Joseph Daly headed for America and was followed a year later by his wife and three daughters. I was two years old.
"We settled in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin because Father felt it was the only spot in America that was 'as green as Ireland.' A fourth Daly girl was born there, and my family stayed in Fond du Lac throughout our childhood years."1
"My sisters and I were raised as equals. There wasn't a boy in the family to deflect attention from us; maybe that's why we thrived."2
"My mother told us often--and shrewdly so--that we were incredibly lucky having friends right in our own home. Always someone to play with.
"We were given a lot of leeway, so discipline was never a big problem. Because our parents didn't put us in a position where we had to lie, there seemed little point to getting into trouble.
"While my mother was quite good to us, she was also very autocratic and demanding. She came from the North of Scotland where her father was an estate manager for Sir Andrew Bain, and she absorbed all the snobbery that went with the mercantile title. Since the Bains had no children, they offered my grandparents a million pounds in order to adopt her.
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