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DANIEL SCOTT LAMONT was born on his family’s farm in Cortland County, New York, on 9 February 1851; attended Union College at Schenectady, New York, but did not graduate; was employed as engrossing clerk and assistant journal clerk in the state capitol at Albany; was a clerk on the staff of the Democratic state central committee, 1872; was chief clerk of the New York department of state, 1875–1882; was employed on and later acquired a financial interest in the Albany Argus, 1877–1882; was assigned by his mentor, Daniel Manning, to New York Governor Grover Cleveland’s staff as a political prompter; became private and military secretary with the rank of colonel on the governor’s staff, 1883; was appointed private secretary to President Cleveland, 1885; was employed by William C. Whitney in his business ventures, 1889; served as Secretary of War, 5 March 1893–5 March 1897; urged throughout his tenure the adoption of a three-battalion infantry regiment as a part of a general modernization and strengthening of the Army; recommended the construction of a central hall of records to house Army archives; urged that Congress authorize the marking of important battlefields in the manner adopted for Antietam; recommended that lands being used by Apache prisoners at Fort Sill be acquired for their permanent use and their prisoner status be terminated; was vice president of the Northern Pacific Railway Company, 1898–1904; was a director of numerous banks and corporations; died in Millbrook, Dutchess County, New York, on 23 July 1905.

Daniel's family was from Dunoon and Inverchaolain dating back to 1700, Daniel's grandfather emigrated to US in early 1800's