Descendants of Adam Dagg and Margaret Powell

From Lissenhall, Tipperary to Kansas

Compiled by Jann Callaghan Cullen

For related Keays, Powell and Dagg families, see Cindy Woods’ website at http://www.geocities.com/keaysfamilyproject/home.htm

Adam Dagg was born in about 1832, the youngest son of John Dagg and Margaret Hodgins, of Lissenhall, Tipperary. His family is presented more fully in the family tree entitled “The Daggs of Lissenhall”. He married Margaret Powell on Feb 19, 1857, at Aghnameadle. She was the daughter of Caleb Powell and Ellen Dagg. After their marriage they farmed near Youghall Arra, Tipperary for 27 years.

In 1884, Adam and Margaret and all of their children emigrated to the United States. Adam Dagg bought a farm in the southwestern part of Shawnee County, Kansas, where he lived the rest of his life, dying there in 1905, at the age of seventy-five years. Margaret’s exact date of death is not known, but she was still alive at the time of the 1920 census, still farming at the age of 79.

It is very interesting to note that the 1859 state census index for Shawnee County, Kansas lists one Daniel Dagg. It is most likely that this Daniel Dagg was also from Tipperary, likely related to Adam, and hence would explain why Adam chose to emigrate to that particular location.

Children of Adam Dagg and Margaret Powell are:

i. John Dagg, born in Tipperary; died in Shawnee County before 1918. There is an obituary notice for a John Dagg, of Butler Co., Kansas, dated 06/03/1909. Possibly this John Dagg.

ii. Caleb Dagg, born March 10, 1859 in Tipperary. He lived at Dighton, Kansas. * See “ A Profile of Caleb Dagg”, below.

iii. Margaret Dagg, born about 1860 in Tipperary, IRE.; she married Robert D. Clampett, in Tipperary, Ireland, in about 1881. Margaret and Robert emigrated to Kansas in 1884, with her family. They lived in Kansas, then later moved to Los Angeles, California, where Robert Clampett was a manager for the MJB Coffee Company. After his death Margaret worked as a Grocery store manager in Glendale, California; she died some time after 1930. A photo of Margaret is posted at http://www.clampett.net/tree/pedigree/10108.htm

Children of Adam Dagg and Margaret Powell are:

i. Holly Clampett, born about 1882, in Tipperary. She married Bill Beatty. They had no children.

ii. Robert Caleb Clampett, born about 1884 in Tipperary, Ireland. Robert worked as a salesman in the automotive trade.

iii. Adam Clampett, born Sept. 30, 1885 in Kansas; died July 2, 1952, in Los Angeles, California.

iv. Frederick William Clampett, born June 8, 1893, in Kansas; died Feb. 6, 1953, in Los Angeles, California.

v. Ruth CLAMPETT, born Nov. 20, 1898 in Kansas; she died Feb. 14, 1961, in Los Angeles, California.

iv. George Dagg, born about 1862 in Tipperary, IRE. He is listed in the 1920 census for Topeka, Shawnee County, Kansas; he lists his occupation there as a mail service, working in the city. A wife, Frances is listed there as well.

v. Thomas Dagg; born in Tipperary; he was christened September 17, 1864¹, at Portroe parish church, in Tipperary. He died in Shawnee County, Kansas, some time before 1918.

vi. Eleanor DAGG was born in about 1872, in Tipperary, IRE. She later went to live in Los Angeles, California with her sister Margaret.

vii. Elizabeth Dagg, was born May 3, 1869², in Tipperary, IRE. She never married, and worked as a domestic and as a hotel worker for a number of years. Eventually she went to live in Santa Fe, N.M. with her widowed sister Temperance.

viii. Temperance Dagg, born in Tipperary, Ireland. She married Robert Willason, and they went to live at Santa Fe, New Mexico; Robert died some time before 1918.

ix. Susan Dagg, born in Tipperary, IRE. She never married, and lived with her brother Caleb lived at Dighton, Kansas.

x. Adam Dagg, born about 1875, in Tipperary, IRE. He lived in Shawnee County, Kansas. He married Ethel 'Dagg'. She was born April 26, 1883 in Kansas, and died May 1976 in Topeka, Kansas. Adam Dagg and his family farmed at Dover, Shawnee County, Kansas. He must have been a fairly prosperous man, as the value of his property was listed in the 1920 census at a staggering value of $18,000!

Children of Adam Dagg and Ethel 'Dagg' are:

i. Fred L. Dagg, b. March 23, 1905, Shawnee County, Ks; d. December 16, 1990.

ii. Margaret B. Dagg, b. Abt. 1908.

iii. Adam V. Dagg, b. March 26, 1911, Shawnee County, Kansas; d. May 08, 1995.

iv. William H. Dagg, b. August 01, 1915, Kansas; d. May 1981, Topeka, Kansas.

v. Ethel N. Dagg, b. Abt. 1918.

vi. Mildred E. Dagg, b. Abt. 1921.

xi. William Dagg, born in Tipperary, IRE. He lived in Shawnee County, Kansas.

xii. Frances ‘Fannie’ Dagg, born about 1881, in Tipperary, IRE. Fanny remained unmarried. As of the 1920 census, she was 39 years old and still living at home with her elderly mother, in Dover, Shawnee County, Kansas.

A Profile of Caleb Dagg ³

Caleb Dagg attended the common schools in Ireland and then for a time was a clerk in a mercantile establishment. He had had no farm training when he accompanied his parents to the United States and to Shawnee County, Kansas. He made his home with them for one year and then started out for himself. In October, 1885, he came to Lane County and took up homesteading at the southeast quarter of section 5, township 16, range 27. He built a "dugout" home, a one-room 10 by 12 foot space, with a dirt floor, and a half window to admit light.

He worked for other farmers in order to save enough to buy a few cattle. Over the years he improved his house, and enlarged his property. The nearby village of Dighton had grown into a town of about 700 people and growing, and Caleb recognised that the busy town offered opportunities. He was appointed postmaster of Dighton, and conducted the office for four years and upon retirement was chosen cashier of the First State Bank of Dighton, officiating in that position for eighteen months. He was later elected to the office of Registrar of Deeds, an importance position at that time, where he served five years.

Returning to business life, he resumed banking as vice president of the institution with which he had formerly been identified, and when later it was converted into the First National Bank he continued in the same relation. He was greatly respected, and his name became an asset and an assurance of stability in the financial institutions with which it is connected.

Caleb Dagg, was widely known in financial and other circles, was vice president of the First National Bank of Dighton, president of the First State Bank of Healy, Kansas, and on July 6, 1918, was appointed treasurer and elected a director of the Federal Land Bank of Wichita, Kansas, one of the largest financial institutions in the country.

Politically Caleb Dagg was a Democrat, casting his first vote in Lane County, and was a strong party man in state and national issues and was been a delegate many times to state conventions. He was a member of several fraternal organizations, being a Master Mason, an Odd Fellow, a member of the Order of Modern Woodmen, the Woodmen of the World and the Occidental.

Footnotes:

¹ Date of christening as given by Cindy Woods, on the Keays family genealogy website

² Date of birth as given by Cindy Woods, on the Keays family genealogy website

³ From A Standard History of Kansas and Kansans; Wm E. Connelly; Chicago: Lewis Publishing Co.,c1918. 5 v.

Jann Callaghan Cullen Feb. 10, 04