[2] He was born in 1854 in Revere, Massachusetts, the fifth child in a family of eight children..[3] In 1896 he appeared in The Lady Slavey in New York co-starring Marie Dressler.

He was surprisingly nimble and graceful, and his acrobatic feats were at once a marvel to the audience and a source of fear to the company.

Once he dragged the young woman who was playing "opposite" him through a property window with such violence that her knee cap was fractured.

[6] Daly had contracted tuberculosis, and died on March 26, 1904, at the age of 40, from a pulmonary hemorrhage at the Hotel Vendome in Manhattan.

[10] According to fellow comedian Eddie Foy Sr., Daly subsisted on a diet of snails and champagne for the last two years of his life: One of the millions of mysterious happenings in the history of human psychology is that strange mental twist which seized upon Dan not so long after this and caused him to subsist during the last two years of his life entirely on snails.