Lessons from America's oldest place-based scholarship fund
- 1858 Born in Mayo County Ireland, February 17
- 1864 Immigrated to U.S. (Selma, Alabama), enrolled in 1st grade, his mother died when he was six or seven
- 1870 Became a U.S. citizen
- 1874 Record of transit on the ship Anglia from Glasgow to New York
- 1884-86 Attended Ohio Northern University in Ada, Ohio (graduated 1886)
- 1886-87 Attended University of Louisville Medical School
- 1887 After brief stay in Fort Bidwell, California, settled in Lakeview, Oregon
- 1889 Served on first Lakeview Town Council, elected to Lakeview School Board (served for 26 years)
- 1889 Received medical license in Oregon
- 1892-94 Member, Oregon House of Representatives
- 1894 Silver Lake Fire
- 1896-1900 Senator, Oregon Senate
- 1897-98 Served as Lakeview Mayor
- 1898-1906 Served as member of Oregon Agricultural College (OSU) Board of Regents
- 1900 Ran (unsuccessfully) for U.S. Senate
- 1900 Identified in 1900 U.S. Census (see Census form)
- 1914 Admitted to Oregon Bar, appointed first circuit judge of Lake County
- 1920 Bernard Daly died on January 5th on board a train near Stockton on his way to San Francisco (see death certificate).
- 1921 Daly will upheld in Federal Court
- 1922 Daly Fund scholarships first awarded
