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Author: Arthur P. Rose (1908)

  MILTON P. MANN, real estate dealer, Worthington, is one of the pioneer

residents of Nobles county, having lived here for thirty-five years. He was born

in Fulton county, Pennsylvania, November 2, 1857, the son of James A. and Mary

J. (Stillwell) Mann, both of whom were natives of Pennsylvania. The father died

at Worthington in 1874; the mother is still living in Portland, Oregon.



  During the first ten years of his life Milton Mann lived in the county of his

birth, removing with his: parents in 1867 to Bedford county, in the same state.

There, at the town of Everett, he began his schooling, The family came west a

few years later, arriving in the little village of Worthington in March, 1873.

For two years after the arrival in Nobles county Milton lived with his parents

on a farm in Lorain township. Then he moved to Worthington, and that city has

been his place of residence ever since. He attended the Worthington public

school and for a time was a student at the Worthington seminary, that

institution of higher learning established by Prof. K. F. Humiston, at about the

time he founded the city of Worthington.



  In 1876 our subject entered the employ of Daniel Shell, who was at that time

proprietor of the Worthington hotel, and for five years was clerk at that famous

hostelry. Then, in 1881, he became an employe of the Nobles County Bank, whose

president was then Peter Thompson. During the next fourteen years of his life he

was identified with that institution, for a time as bookkeeper, and later as

cashier. After the failure of the bank—the result of the panic of 1893—Mr. Mann

took a prominent part in the reorganization of the institution.



  After severing his connection with the banking business in 1895 he and Daniel

Shell founded the real estate firm of Shell & Mann, which had an existence of

eleven years. In 1906 the firm was dissolved and Mr. Mann has since that time

conducted a real estate office for himself.



  Mr. Mann was elected city treasurer of Worthington in 1892 and was reelected

the following year. In 1903 and 1904 he served as a member of the city council,

and in 1904 and 1905 he was a member of the school board of independent district

No. 5.



  His marriage to Millie Montgomery occurred at Worthington on December 4, 1883.

Four children have blessed this union, namely: Clinton L., James M., Grace

VanEtten and Genevieve Orlina, all of whom are living at Worthington. Mr. Mann

is an active church worker and has been a member of the Congregational church of

Worthington since January, 1875.



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AN ILLUSTRATED HISTORY OF NOBLES COUNTY

MINNESOTA

BY

ARTHUR P. ROSE



NORTHERN HISTORY PUBLISHING COMPANY 



WORTHINGTON, MINNESOTA 

PUBLISHERS

1908



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