She was born Sept. 7, 1852 [sic 1853]. When a young girl, she came west with her parents and the family located in Utah, where she grew to womanhood. As Miss Margaret Evans, she was active in educational affairs of Utah. She was married in 1872 to Marcus Daly who was, at the time, foreman for the Walker Brothers' Ophir mine (*read about their romance below).
IN STATE 61 YEARS
Mr. and Mrs. Daly came to Montana in 1880 from Corinne, Utah, where they resided after their marriage. Mr. Daly was the original organizer of the Anaconda Copper Mining Company; founder of Anaconda, Montana, where he built smelters and hotels; founder of the Anaconda Standard and a builder of hotels in Ravalli County. He also established an estate hear Hamilton where he raised world famous racing horses. It was at this estate that Mrs. Daly had spent her summers for many years.
Mrs. Daly had resided in Butte, Walkerville, Anaconda, Hamilton and New York, moving to the latter city following the death of her husband in 1900.
In 1889, Mr. Daly started his famous stock farm near Hamilton and in 1890 he built the home at that site. Since that time, Mrs. Daly had maintained her residence in Hamilton.
FOUNDED HOSPITAL
She founded the Marcus Daly Memorial Hospital in Hamilton in 1931 as a memorial to her son and husband, the former having died while on a hunting trip near Roanoke, Virginia, in 1930. She endowed the hospital to insure its perpetuation.
She was a devout member of the St. Paul's Episcopal Church at Hamilton. Her last act was to present a check for $5,000 to have the St. Gaudens statue of Marcus Daly moved from in front of the Butte Post Office to the Montana State School of Mines campus.
Surviving are two daughters, Mrs. James W. Gerard [Mary Augusta Daly Gerard], wife of the American ambassador to Germany prior to the first World War and Countess Sigray of Budapest [Harriot Holmes "Hattie" Daly Sigray]; a sister, Mrs. J. Ross Clark, of Los Angeles; a grandson, Marcus Daly III, Missoula; three granddaughters, Margaret and Carol Brown, of Baltimore, and Margaret Sigray of Budapest; and two sons-in-law, Mr. Gerard, of New York City, and Count Sigray of Budapest.
--The Independent-Record | Helena, Montana | Tuesday, 15 July 1941 | front page | transcribed by Annie Duckett Hundley | 22 May 2021
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HOLD FUNERAL
SERVICES FOR
MRS. DALY, 88
A community saddened by the sudden loss of one of its most distinguished citizens, Mrs. Marcus Daly, 88, paid tribute to her memory at brief funeral services at St. Paul's Episcopal Church this morning. The Rev. Thomas Bennett, Missoula, officiated.
Following the ceremony here the body was sent to New York by the Dowling Funeral Home where further tribute to her memory will be paid by other friends made during the years in which she and Mr. Daly, who died in New York in 1900, built up their vast estate. The rites there will be held Monday afternoon from the St. Thomas Episcopal Church. Burial will be in the Daly mausoleum beside Mr. Daly, Marcus II, and a daughter, Margaret.
Accompanying the body east will be the daughter, Mrs. James W. Gerard [Mary Augusta Daly Gerard], New York, who has been visiting her mother here, and C. A. Crawford, local manager of the Daly interests. Marcus Daly III, Missoula, a grandson, and Mrs. Daly will go east by plane Saturday for the services.
—Ravalli Republic | Hamilton, Montana | Thursday, 17 July 1941 | front page | transcribed by Annie Duckett Hundley | 22 May 2021
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*THE DALY ROMANCE
Marcus and Margaret, or Maggie, as he always called her, had a storybook marriage with a romantic beginning. In 1872, Daly was a foreman working for the Walker Brothers banking and mining syndicate of Salt Lake City, Utah. He was showing a newly discovered mine near Ophir, Utah, to miner Zenos Evans. Evans' daughter, Margaret, was visiting the mine with her father. Daly hopped into a trench and held up some samples of the ore. Margaret was interested in looking at the samples and strayed too close to the edge. She lost her balance and tumbled right over the edge, landing right in Daly's open arms. This chance encounter led to an engagement, and the couple was married in Salt Lake City at Joseph Walker's home. Marcus doted on his Maggie until the day he died in 1900.
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Margaret was born September 7, 1853, in Quaker City, Ohio, to Zenos Erastus and Margaret Holmes Evans, one of their seven children. She married the copper magnate, Marcus Daly. They owned a mansion in Hamilton, Montana, she called "Riverside" and the mansion was the social hub of Bitterroot Valley. She donated money to the Boy Scouts of America, which allowed them to build the first scout camp in the Skalkaho area and she donated land for the library and also built the Marcus Daly Memorial Hospital in Hamilton, Montana. She purchased and donated organs for Episcopal churches in Anaconda and Hamilton and left provisions in her will for the hospital. Margaret loved pearls and when she died her jewelry was valued at $54,000. She died at her beloved "Riverside" mansion and had funerals in Hamilton, Montana, and at St. Thomas Episcopal Church in New York. Margaret's home is now known as the Daly Mansion and is a museum open to the public. Margaret Price Evans Daly passed away July 14, 1941.
Margaret Price "Maggie" Evans Daly
1853 - 1941
Last Rites for Mrs. Marcus Daly to
Take Place in New York City
Hamilton, July 14. --(AP)--The body of Mrs. Marcus Daly, widow of the late Montana copper magnate, who died suddenly at her summer home, Riverside [now known as Daly Mansion], here today, will be sent to New York City Thursday.
Funeral services will be conducted in New York July 21 and interment will be made in the family mausoleum there beside the body of her husband.
Mrs. Daly was a native of Ohio. She was born Sept. 7, 1852 [sic 1853]. When a young girl, she came west with her parents and the family located in Utah, where she grew to womanhood. As Miss Margaret Evans, she was active in educational affairs of Utah. She was married in 1872 to Marcus Daly who was, at the time, foreman for the Walker Brothers' Ophir mine (*read about their romance below).
IN STATE 61 YEARS
Mr. and Mrs. Daly came to Montana in 1880 from Corinne, Utah, where they resided after their marriage. Mr. Daly was the original organizer of the Anaconda Copper Mining Company; founder of Anaconda, Montana, where he built smelters and hotels; founder of the Anaconda Standard and a builder of hotels in Ravalli County. He also established an estate hear Hamilton where he raised world famous racing horses. It was at this estate that Mrs. Daly had spent her summers for many years.
Mrs. Daly had resided in Butte, Walkerville, Anaconda, Hamilton and New York, moving to the latter city following the death of her husband in 1900.
In 1889, Mr. Daly started his famous stock farm near Hamilton and in 1890 he built the home at that site. Since that time, Mrs. Daly had maintained her residence in Hamilton.
FOUNDED HOSPITAL
She founded the Marcus Daly Memorial Hospital in Hamilton in 1931 as a memorial to her son and husband, the former having died while on a hunting trip near Roanoke, Virginia, in 1930. She endowed the hospital to insure its perpetuation.
She was a devout member of the St. Paul's Episcopal Church at Hamilton. Her last act was to present a check for $5,000 to have the St. Gaudens statue of Marcus Daly moved from in front of the Butte Post Office to the Montana State School of Mines campus.
Surviving are two daughters, Mrs. James W. Gerard [Mary Augusta Daly Gerard], wife of the American ambassador to Germany prior to the first World War and Countess Sigray of Budapest [Harriot Holmes "Hattie" Daly Sigray]; a sister, Mrs. J. Ross Clark, of Los Angeles; a grandson, Marcus Daly III, Missoula; three granddaughters, Margaret and Carol Brown, of Baltimore, and Margaret Sigray of Budapest; and two sons-in-law, Mr. Gerard, of New York City, and Count Sigray of Budapest.
--The Independent-Record | Helena, Montana | Tuesday, 15 July 1941 | front page | transcribed by Annie Duckett Hundley | 22 May 2021
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HOLD FUNERAL
SERVICES FOR
MRS. DALY, 88
A community saddened by the sudden loss of one of its most distinguished citizens, Mrs. Marcus Daly, 88, paid tribute to her memory at brief funeral services at St. Paul's Episcopal Church this morning. The Rev. Thomas Bennett, Missoula, officiated.
Following the ceremony here the body was sent to New York by the Dowling Funeral Home where further tribute to her memory will be paid by other friends made during the years in which she and Mr. Daly, who died in New York in 1900, built up their vast estate. The rites there will be held Monday afternoon from the St. Thomas Episcopal Church. Burial will be in the Daly mausoleum beside Mr. Daly, Marcus II, and a daughter, Margaret.
Accompanying the body east will be the daughter, Mrs. James W. Gerard [Mary Augusta Daly Gerard], New York, who has been visiting her mother here, and C. A. Crawford, local manager of the Daly interests. Marcus Daly III, Missoula, a grandson, and Mrs. Daly will go east by plane Saturday for the services.
—Ravalli Republic | Hamilton, Montana | Thursday, 17 July 1941 | front page | transcribed by Annie Duckett Hundley | 22 May 2021
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*THE DALY ROMANCE
Marcus and Margaret, or Maggie, as he always called her, had a storybook marriage with a romantic beginning. In 1872, Daly was a foreman working for the Walker Brothers banking and mining syndicate of Salt Lake City, Utah. He was showing a newly discovered mine near Ophir, Utah, to miner Zenos Evans. Evans' daughter, Margaret, was visiting the mine with her father. Daly hopped into a trench and held up some samples of the ore. Margaret was interested in looking at the samples and strayed too close to the edge. She lost her balance and tumbled right over the edge, landing right in Daly's open arms. This chance encounter led to an engagement, and the couple was married in Salt Lake City at Joseph Walker's home. Marcus doted on his Maggie until the day he died in 1900.
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Margaret was born September 7, 1853, in Quaker City, Ohio, to Zenos Erastus and Margaret Holmes Evans, one of their seven children. She married the copper magnate, Marcus Daly. They owned a mansion in Hamilton, Montana, she called "Riverside" and the mansion was the social hub of Bitterroot Valley. She donated money to the Boy Scouts of America, which allowed them to build the first scout camp in the Skalkaho area and she donated land for the library and also built the Marcus Daly Memorial Hospital in Hamilton, Montana. She purchased and donated organs for Episcopal churches in Anaconda and Hamilton and left provisions in her will for the hospital. Margaret loved pearls and when she died her jewelry was valued at $54,000. She died at her beloved "Riverside" mansion and had funerals in Hamilton, Montana, and at St. Thomas Episcopal Church in New York. Margaret's home is now known as the Daly Mansion and is a museum open to the public. Margaret Price Evans Daly passed away July 14, 1941.
1853 - 1941
Last Rites for Mrs. Marcus Daly to
Take Place in New York City
Hamilton, July 14. --(AP)--The body of Mrs. Marcus Daly, widow of the late Montana copper magnate, who died suddenly at her summer home, Riverside [now known as Daly Mansion], here today, will be sent to New York City Thursday.
Funeral services will be conducted in New York July 21 and interment will be made in the family mausoleum there beside the body of her husband.
Mrs. Daly was a native of Ohio. She was born Sept. 7, 1852 [sic 1853]. When a young girl, she came west with her parents and the family located in Utah, where she grew to womanhood. As Miss Margaret Evans, she was active in educational affairs of Utah. She was married in 1872 to Marcus Daly who was, at the time, foreman for the Walker Brothers' Ophir mine (*read about their romance below).
IN STATE 61 YEARS
Mr. and Mrs. Daly came to Montana in 1880 from Corinne, Utah, where they resided after their marriage. Mr. Daly was the original organizer of the Anaconda Copper Mining Company; founder of Anaconda, Montana, where he built smelters and hotels; founder of the Anaconda Standard and a builder of hotels in Ravalli County. He also established an estate hear Hamilton where he raised world famous racing horses. It was at this estate that Mrs. Daly had spent her summers for many years.
Mrs. Daly had resided in Butte, Walkerville, Anaconda, Hamilton and New York, moving to the latter city following the death of her husband in 1900.
In 1889, Mr. Daly started his famous stock farm near Hamilton and in 1890 he built the home at that site. Since that time, Mrs. Daly had maintained her residence in Hamilton.
FOUNDED HOSPITAL
She founded the Marcus Daly Memorial Hospital in Hamilton in 1931 as a memorial to her son and husband, the former having died while on a hunting trip near Roanoke, Virginia, in 1930. She endowed the hospital to insure its perpetuation.
She was a devout member of the St. Paul's Episcopal Church at Hamilton. Her last act was to present a check for $5,000 to have the St. Gaudens statue of Marcus Daly moved from in front of the Butte Post Office to the Montana State School of Mines campus.
Surviving are two daughters, Mrs. James W. Gerard [Mary Augusta Daly Gerard], wife of the American ambassador to Germany prior to the first World War and Countess Sigray of Budapest [Harriot Holmes "Hattie" Daly Sigray]; a sister, Mrs. J. Ross Clark, of Los Angeles; a grandson, Marcus Daly III, Missoula; three granddaughters, Margaret and Carol Brown, of Baltimore, and Margaret Sigray of Budapest; and two sons-in-law, Mr. Gerard, of New York City, and Count Sigray of Budapest.
--The Independent-Record | Helena, Montana | Tuesday, 15 July 1941 | front page | transcribed by Annie Duckett Hundley | 22 May 2021
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HOLD FUNERAL
SERVICES FOR
MRS. DALY, 88
A community saddened by the sudden loss of one of its most distinguished citizens, Mrs. Marcus Daly, 88, paid tribute to her memory at brief funeral services at St. Paul's Episcopal Church this morning. The Rev. Thomas Bennett, Missoula, officiated.
Following the ceremony here the body was sent to New York by the Dowling Funeral Home where further tribute to her memory will be paid by other friends made during the years in which she and Mr. Daly, who died in New York in 1900, built up their vast estate. The rites there will be held Monday afternoon from the St. Thomas Episcopal Church. Burial will be in the Daly mausoleum beside Mr. Daly, Marcus II, and a daughter, Margaret.
Accompanying the body east will be the daughter, Mrs. James W. Gerard [Mary Augusta Daly Gerard], New York, who has been visiting her mother here, and C. A. Crawford, local manager of the Daly interests. Marcus Daly III, Missoula, a grandson, and Mrs. Daly will go east by plane Saturday for the services.
—Ravalli Republic | Hamilton, Montana | Thursday, 17 July 1941 | front page | transcribed by Annie Duckett Hundley | 22 May 2021
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*THE DALY ROMANCE
Marcus and Margaret, or Maggie, as he always called her, had a storybook marriage with a romantic beginning. In 1872, Daly was a foreman working for the Walker Brothers banking and mining syndicate of Salt Lake City, Utah. He was showing a newly discovered mine near Ophir, Utah, to miner Zenos Evans. Evans' daughter, Margaret, was visiting the mine with her father. Daly hopped into a trench and held up some samples of the ore. Margaret was interested in looking at the samples and strayed too close to the edge. She lost her balance and tumbled right over the edge, landing right in Daly's open arms. This chance encounter led to an engagement, and the couple was married in Salt Lake City at Joseph Walker's home. Marcus doted on his Maggie until the day he died in 1900.
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Margaret was born September 7, 1853, in Quaker City, Ohio, to Zenos Erastus and Margaret Holmes Evans, one of their seven children. She married the copper magnate, Marcus Daly. They owned a mansion in Hamilton, Montana, she called "Riverside" and the mansion was the social hub of Bitterroot Valley. She donated money to the Boy Scouts of America, which allowed them to build the first scout camp in the Skalkaho area and she donated land for the library and also built the Marcus Daly Memorial Hospital in Hamilton, Montana. She purchased and donated organs for Episcopal churches in Anaconda and Hamilton and left provisions in her will for the hospital. Margaret loved pearls and when she died her jewelry was valued at $54,000. She died at her beloved "Riverside" mansion and had funerals in Hamilton, Montana, and at St. Thomas Episcopal Church in New York. Margaret's home is now known as the Daly Mansion and is a museum open to the public. Margaret Price Evans Daly passed away July 14, 1941.
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- Interment 21 July 1941
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