In a discussion of the town of Jamestown in Grant County, Wisconsin, C. Holford lists John DAIGH as assessor in 1849, the year in which the town was organized.

(Source: *History of Grant County Wisconsin: Including its Civil, Political, Geological, Mineralogical, Archaeological and Military History and a History of the Several Towns,* by Castello N. Holford. Originally published in 1900 by The Teller Print, Lancaster, Wisconsin. Page 584)