– March 3, 1856) was an American storekeeper from Rosendale, Wisconsin who spent two one-year terms representing Fond du Lac County as a member of the first two Wisconsin State Assemblies, the first as a Whig, the second as a member of the newly organized Free Soil Party.
[3] In 1846, Daugherty opened a store in Rosendale for "Fay & Collins", the first retail business in the two-year-old settlement.
In 1848, upon Wisconsin becoming a state, he was elected a member of the first Fond du Lac County board of supervisors.
He was re-elected in 1848 for the second Assembly, which met from January 10 to April 2, 1849, but by this time he had switched his allegiance to the newly organized Free Soil Party.
In 1849 he was elected a vice-president of the newly organized Wisconsin Agricultural Society for Fond du Lac County.