Mr. Speaker. on November 12. 1991. California lost a beloved citizen and valued witness to American history. Robert Sylvanus Dailey. What distinguished him was not only his longevityhe lived to the age of 101but the life he lived. a life that embodied the pioneer spirit of the old West. His grandparents Immigrated to America from England and Denmark. settling In Utah with the earliest Mormon settlers. Traveling by covered wagon westward to Wyoming. his family settled in the 1890s. From pioneer beginnings. Mr. Daileys biography Is a threat through the American century. waving through the sparsely populated Rocky Mountain West.
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