BIO:  JAMES B. MANN - MERCER CO., KY

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Contributed by: Diana Flynn "ivie@tima.com"
Date: Monday, July 13, 1998 
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MANN,   SCHOOLING,   PAUL,   REED,   WHITE,   TURMAN

"HISTORY OF GREENE AND SULLIVAN COUNTIES, STATE OF
INDIANA, FROM THE EARLIEST TIME TO THE PRESENT; TOGETHER WITH INTERESTING
BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES, REMINISCENCES, NOTES, ETC." CHICAGO: GOODSPEED BROS.
& CO.,  PUBLISHERS. 1884.

SULLIVAN CO., INDIANA
TURMAN TWP.
PAGE 803

JAMES B. MANN, born in Mercer County, Ky., October 5, 1816, the
only son of six children of Josiah and Elizabeth (Schooling) Mann, was
brought to Indiana by his parents in 1819.  The father first located in
Gill Township, where he lived until June 4, 1838, when his death occurred.
His wife died November 7, 1854, and both lie buried in the Merom Cemetery.
James B. in youth was given a fair education for that early day, and when a
man commenced the work of life for himself as clerk in the store of Paul &
Reed, of Merom.  Here he continued two years, making his mother's house his
home.  In 1845, he had accumulated enough to buy a tract of 335 acres in
Turman Township, which he did, the land being the same as that upon which
Turman Fort stood during the war of 1812.  Here Mr. Mann has since lived
and labored.  March 24, 1844, he was united in  marriage with Miss Fidelia
Ann, daughter of Thomas and Lavina (White) Turman, and to this union the
following children have been born:  Elizabeth, born Janaury 19, 1845;
Lavina, born October 31, 1846;  Thomas J., born March 12,1848;  Mary, born
November 22, 1850;  James B., born September 26, 1853, and Charles A., born
September 2, 1861.  Mr. Mann is a Democrat, and as a man and a neighbor has
no superior in Sullivan County.  His famiy is old, prominent, and stands
without reproach.

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