T.A. Daly

T.A. Daly

Daly was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to Anne Victoria (Duckett) and John Anthony Daly, who owned and ran the 1st Catholic bookstore in the city. He was educated him in both public schools and Catholic boarding schools. He began attending Villanova College in 1885, at age 14. He then transferred to Fordham University (where, he later said, he "tried to major in baseball and cigarette smoking"), but dropped out after his sophomore year. After college Daly worked for a time as a cashier in a grocery store, where he learned and studied the Italian and Irish accents of his customers. In 1891 he became a reporter for the Philadelphia Reporter, eventually working his way up to editorial writer. In 1896 he married Anne Bancroft, who would bear him 7 children. He enjoyed a happy family life, which he would write about in his 1916 volume, Songs of Wedlock.

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