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Note: Daniel Diver 1862-Unknown Daniel Diver, a substantial resident of Deerfield, was born in Monroe county, Mich., Aug. 1, 1862. He is the son of John and Nancy (Chamberlain) Diver, both of whom were born in Monroe county and moved to Deerfield township on May 28, 1866. Their farm of eighty acres was situated two and a half miles northwest of the village of Deerfield. There the mother died in 1890 and the father seven years later. Seven children were born to the parents. Asa died in 1906; Richard is a farmer in Deerfield township; Julia died in the spring of 1867; Sara (Diver) Tennant lives in California; Mary (Diver) Stansbury lives in Deerfield village, and M. Diver lives on the old homestead in Deerfield township. Daniel Divers educational advantages were limited to the courses afforded by the old Black North school and the Deerfield village schools. When he was but fifteen years of age he left home and went into the woods in the northern part of the state, where he worked for one winter. Upon his return in the spring he entered the employ of a railroad company for a time and then went west to Nebraska, where he earned a livelihood as a carpenter. Later he did freighting for a firm, his route being from Cheyenne, Wyo., to Deadwood, S. D., for a winter, and in the spring started prospecting in the Black Hills. With two partners he staked out what later proved to be the largest gold- producing mine in the state, but by fraudulent methods the partners robbed him of his share. During the year 1881 he was in the employ of the Union Pacific railroad as a bridge carpenter. In the fall of the year following he returned to Michigan and spent the winter working in the woods. In the spring of 1883 he went as far west as Idaho and staked a mining claim, which, after twenty- one weeks of possession, he sold for $6,000. From there he worked south into New Mexico and hired out to assist in driving 11,000 sheep to Nebraska. When the live stock had been put aboard cars for Omaha Mr. Diver made his way to Carson City, Nev., where, with two companions, he purchased three saddle and two pack ponies and started on an overland trip for Arizona. The death of one member of the party, before the trip was half over, determined the other two to abandon their trip when they got as far as Denver, Col. From there Mr. Diver returned to Nebraska to spend the winter and in the spring following he made his way to Oregon and staked out a claim to a lead and gold mine. Subsequently he disposed of this for $7,000 and went on a trip overland to Idaho and Montana. From the latter state he went to Salt Lake City, Utah, and was in that city when Brigham Young died. During the next twenty odd months he was various employed, first on a ranch belonging to Col. William F. Cody (Buffalo Bill) and later prospecting with little success in Oregon and Nevada. In 1887 he made a big strike in Utah, where, with the assistance of a hired man, he took from a mine he had staked out, $2,000, and at the end of eight weeks sold his claim for $13,000. He then entered 160 acres of land in Arkansas, under the homestead law, and made his residence there until 1896. In that year Mr. Diver returned to Michigan and conducted his fathers farm until the spring of 1899, when he purchased a fine home in Deerfield village, where he has since lived. Since removing to Deerfield he has been variously occupied. He has located the cement plants at Cement City, Lenawee county, Durham and Ottawa, Canada, and since 1906 has devoted most of his time to developing the Britton Brick & Tile Company, of Britton. He is also one of the directors of the Deerfield State Bank. Fraternally he is prominently identified with the Masonic order, being a Noble of the Mystic Shrine. On Feb. 9, 1888, occurred Mr. Divers marriage to Miss Tennie Martin, born in the state of Louisiana on June 22, 1868, the daughter of Lewis and Tabitha (Bridges) Martin. Mr. Martin was born in Alabama and died in 1898; his widow is now living in Madison county, Arkansas, where the daughter was married. Three children have been the issue of the marriage of Mr. and Mrs. Diver. They are Douglas, born Aug. 1, 1890; Milton, born March 28, 1893, and Asa, born Jan. 21, 1895. All are residing at home; Douglas is a member of the class of 1910, of the Deerfield High School, and the two younger sons are taking eighth-grade work in the schools. Bonner, Richard I., ed. Memoirs of Lenawee County Michigan. 2 vols. Madison, WI: Western Historical Association, vol. 2, pp. 105-106. 1909 According to Barbara Engel Pepper, a genealogist of the Diver family, Daniel Diver, sometime after the publication of the above biography, went to Alaska to do some prospecting. He never returned. His date and place of death are unknown. 1880 Census Deerfield, MI Daniel 17 yrs hired hand for John Bennett
Border Crossings: From U.S. to Canada, 1908-1935
Name: Daniel Diver Age: 67 Estimated Birth Year: abt 1862 Arrival Port: Kingsgate, British Columbia Date of Arrival: 4 Jul 1929 Birth Location: momoe, Michigan Gender: Male Citizenship: American Destination Calgary
Listed as wife Border Crossings: From U.S. to Canada, 1908-1935 Name: May Diver Age: 47 Estimated Birth Year: abt 1882 Arrival Port: Kingsgate, British Columbia Date of Arrival: 4 Jul 1929 Birth Location: cesselman, Ontario Gender: Female Citizenship: American
Name: Daniel Diver Gender: Male Residence Year: 1923 Street address: 1203 S 2d Residence Place: Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA Occupation: MacHinist Spouse: Mary Diver Publication Title: Albuquerque, New Mexico, City Directory, 1923
Name: Daniel Diver Gender: Male Residence Year: 1925 Street address: 1203 S 2d Residence Place: Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA Occupation: MacHinist Spouse: Mary Diver Publication Title: Albuquerque, New Mexico, City Directory, 1925
Name: May Diver Gender: Female Residence Year: 1926 Street address: 1203 S 2d Residence Place: Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA Spouse: Daniel Diver Publication Title: Albuquerque, New Mexico, City Directory, 1926
Name: May Diver Gender: Female Residence Year: 1927 Street address: 1203 S 2d Residence Place: Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA Spouse: Daniel Diver Publication Title: Albuquerque, New Mexico, City Directory, 1927
Name: May Diver Gender: Female Residence Year: 1929 Street address: 203 S 2d Residence Place: Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA Spouse: Daniel Diver Publication Title: Albuquerque, New Mexico, City Directory, 1929
1880 United States Federal Census
Name: Daniel Diver Age: 17 Birth Year: abt 1863 Birthplace: Michigan Home in 1880: Deerfield, Lenawee, Michigan Race: White Gender: Male Marital Status: Single Father's Birthplace: Michigan Mother's Birthplace: Michigan Neighbors: View others on page Occupation: Laborer Name Age Daniel Diver 17 Hired hand in household of John Burnett
1900 United States Federal Census
Name: Dan'L Diver [Daul Diver] Age: 37 Birth Date: Aug 1862 Birthplace: Michigan Home in 1900: Deerfield, Lenawee, Michigan Race: White Gender: Male Relation to Head of House: Head Marital Status: Married Spouse's Name: Fannie Diver Marriage Year: 1887 Years Married: 13 Father's Birthplace: Canada Mother's Birthplace: Michigan Occupation: Day laborer Neighbors: View others on page Household Members: Name Age Dan'L Diver 37 Fannie Diver 31 Douglas Diver 9 Milton Diver 6 Asa Diver 4
1916 Canadian Census Daniel Diver 50 born USA Immigrated 1895 became Canadian citizen 1910 Presbyterian Rock miner May 25 born Ontario Catholic
1921 Census of Canada Name: Daniel Diver Gender: Male Marital Status: Married Age: 55 Birth Year: abt 1866 Birth Place: USA Relation to Head of House: Head Spouse's Name: May Diver Father Birth Place: USA Mother Birth Place: USA Year of Immigration: 1899 Racial or Tribal Origin: English Province or Territory: Alberta District: Calgary West District Number: 4 Sub-district: City of Calgary (Part) Sub-District Number: 29 City, Town or Village: Calgary Section Number: 1118 2nd St East Municipality: Polling Div 28 Occupation: Carpenter Neighbors: View others on page Household Members: Name Age Daniel Diver 55 May Diver 35 Year of Immigration 1912 Joseph Bradahouse 52 James Dallan 26 James Staipyagtel 28 Thomas McLean 35 William Covey 40
From Memoirs of Lenawee County Michigan The Deerfield State Bank in Deerfield was organized March 27,1906, with a capital of $20,00, and its resources at the last report in 1908, were given as $80,935.86. W F Weisinger is the president, Dale Munson officiates as vice-president, and V B Cannon occupies the position of cashier, while the board of directors is constituted as follows; W F Weisinger, Daniel Diver, Nathan Bragg, George Cannon and Dale Munson. This bank is highly appreciated in the stirring village of Deerfield, and it is constantly increasing in popular favor.
From Black Bonanza: Canada's Oil Sands and the Race to Secure North America's Energy Future In 1920, Daniel Diver was the first leaseholder to try and produce oil from the bitumen by an In situ (underground) method. He tried to didtill oil directly from the oil sands by lowering a heating unit to the bottom of a well near Fort McMurray. That technique didn't work very well.
From Challenging Legitimacy at the Precipice of Energy Calamity By Debra J. Davidson, Mike Gismondi Fig 3.8 Glebow Archives. NA-1142-6 interior of shack with sample of tar sands and extractions. Daniel Diver Fort McMurray 3 March 1920. Google Books on web
The first in situ efforts to recover bitumen embedded in the Athabaska oil sands was actually underway as early as 1918. Several more in situ attempts were made throughout the 1920s, but this method of recovery was abandoned during the Great Depression. During the 1920s, various in situ methods were patented and experimented with by individuals such as Daniel Diver, C.E. Dutcher, William Georgsson, James D. Tait and O.B. Absher.
From The Petroleum Times Vol 6 July 16, 1921 The MacMurray Tar Sands of Alberta While the well-known Athabasca tar sands have been the source of wonderment to all scientists who have seen them, these tar sands, which are nothing less than a great thickness of sandstone completely saturated with oil, are being scientifically tested now to find a way of extracing the oil from the sands. To this end a great deal of credit is due to the efforts of Mr Dan Diver, who is the inventor of a process for extracting the oil without having to remove the sands. This process is controlled by the Athabasca Oil Sands and Extraction Company, Ltd., who are now operating in the Fort McMurray district in Canada.
Brick, Volume 16 Dan Diver , of Deerfield, Mich., is organizing a company to develope the deposits of clay at Great Slave Lake. A mondern brick plant with a large capacity is contemplated.
From The Cement Age Vol.2 issue 4 (1905) The Detroit, Michigan. Tribune publishes an article on one Dan Diver, whom it calls a "cement scout", and whom it describes as investigating cement deposits in the district of Calgary, Alberta, all of which is interesting if true; but at the same time to those who are actually in the cement industry in the United States, it is a well-known fact that cement scouts are nor necessary to locate cement property.
From Context Paper; Municipal District of Bighorn No. 8 "is located east of Banff National Park, along the eastern slopes of the Alberta Rocky Mountains." The hamlet of Exshaw owes its existence to the Western Canada Cement and Coal Company (WCCC). Two employees of the Internaational Portland Cement Company, Hugh Fleming and Dan Diver, discovered a mountain of high quality limestone in the Bow Valley located near shale deposits containing silica, alumina, and iron needed to create Portland Cement. The existence of a CPR line though the area to transport the cement across the county convinced the WCCC to buy the land in 1905, backed by CPR and the Bank of Monttreal. Land was cleared for the plant and an adjacent townsite that year.
Canadian Magazine May 1921 Toronto "Old Dan Diver at McMurray, a miner of wide experience, says he is going to pioneer the way to pay dirt and during 1920 experimented successfully with a new method of oil production. This process consists of sinking a shaft into the tar-sands and by means of an electrical heater frying the oil and gas from its retaining dross."
Wings to Fly By Cindy Lou Randall "Perhaps the earlist work was suggested by D.Diver, whose Diver Extraction Process was attempted in 1920. Diver attempted to ignite oil sands fro wells dug into the deposits. His process involved injecting a gas-powered flame into the well, whicj was intended to melt pools of bitumen large enough to be pumped to the surface. Although a notable effort. the Diver Process did not work." (near Fort McMurray)
Mining and Metallurgy: Published Monthly by the American ..., Issues 151-152 May 6, 1919 Canadian Pat. 190102 SEPERATOR for gold and silver D. Diver
Patented Sept. 28, 1909.
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1 D. DIVER.
FILTERING APPARATUS.
APPLIOATION FILED AUG. 3, 1908.
Patented Sept. 28, 1909.
2 SHEETS-SHEET 2.
DANIEL DIVER, OF DE EBFIELD, MICHIGAN.
FILTERING APPARATUS.
To all whom it may concern:
Be it known that I, DANIEL DIVER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Deerfield, inthe county of Lenawee and State of Michigan, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Filtering Apparatus, of which the following is a specification.
This invention is a drying and filtering apparatus particularly adapted for the purpose of drawing water from marl, clay, sand, and similar substances, and has for its object to provide an improved device of the kind, in which suction is utilized for the purpose of drawing out the water from the solid constituents of the material. The material is carried on an endless apron or sieve which passes over a suction box into which the water is drawn. The material is then separated from a screen by means of an air blast at the delivery end of the machine.
The invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawings in which Figure 1 is a side elevation of the machine; Fig. 2 is a longitudinal vertical section; Fig. 3 is a top plan view; Fig. i is a detail in section, enlarged, of the suction box.
Referring specifically to the drawings, 6 indicates a wooden or other frame of proper size and shape to support the parts to be hereinafter described. Mounted upon the front end of this frame is an agitator tank 7 having within the same a rotary beater comprising a shaft 8 with projecting arms 9, and this beater may be driven by power applied to a belt wheel 10 at the top of the shaft. The material is flowed into the beater through a pipe 11 or the like, and it flows from the same through a pipe 12 controlled by a valve 13. The frame supports an endless apron, filter or sieve 14 which may be made of woven wire or other fabric and which passes around rollers 15, 16, 17 and 18, properly supported in bearings on the machine. Ateach edge of the screen or apron it is attached to sprocket chains 19 which pass around sprocket wheels 20 on the shafts of each of the four rollers referred to above. The apron is thereby driven, power being applied to a belt wheel 21 on the shaft of the roller 16. Near the end of its upper run the sieve or apron passes over a flared suction box 22 which has a pipe 23 Specification of Letters Patent.
Application filed August 3, 1908.
Patented Sept. 28, 1909. Serial No. 446,679.
leading therefrom to any suitable exhaust apparatus. The top of this box consists of or is formed with a plurality of small rollers 2% which are placed a slight distance apart, and the screen H rests upon and passes over these rollers, and is sufficiently slack to bend over or upon the rollers, as shown in Fig. 4, and in this action the rollers give a certain amount of vibration or movement to the apron which prevents the packing or settling of the mass. In other words, the vibration breaks or loosens up the mass so that air can be drawn through the same, carrying with it any liquid or moisture which has failed to previously run off through the sieve. After passing the end roller 16 the sieve travels downwardly at an inclination to the bottom roller 17, and the solid matter remaining on the sieve is either dropped therefrom, or is blown off by means of a blast of air delivered from a pipe 25 with a flared nozzle or mouth 26. The rollers 24 are mounted in suitable bearings in the side pieces of the suction box and they revolve freely as the apron with the material thereon passes over the same.
The raw material entering the agitator 7 is thoroughly mixed by the beater arms and flows therefrom onto the endless apron, most of the water escaping through the apron before it reaches the suction box. On reaching this box and passing over the same, the suction removes the remaining moisture and leaves the material in a substantially dry state, the rollers acting, as previously stated, to prevent the formation of a solid or impenetrable mass, which permits the air to flow in through the material, carrying with it the water or moisture remaining therein, and on reaching the end of the table the matter is practically dry and will drop or can be blown off as described.
The apparatus will be found very effective as a means for drying and filtering marl, clays, and similar materials. Naturally the speed of the apron will be varied according to the necessities of the case; to produce the result desired.
I claim:
1. In a filter, the combination of a traveling sieve to carry the mass, and a suction box thereunder, having at the top a series of rollers over which the sieve passes, the sieve thereon, so that air can be drawn through 10 belng suffielently slack Where 1t passes over the same. the rollers to allow the sleve to bend upon In testnnony whereof, I affix my slgnature each roller and loosen or break the mass. in presence of tWo Witnesses.
2. I l L L t h i 11 an c ppcra us of t e klnd descr bed, DANIEL DIVER the c01nb1nat1on wlth a travehng foramlnous earner, and a suct1on box thereunder, of Htnesses: means to agltate that portlon of the earner ELIZABETH J. PRICE,
over the box, to break or loosen the mass SOPHIE C. GATZKE.
UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.
DANIEL DIVER, OF DEERFIELD, MICHIGAN.
APPARATUS FOR DRYING WET MATERIALS.
To all whom it may concern:
Be it known that I, DANIEL DIVER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Deerfield, in the county of Lenawee and State of Michigan, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Apparatus for Drying Vet Materials, of which the following is a specification.
This invention relates to apparatus for drying wet materials such as marl, slurries, limes, clays, peat, silicas, etc., for the purpose of reducing the moisture therein to a minimum, thereby reducing the cost of the subsequent burning or treatment to the lowest possible point.
The invention is also useful in washing clays, and extracting the water therefrom, so that they will work through ordinary clay-working dies.
The apparatus will dry peat to such an extent that it will be ready for the compressors.
The apparatus may be applied generally wherever it is desired to dry any wet mass to a desired extent or consistency.
The apparatus includes a rotary screen having therein a series of compartments, the screening or filtering fabric being placed on the periphery of a wheel which rotates in a box containing the material to be treated. By means of the vacuum pump or the like suction is applied to all of the compartments of the wheel except one, and as to that, a blast is applied. The suction acts to take up the material by causing the same to cling to the screen, and also draws or ex tracts the water therefrom, and finally it is blown from the screen by the compressed air or blast which, as stated, is applied to one of the compartments.
The construction and operation of the apparatus will be more fully apparent from the following description and the accompanying drawings.
In the drawings,Figure 1 is a vertical longitudinal section of the apparatus. Fig. 2 is a cross section on the line 22 of Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a section on the line 3-3 of Fig. 1. Fig. 1 is a section on the line 4 4: ofFig. 1.
Referring specifically to the drawings, 30 indicates the closed sides of a wheel mounted to rotate on a shaft 22 carriedin bearings on standards 31 and 32 between which is a box or trough 33 which contains the material to be treated. This wheel is divided by radial partitions 34 into a series Specification of Letters Patent.
Application filed May 4, 1909.
Patented Feb. 8, 1910. I claim:
In a drier, the combination of a trough a wheel divided into compartments each of which has a screen and arranged to rotate partly within the trough the hub of the wheel having separate passages communicating with said compartments respectively a vacuum tank, valved pipes extending from the same to said hub and arranged to reg ister with part of said passages in succession as the wheel turns and a blast pipe extending to the hub and arranged to register with the remainder of said passages in succession as the wheel turns.
In testimony whereof, I atfix my signature in presence of two witnesses.
DANIEL DIVER. lVitnesses ELIZABETH J. PRICE, CORA E. I'IEMPEL.
Official Gazette of the United States Patent Office, Volume 270 1,329,113 Machine for the seperation of gold, silver and platinum from sand. Daniel Diver Calgary, Alberta, Canada Filed May 10, 196 Ser no 96,555
E/MJ, Engineering and Mining Journal, Volume 105 Machine for seperating gold, silver and the like from sands. Daniel Diver Calgary, Alberta, Canada No 1,254,484 Jan. 22,1918
Find A Grave Birth: Aug. 1, 1862 Death: Jan. 6, 1939
DIVER--Jan. 6, Daniel, aged 77 years, beloved husband of Mrs. May Diver of 319 11th Ave. W. Rev. C. Bishop will officiate at services on Monday at 2 o'clock. The Albertan, Saturday, Jan. 7, 1939 (ourfutureourpast.ca newspaper collection, in the public domain)
Burial: Burnsland Cemetery Calgary Calgary Census Division Alberta, Canada Plot: Section L, Blk 8, Plot 155
Created by: Calgary Helpers Record added: Sep 14, 2014 Find A Grave Memorial# 135899317
Alberta, Canada, Deaths Index, 1870-1966 Name: Daniel Diver Gender: Male Death Date: 6 Jan 1939 Death Place: Calgary, Alberta, Canada Registration Number: 201-017
Reports of Deaths of American Citizens Abroad, 1835-1974 Name: Daniel Diver Age: 77 Birth Date: abt 1862 Death Date: 6 Jan 1939 Death Place: Canada
5/12/1899 Friday Next Tuesday the following join the Jackson party who have gone to the Great Slave lake; L F Mann, D Diver, Asa Stanberry, George Whitney, G E Holcomb Jr, Charles S Bird. 5/17/1899 WEDNESDAY GREAT SLAVE LAKE MINING CO. PARTY LEFT FOR THE GOLD COUNTRY TODAY This advance guard has left ST Paul for the North. The Great Slave Lake Mining company, a Jackson corporation, is to be represented in the gold country of the Northwest territory of Canada by nine young men, who have gone prepared to remain one year. The affairs of the company, which is comprised of Jackson capitalists, is directed by the following officers; President- W F Cowham Vice President- WW Child Tresurer- N S Potter Secretary- George W Ransom Directors- The officers and W M Thompson and H C Ransom The advance party, composed of Luclen Ransom, George Whitney, N S Potter jr and Fred Fisher, which left the city several days since, was heard from by wire yesterday. The information received was that they had left St Paul and were proceeding to Edmondton, Athabasca, which is to be the rendezvous of the prospectors. The remaining five members of the party departed this morning. They are; L F Mann, Ernest Holcomb, Asa Stanberry, C S Bird and David Diver a practical miner. The parties will consolidate at Edmondton which is the end of the railroad route. From that place they will travel with steam launches and canoes to the gold country via the Athabasca or Elk river, across Athabasca lake, down the Slave river to Great Slave lake, in which the Mackenzie river has it's source. The country is rich in mineral wealth. The men will prospect there and locate mines. It is hoped sucess will attend their efforts. 7/10/1899 Monday A letter received from one of the party of Jackson men enroute to the Great Slave Lake gold country, contains the information, under date of July 4, the party is pressing northward, though deserted by guides the party which left here in May, includes George S Whitney, Lucien S Ransom, Nathan S Potter Jr, Guy Holcomb Jr, Louis F Mann, Asa Stanbarg, David Diver, C S Bird and Fred Fisher.
Adrian Telegram 7/13/1901 Daniel Diver and wife were in Britton Monday.
9/7/1901 Daniel Diver went to Jackson Saturday.
9/28/1901 Daniel Diver was in Jackson on business.
7/8/1903 Dan Diver returned to his home Tuesday.
8/5/1903 Dan Diver was in Adrian on business Wednesday.
9/10/1903 Dan Diver was in Blissfield Saturday.
10/22/1903 Dan Diver returned from Ottawa, Canada Saturday. Mrs Roberts of Holloway is visiting the family of her nephew, Dan Diver.
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