Daniel was born in August 1920. Even as a depressed inside child, he was pretty much the subject of abuse by bullies older than him. Nicholas harassed him even on a soccer day. He even got yanked in the pants by Asaph Buchanan as they parted their ways in World War 2.
Although his favourite friends were Cynthia Thompson Preston and Ellie Tucker, both of whom were his exes, they didn't like his attitude and both divorced him, the former many times but the latter only once. Cynthia married his colleague Gary Preston and birthed Andrew Preston in 1969. Ellie became single for much of her life.
He wasn't lucky in love either. Before both got married in March 1959, he got assaulted by his colleague-turned-wife plus rival Marjorie Daisy Murdoch Sloane, the daughter of maid Daisy Murdoch, the wife of Daniel's family friend and earlier boss John Sloane. On April 9th 1960, their only child together, Nina Cortlandt Warner, was born. He abandoned Marjorie Daisy seven years later, as she left him behind for more work to do, but he lied a lot in order not to reveal her presence anyway.
He then met Opal Sue Passmore Nazarbayeva Purdy (daughter of Eric Korak Passmore and Hannah's son Jackie Passmore, and Marvin Nazarbayev and Katina Pushkina's daughter Melina Nazarbayeva, the parents who also birthed Will Nazarbayev Cortlandt), ex of Jason Purdy who killed his daughter (with her) Jenny Purdy (born 1962) in the woods in 1983, who later became a Cortlandt, in 1989. They then birthed Peter William Cortlandt in Christmas 1992. They then divorced, making him even more vulnerable to pervy women.
His least favourite wives were Natalie Green Hunter Dillon (died 1993), who also had a living, psychotic depressed psychopathic younger adopted sister named Janet Gull Blu (she was abused as a baby by her birth parents Grizzly Mac Blu and Shawnee Thill Blu, then got adopted out as a teen by hapless doctors Melvin Green and Joan Curtis Green), and Vanessa Szyslak Bennett (died 2002), a much older cousin of Moe Szyslak. He died in 2010.