Background
Waldo was born in 1800 in Harrison County, Virginia to Jedediah Waldo and Mary Polly Porter.
Waldo was born in 1800 in Harrison County, Virginia to Jedediah Waldo and Mary Polly Porter.
Harrison County would become part of West Virginia during the American Civil War when a portion of Virginia joined the Union as a new state. After turning 19 years of age Waldo migrated to Missouri where he entered the lumber business. He descends from a Wiltshire, England family who migrated to Massachusetts in the American colonies in the 17th century.
In 1843, the Waldo family traveled the Trail to Country.
They traveled with their neighbors the Applegates, including Jesse Applegate. Daniel spent most of the trip in a carriage on the journey due to poor health, but the group reach the Willamette Valley in 1843 and settled east of Salem, in an area now known as the Waldo Hills.
The following year Daniel was elected to serve as a legislator in the Provisional Government. With the Cayuse War in 1848, Daniel fought against the Native Americans in Eastern During the 1860s Daniel was involved with promoting the state’s wool industry.
Daniel Waldo died in Salem, on September 10, 1880.
They were some of the earliest black pioneers in America Waldo, who married in 1863 and became America Waldo Bogle, was rumored, even in the Bogle family, to be the daughter of Daniel Waldo. More recent research shows that it may be Daniel"s brother Joseph Waldo who brought slaves with him to in 1846, and that he is more likely to be America"s father. This is due to the birth year on America"s headstone in Walla Walla, Washington, 1844, which was more than a year after Daniel left Missouri.
Daniel, however, raised America and "acted as a father figure" to her.
Although Daniel Waldo owned slaves in Missouri, it is unclear whether America was a slave while in.
He was also a member of the Rangers militia and fought in the Cayuse War. Earlier he had been a member of the Rangers volunteer militia.