Major Daniel Smith was schooled in Durham, New Hampshire and learned the business of land surveyor.  In 1850,  he was commissioned lieutenant-colonel of the Twenty-fifth Regiment of New Hampshire militia.   In 1854, he moved to Dover and from 1855 to 1860 he was a deputy sheriff of Strafford County.  He was a representative to the New Hampshire legislature in 1860 and 1861.  Smith was appointed a commissioned major to the Seventh Regiment on October 15, 1861.  He travelled with the regiment to Fort Jefferson and served as the provost marshal.  At the time the regiment was transferred to Beaufort, S.C., Smith was seized by a fever and allowed to return home on leave.  He died there on August 26, 1862.   (p. 471).