Howard County IN Archives Biographies.....Mann, William F. 1822 - 
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Author: Jackson Morrow

WILLIAM F. MANN.

   William F. Mann, the present official engineer of Kokomo, is a son of John
and Barbara Mann, the father a native of Monroe county, West Virginia, where his
birth occurred on the 1st of August, 1822, the mother born in Shenandoah county,
Virginia, to which part of the Old Dominion state her parents, Andrew and
Barbara (Thurman) Fettie, removed many years ago from Pennsylvania. After
remaining in the state of his birth until 1837, John Mann accompanied his
parents upon their removal to Henry county, Indiana, where, during the ensuing
thirteen years he supported himself as a farm laborer, but at the expiration of
that period he came to Howard county and located on eighty acres of woodland in
what is now Union township, which he had purchased a few years previous and
which under his labor was in due time cleared and transformed into one of the
finest farms and most attractive rural homes in that section of the country.
John Mann and Barbara Fettie became husband and wife in the year 1848, two years
before their removal to their new home in the backwoods of Howard county, their
union being blessed with two children, a daughter by the name of Christina, who
is now the wife of J. G. Brown, and William F., whose name introduces this sketch.

   William F. Mann was born on the home place in Union township. As soon as old
enough to be of service he was put to work in the woods and during the years
that followed he did his part in clearing and developing the farm, devoting the
spring, summer and fall to study in the district school not far from his home.
After obtaining a good common school education he entered the Spiceland Academy
where he prosecuted his studies until completing the prescribed course and
graduating in 1875, following which he turned his attention to teaching and was
thus engaged during the ensuing five winter seasons, spending the rest of the
time reading law in the office of O'Brien & Garrigus, at Kokomo. He subsequently
entered the law department of Michigan University where in due time he finished
his professional course and received his degree, being graduated with a
creditable record with the class of 1882. Returning to Kokomo he was nominated
for county surveyor on the Republican ticket, and at the ensuing election
defeated his competitor by a large majority and at the proper time entered upon
the duties of his office. At the expiration of his first term he was honored by
a re-nomination, his victory at the polls following on account of his fitness
for the office. Since retiring from the office of county surveyor he has been
continuously engaged as a civil engineer in Howard and other counties and
wherever employed his professional work has been eminently satisfactory to all
parties concerned.

   In 1902 Mr. Mann was appointed official engineer for the city of Kokomo for a
term of four years and so well did he discharge the duties of the position that
he was chosen his own successor in 1906 for an additional four years' term,
which he is now serving with credit to himself and justice to the public.

   Mr. Mann has been an active worker in the Republican ranks. He is a Mason of
high standing and is also identified with the Benevolent and Protective Order of
Elks.

   Mr. Mann has never assumed the duties and responsibilities of married life.
He looked after his fathers interests until the latter's death on October 22d of
the year 1903, since which time he has given considerable attention to his
widowed mother, to whose welfare he is devoted and whose business affairs he
manages with the fidelity becoming a true and manly son. She is now living with
her great-grandson on the old family homestead in Union township to which she
came when the country was new and on which she has resided continuously for a
period of forty-eight years.


Additional Comments:
From:

HISTORY OF HOWARD COUNTY INDIANA
BY
JACKSON MORROW, B. A.
ILLUSTRATED
VOL. II
B. F. BOWEN & COMPANY
INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA

(circa 1909)


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