[4] Around 1845, he was reading law in Mineral Point, and became involved as spotter and getaway driver for a buggy from which future Wisconsin Supreme Court justice Samuel Crawford shot a disgruntled client with whom his firm was feuding.
[5] In 1848, DeLany was living and practicing law in Stevens Point when he was elected to the Assembly's Portage County seat for the 1849 session (the 2nd Wisconsin Legislature), replacing fellow Democrat James M. Campbell.
[14] After the war he reportedly "drifted away" to Nebraska, eventually settling in North Platte with a legal practice there,[15] and married a woman from Kentucky.
Delaney (known locally as Colonel De Lany or DeLany) was elected a justice of the peace in Lincoln County, Nebraska, in November 1881.
[16] He began showing symptoms of mental illness, and was committed to the Nebraska Asylum for the Insane, in which he soon died on October 29, 1882, of what was described as "acute mania".