(1864-6 March 1934), clergyman. Born at Stouffville, Ont. Early in life he was apprenticed to his father, a shoemaker, and thereby learned the shoemaker’s art. Formal education: local schools, business college in Toronto, McGill University and Congregational College, Montreal, with a year of postgraduate studies at Union Theological Seminary in New York. At Burford, Ont., in 1891, he was ordained a Congregationalist pastor. From this time he was a pastor at Burford and New Durham, Ont., 1891-1899, and a pastor at Maxville 1900-1913. (dates given in Maxville (1991) p. 205 as 1899-1914) The principal Congregationalist church building was in Maxville village, but services may have continued at the log church at St. Elmo into the early years of Daley’s pastorate. (Maxville (1991) 203-205) He was chairman of the Congregational Union in June 1909. After leaving Maxville, he was a pastor at Cobourg and Cold Springs, Ont., 1913-1917. He then left the active ministry to become superintendent for the Children’s Aid Society of the counties of Durham and Northumberland, Ont. He served with that Children’s Aid Society from 1917 till probably late in life, and is described in his obituaries as an inspector for the society. In 1918 he received the Doctor of Divinity degree from Congregational College. At one stage he was also a member of Board of Governors of the College. A member of the United Church after Church Union, he served as an elder of Port Hope United Church. In the Masonic Lodge, Maxville, he was a past master. Place of death: Port Hope. He was married to Mary R. Unsworth (died 6 Sept. 1943), whose father was also a Congregationalist minister.

Standard Freeholder 7 March 1934 * Archives of the Montreal and Ottawa Conference, United Church of Canada, Montreal * United Church Archives, Victoria University, University of Toronto (includes two portrait, also obituaries of Rev. James T. and Mrs Daley from Toronto Globe and other sources) * biog. sketch, notes on his early life, in article “The Man from Glengarry,” repr. Glengarrian 25 June 1909 from Toronto News and written on occasion of his becoming chairman of the Congregational Union * Morgan (1912) 292 * Maxville (1991) * Maxville (1967) 21