Daniel Francis Fast ^{2 3 4 5}

  General Notes:

"Daniel Francis FAST was associated in business from 1867 or 1868 until 1876 with his brother Melancthon Luther FAST. The Company was Ballard, Fast and Company, incorporated under Ohio State Laws in 1866. The manufacturing plant was located in Canton, Ohio, where they made reaping and mowing machine knives, sections, sickles, etc., and also seat springs. A large volume of the business came from the middle western states and from Chicago, home of the McCormick Harvester Company. Daniel FAST represented the firm in this territory with headquarters in Chicago where he made his home at this time. The Company had a number of successful and profitable years. However during the last part of 1875, when financial affairs of the business were in a critical condition, Melancthon FAST, who controlled the managerial and financial affairs in Canton, became seriously ill and died in January 1876. The company was not successful in carrying on and soon after went into bankruptcy.

Daniel FAST returned to Canton after the business of Ballard, Fast and Company was dissolved. Desiring to return to a business career, he, in connection with Daniel SLANKER of Canton, Ohio, organized the Canton Cutlery Company, for the manufacture of table cutlery, pen knives, etc. This business continued only three or four years when it was dissolved as unprofitable.

Some years later Daniel FAST went to Columbus, Ohio, where he became representative of the Plano Harvester Company.

About ten days after the death of Melancthon FAST, his wife, Louisa FAST, died in childbirth, leaving as orphans the newborn baby girl, two boys, Robert and Frederick, and one girl, Anne, with ages from one to ten years. Upon his return to Canton, Daniel FAST made his home with his sister, Frances. They lived in the home built by Melancthon FAST about 1886, which was left with some life insurance, to his children. This home represented the best type of architecture and household conveniences the prevailing. It contained about fourteen rooms, and with six acres of land, made up an investment of approximately $18,000. The home was sold about 1880 by the guardian of the children under court order to provide funds. During this period, 1876 to 1880, Daniel FAST also gave comfort and support to his father and mother, Mr. and Mrs. John Jacob FAST, who lived in a comfortable home built by Melancthon FAST on the same land occupied by his own home. His mother joined the family after his father's death in 1880. When the home was sold, the family, headed by Daniel FAST, took a home in Canton, adjacent to the home of his sister, Mrs. James FLOHR.

He was devoted to home life and enjoyed music, including group singing of home songs, church music, and hymns. He maintained an active interest in the English Lutheran Church of Canton in the organization of which his father had a leading influence.

When living with the children of his brother and with his sister, Frances, he was a widower. he exhibited a spirit of liberality and enjoyment in helping others to the extent of his financial ability. At this time, in order to provide broader facilities for the education and social development of a daughter of a relative, he asked her to make her home with the family. She did this and became popular socially and married into an old established family of financial stability."

[Written by his nephew, Robert Kuhn FAST, who knew his uncle when the lad was eight to fifteen years of age.]
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  Death Notes:

Name: Daniel F. Fast
Event Type: Death
Event Date: 15 May 1900
Event Place: Columbus, Franklin, Ohio, United States
Address: 1159 Dennison Ave.
Gender: Male
Age: 69
Marital Status: Married
Race: W
Race (Original): W
Birth Year (Estimated): 1831
Birthplace: New Berlin, O.
Burial Date: 18 May 1900
Burial Place: Canton, O.
Father's Name: J. J. Fast
Father's Birthplace: Am.
Mother's Name: Anna S. Fast
Mother's Birthplace: Am.

Citing this Record
"Ohio, County Death Records, 1840-2001," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F6CG-WTT : 10 March 2018), Anna S. Fast in entry for Daniel F. Fast, 15 May 1900; citing Death, Columbus, Franklin, Ohio, United States, source ID v 3 p 80, County courthouses, Ohio; FHL microfilm 2,026,910.
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  Noted events in his life were:

• He appeared on the 1870 US Census in Chicago, IL on 8 July 1870. ³

1870 US Census
Page 173, Dwelling 1306, Family 1274
Chicago, Cook County, Illinois
18th ward
Daniel F. Fast..38..OH..Agriculture Implements

(Living with wife and son.)

NOTE - If his birth date was 18 Mar 1831, then his age should have been 39 instead of 38.

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• He appeared on the 1880 US Census in Canton, OH on 2 June 1880. ⁴

1880 US Census
Page 410A, District 139, Dwelling 40, Family 46, Roll 1067
Canton, Stark County, Ohio
Daniel Fast..Son..49..OH..Boarder

(Living with widowed mother.)
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• Death Image: 15 May 1900, in Columbus, Franklin County, OH. ⁵

Daniel married Ellen Louise Bates on 24 October 1859 in Alliance, OH.¹ (Ellen Louise Bates was born on 20 October 1841 in Mesopotamia, OH ⁷ and died on 27 August 1878 in Wakeeny, KS ⁷.)

  Noted events in their marriage were:

• They appeared on the 1870 US Census in Chicago, IL on 8 July 1870. ³

1870 US Census
Page 173, Dwelling 1306, Family 1274
Chicago, Cook County, Illinois
18th ward
Daniel F. Fast..38..OH..Agriculture Implements
Ellen L. Fast..29..OH..Keeping House
F. Corydon Fast..9..OH..At School
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  Marriage Notes:

Name: Daniel Fast
Residence: , Stark, Illinois
Ward: Essex_code Township
Age: 18 years
Estimated Birth Year: 1842
Birthplace: Ohio
Gender: Male
Page: 61
Family Number: 393
Film Number: 803229
DGS Number: 4214996
Image Number: 00065
NARA Number: M653
Collection: United States Census, 1860
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