Eggleston, Daniel C.

Born: 1805-03-11 New York

Died: 1875-01-15 Rochester, Illinois

Flourished: Rochester, Illinois

Daniel C. Eggleston was a shoemaker, postmaster, and pioneer settler of Rochester, Illinois. He first came to Sangamon County, Illinois, in 1825. From August 1847 to May 1849, Eggleston served as postmaster of Rochester. In 1850, he was working as a shoemaker. In August 1850, Eggleston married Phebe Lampson. He was still employed as a shoemaker in 1860, and he owned real property valued at $800 and had a personal estate of $100. He died from pleuro-pneumonia after a short illness.

Gravestone, Rochester Cemetery, Rochester, IL; Obituary, Illinois Daily State Journal (Springfield), 22 January 1875, 4:1; Record of Appointment of Postmasters, 1832-1971, NARA Microfilm Publication, M841, 145 rolls, Records of the Post Office Department, RG 28, 1845-1855, 18:172, National Archives Building, Washington, DC; Fitz Henry Warren to Abraham Lincoln; Register of all Officers and Agents, Civil, Military, and Naval, in the Service of the United States, on the Thirtieth September, 1849 (Washington, DC: Gideon, 1849), *487; Illinois Statewide Marriage Index, Jersey County, 21 August 1850, Illinois State Archives, Springfield, IL; U.S. Census Office, Seventh Census of the United States (1850), Sangamon County, IL, 266; U.S. Census Office, Eighth Census of the United States (1860), Sangamon County, IL, 287.