When Daniel Lord Libby was born on 28 October 1823, in Ossipee, Carroll, New Hampshire, United States, his father, Nathaniel Libbey, was 32 and his mother, Tirzah Lord, was 28. He married Mary Caroline Reynolds on 29 May 1855, in Greenfield, Hillsborough, New Hampshire, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 1 daughter. He lived in Oshkosh, Winnebago, Wisconsin, United States in 1860 and Wisconsin, United States in 1870. In 1880, at the age of 57, his occupation is listed as lumber merchant. He died on 25 December 1894, in Oshkosh Town, Winnebago, Wisconsin, United States, at the age of 71, and was buried in Oshkosh Town, Winnebago, Wisconsin, United States.
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English (mainly Devon): from the Middle English female personal names Libbe, Libby, or Lebby, probably pet forms of Elizabeth and perhaps also of its cognate Isabel .
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Possible Related NamesMonograph: Illustrated atlas of Winnebago County, Wisconsin Compiler: Randall, George. A Date: 1889 Publisher: Madison, Wisconsin: Brant and Fuller Page 41 TOWN OF OSHKOSH. DANIEL L. LIBBEY. --Of the many leading and highly honored citizens of Oshkosh, probably not one occupies a position of more prominence, and none is more closely identified with the great lumber interests of the city than D. L. Libbey. In fact, the history of the growth and development of the immense lumber interests of the northwest is in a measure the history of his enterprise and business achievements. Mr. Libbey was born in Ossippee, Stratford county, N. Y., on October 28, 1823. By the death of his father, leaving a widow and several children with small means, Mr. Libbey was early in life thrown upon his own resources, and began his business carreer at a tender age. In 1841, he left his mother's home and journeyed to Boston, where an unsuccessful attempt to secure employment was made, and he went to Lowell, where he entered an iron foundry and served an apprenticeship at the moulder's trade; he mastered it and followed the same for about nine years. Upon the breaking out of the gold fever, he joined a company of 100 others, who purchased a ship and set sail for the Golden Gate, arriving at their destination after a voyage of five months via Cape Horn. The ship was then sold, the proceeds divided, and each member of the company started out individually to seek his fortune. Three years were spent by Mr. Libbey and two companions in the mountains, digging gold with success. He then returned to his native state via the Isthmus of Nicaragua, but six months later returned to California, va Panaman, and until the spring of 1855, he engaged in mining, hotel keeping, and his trade. Returning thence to his old home he remained there until the following fall (1855), and then came to Oshkosh, where he has since resided. His introduction to the lumber business of the northwest occurred shortly after arriving here by the purchase of an interest in the Chase & Stilson mill, in Jackson Point, from Messrs. Ripley & Mead, and it was here he made his initiative step which has led him to his own advancement, and so materially added to the welfare and growth of this city. Mr. Libbey has passed through quite a number of business partnerships with various gentlemn and enterprises, meeting with success in all of them, and at present is a member of the large lumber firm of Williamson, Libbey & Co., of which corporation his is president. In the spring of 1871, he assisted in the organization of the Union National bank of Oshkosh, with a capital of $100,000, of which institution he was elected first president, and holds the same at present. Mr. Libbey is a progressive man, public spirited and liberal, and he has always been found in the front rank in the inauguration and liberal support of enterprises, looking to the advancement of building up of his adopted city. Possessed of fine executive ability, business sagacity, and indomitable energy and enterprise, he has surmounted all obstacles in his progressive life, and though over-taken time and again by disasters, he has always worked out his ends unaided, and to no one dies he owe his present position of wealth and influence as much as to D. L. Libbey. Generous to a fault, he is a liberal dispenser of charity of worthy causes, and for his many other noble traits of character he is universally respected and esteemed by all who know him, and his reputation is by no means confined to his city or county.
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