Sonoma-Humboldt County CA Archives Biographies.....Manning, Nathaniel E. 1842 - 1873
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Author: Alley, Bowen & Co. (1880)

Manning, Nathaniel E. Born in Franklin county, Missouri, December 3, 1842,
youngest living son of John and Almeda Manning; was taken across the plains to
Oregon in 1842; thence to California in 1849, with his father's family; received
his first instruction in letters in a log school house in Oregon; next attended
the first school that was ever taught in Sonoma county, in Green valley, taught
by a Baptist minister named Lindsley; attended the Santa Rosa Academy in
1858-'59, three terms of five months each. Then procured a certificate for
teaching, at the age of eighteen years, and taught a three months' term of
school in Stony Point School District. The Nevada mines at that time creating
considerable excitement, he quit school teaching, and went in the Summer of 1861
to Virginia City, and from there to the Humboldt mines, but being very
successful at mining, returned to Petaluma in 1865, when he engaged in business
with his father and J. L. Waters; was also a member of the San Francisco and
Humboldt Bay Railroad Company. After the failure of the business firm of Manning
& Son, tried various kinds of employment, until finally engaged with Messrs.
Heald & Green in their saw-mill at Guerneville, in October, 1871, where he
filled various positions, and finally that of book-keeper, which position he
held for two years. Mr. Manning is a member of the Masons, Odd Fellows, and Good
Templars. Was run on the Temperance ticket for County Recorder in the Fall of
1864, and was of course beaten. He took a very active part in the adoption of
the New Constitution in 1879, and was brought before the New Constitution
Convention for Representative in the Legislature. Was married, April 3, 1867, to
Miss Kate R. Stanly, of Petaluma, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Stanly. He has
grown up with Sonoma county, as you might say, from a state of barbarism to one
of high culture and civilization; has seen its schools rise from a primitive
condition to be among the best in the State; the places that were once the
haunts of the ferocious grizzly bear, covered with wheat and corn; and where
once bounded the wild deer, are seen bountiful orchards, comfortable farm
houses, churches and school-houses.

Additional Comments:
Redwood Township

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HISTORY
—OF-
SONOMA COUNTY,
-INCLUDING ITS—
Geology, Topooraphy, Mountains, Valleys and Streams;
—TOGETHER WITH—
A Full and Particular Record of the Spanish Grants; Its Early History and
Settlement, Compiled from the Most Authentic Sources; the Names of Original
Spanish and American Pioneers; a full Political History, Comprising the Tabular
Statements of Elections and Office-holders since the Formation of the County;
Separate Histories of each Township, Showing the Advancement of Grape and Grain
 Growing Interests, and Pisciculture;
ALSO, INCIDENTS OF PIONEER LIFE; THE RAISING OF THE BEAR FLAG; AND BIOGRAPHICAL
SKETCHES OF EARLY AND PROMINENT SETTLERS AND REPRESENTATIVE MEN;
—AND OF ITS—
Cities, Towns, Churches, Schools, Secret Societies, Etc., Etc.
ILLUSTRATED.
SAN FRANCISCO:
ALLEY, BOWEN & CO., PUBLISHERS.
1880.


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