Daniel Morehouse was born in a log cabin in Mankato Minnesota on February 22, 1876, and received his early education in Grant County, South Dakota.

[3] For this discovery Morehouse received the Donohue Comet Medal from the Astronomical Society of the Pacific.

[6] From 1921 through 1922 Dr. Morehouse supervised the construction of the Drake Municipal Observatory, which has been used for public lectures and telescopic observations for over 100 years.

[4] In 1930 Morehouse was elected chairman of the astronomical division of The American Association for the Advancement of Science.

[2] The ashes of Dr. Morehouse, and those of his wife Myrtle, are interred within the wall of the Drake Municipal Observatory rotunda.