PROFILE OF GEORGE E. MAMM PLAQUEMINES PARISH LOUISIANA
Submitted by: Gladys Stovall Armstrong 
From "The Protector 23 June 1900"



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GEORGE E. MAMM
Born 6 September, 1852 near Nicolas in Prussia, Silesia, where his father 
Eugene Mann was the founder and owner of the present day “Mann-Hatten” 
Pig Iron Works. He removed to Bresian at an early age and there received 
his college education and upon the death of his father in 1866, came to 
Pioria, Illinois where he was taken under the guardianship of his aunt, 
Mrs. Robert Strehlow.

Young Mann, not liking the Confinement and duties of a strict commercial 
life, set out for the West, where he fell in with its well-to-do farmers 
of the Memonite sect, after roaming through the different Western states, 
he enlisted for the Cuban Revolution of 1870, but upon reaching New Orleans 
the vessel was seized and its plans failed.

Being unable to find suitable employment, he shipped out for the Belair 
Plantation of honest John Dymond, where in spite of the hardships and

hardest work a stranger must usually contend with, Mr. Mann began at 
the bottom of the ladder, but after only two years, diligent work was 
made resident overseer of the Woodlawn Plantation and the following year 
1879 of the Fanny Plantation, in which year occurred the disastrous 
Greenwood Crevasse, when Mr. Mann’s ability at handling large forces 
was highly appreciated.

In 1876, he married the daughter if the esteemed late F.B. Ball of 
Gloucestershire, England, of which union a son, George Mann, Jr....a 
diligent student of the Louisiana State University is the only issue.

Later Mr. Mann managed the Live Oak Plantation, and the following year 
became the owner of it, but the unfortunate crecasse of 1884 ruined Mr. 
Mann’s accumulations.

Mr. Mann, in partenrship with honest Walter Flower, New Orleans’ able 
ex-mayor, owns the Stella Plantation where Louisiana’s favored products, 
cane and rice are growned in profusion under the wise management of the 
experienced gentleman.

Mr. Mann has served his parish, as a member of the School Board during 
the past four years and has ever been alive to its interest. He has 
figured prominently in all charitable organizations and his legion of 
friends rank among the poor as well as the rich.