History of Wexford County, MI. Compiled by John H. Wheeler Published in 1903 by B. F. Bowen Biography Page 166 - 167

DANIEL E. KAISER

A person traveling through almost any of the states bordering on the Canadian line cannot fail to be impressed with the number of native Canadians who have located beneath the stars and stripes and become true and loyal American citizens. The first question that suggests itself to the traveler is, was it simply a spirit of restlessness and desire for a change that caused this large immigration on the part of our neighbors across the border? If it was, would not an inquiry into the nativity of the population on the other side of the line disclose an equal number of natives of the United States domiciled in Canada? It does not, however, disclose any such conditions, so that the conclusion is forced upon us that this country affords better opportunities for the average man of moderate means than does the Canadian provinces. Zealous Canadians would, doubtless, be inclined to deny this, but the facts are certainly against them. However it may be, it is quite certain that a very large percentage of the most enterprising citizens of the state of Michigan came originally from the Dominion. The subject of this review, Daniel E. Kaiser has benefited himself and added to the wealth of the state of his adoption by abandoning the place of his nativity to become an inhabitant of the great republic. Daniel E. Kaiser, a resident of section 26, Clam Lake township, is a native of Canada, born near Toronto, Vaughn county, Ontario, June 6, 1844. In his native country he was reared, educated and grew to manhood. When twenty-one years of age, in 1865, he came to Montcalm county, Michigan, where he engaged in farming and resided until 1881, when, in February of that year, he came to Wexford county and located on his present farm in Clam Lake township. In Cedar Springs, Kent county, Michigan. on the 31st day of December, 1868, Daniel E. Kaiser was united in marriage to Miss Amanda Van Meer, a native of Canada, born October 10, 1851. Immediately after marriage they came to Clam Lake township and took up their residence upon the farm owned by him on section 26, where they have since continuously resided, cultivating the soil and yearly adding to their possessions. Nine years of the time he has resided on the farm he was in the employ of La Bar & Cornwell, in Cadillac. He owns eighty acres of land, sixty of which is improved and in a fine state of cultivation. To Mr. and Mrs. Kaiser two children, Nettie and Jerry, have been born, both intelligent and possessed of much strength of mind and body. The politics of his adopted country has no little fascination for Mr. Kaiser and there are few men in Wexford county better informed on every political topic that may be under consideration. He is a loyal Republican and actively interested in the success of that party. In religion he is a member of the Methodist Episcopal church, is devout and regular in his attendance upon its services and the cause of religion, morality and charity have no more staunch and true friend and advocate than he is. Personally he is pleasant and genial, frank and candid to the utmost degree, a man whose friendship can always be depended upon and an enumeration of whose friends would be as his acquaintances.