Marshall-Jewell County KS Archives Biographies.....Manning, Joseph 1863 - 
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Author: Emma E. Forter (1917)

JOSEPH MANNING.

    Joseph Manning, one of Franklin township's well-known and substantial
farmers, an honored veteran of the Civil War and the owner of a fine farm of one
hundred and sixty acres in section 18 of that township, is a native of Ohio, but
has been a resident of Marshall county since 1870, when he came here from Iowa
with his family and settled in Franklin township, where he ever since has made
his home, one of the best-known pioneers of that part of the county. Joseph
Manning was born on a farm in Franklin township, Clermont county, Ohio, November
20, 1837, son of John and Ursula B. (Morgan) Manning, both natives of that same
state, the former of whom also was born in Clermont county, son of John Manning,
one of the earliest settlers in that part of the state.

    In 1850 the younger John Manning and his family left Ohio and moved to
Appanoose county, Iowa, where he established his home and where he and his wife
spent the remainder of their lives, honored pioneer residents of that county.
They were the parents of eleven chldren, of whom the subject of this sketch was
the fourth in order of birth. Joseph Manning was about thirteen years of age
when his parents moved to Iowa and he at once became a valued assistant to his
father in the labors of developing and improving the new homestead. He was
living there when the Civil War broke out and in August, 1862, he enlisted as a
private in Company I, Thirty-sixth Regiment, Iowa Volunteer Infantry, and served
with that command for three years, or until the close of the war. Upon the
completion of his military service, Mr. Manning returned to his home in Iowa and
on December 31, 1865, was united in marriage there to Maria I. Holshouser, who
was born in Putnam county, Indiana, August 30, 1849, fourth in order of birth of
the eight children born to her parents, Milus A. and Caroline (Atkinson)
Holshouser, the former a native of North Carolina and the latter of Indiana, who
moved from the Hoosier state to Iowa in 1850 and settled in Wapello county,
later moving to Appanoose county, where they spent their last days.

    A few years after his marriage Joseph Manning and his wife came to Kansas
and pre-empted a homestead of a quarter of a section of land in section 18 of
Franklin township, this county, with the view to establishing a home there, but
five years later returned to their old home in Appanoose county, Iowa, where
they remained until 1883, when they returned to their homestead farm in this
county and here have resided ever since, long having been regarded as among the
most substantial and influential residents of that part of the county. Mr.
Manning also owns a quarter of a section of land in Jewell county. For years he
has given considerable attention to the raising of Shorthorn cattle and formerly
was an exhibitor at county fairs and stock shows, once having received a prize
on his cattle at the county fair. Mr. Manning is a Republican and has ever given
a good citizen's attention to local political affairs, having held several
township offices at one time and another. He and his wife are members of the
Methodist church and have ever given their thoughtful attention to the affairs
of the same. To them six children have been born, namely: William A., who died
in infancy; Nevada A., who died at the old family home in Iowa on February 14,
1882, at the age of fourteen years; Edward A., now a bookkeeper in the office of
a cement factory at Kansas City, Missouri, who married Miss Nellie Faulkner, of
Marysville, and has two children, a son and a daughter; Gertrude M., who married
Clarence Bevers, a farmer living near Beattie, this county, and has one child, a
son; Hallie M., who married Dr. E. L. Wilson, Jr., of Marysville, and O. Clyde
Manning, who is at home assisting his father in the management of the home farm.
The Mannings have a very pleasant home and have ever taken a proper part in the
social activities of their home neighborhood, helpful in advancing all good
causes thereabout.


Additional Comments:
Extracted from:

History of Marshall County, Kansas: its people, industries, and institutions
by
Emma E. Forter

Indianapolis, Ind.: B.F. Bowen & Co. (1917)



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