Biographical Sketch of Samuel J. Manes, Pulaski County, Missouri

>From "History of Laclede, Camden, Dallas, Webster, Wright, Texas,
 Pulaski, Phelps & Dent Counties, Missouri, Published 1889, Goodspeed
 Publishing Company.

Transcribed by: Penny Harrell (Incog3678@aol.com)

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Samuel J. Manes, an attorney at law of Richland, was born in Miller
County, MO., in 1840, and is the son of Jacob W. and Emeline (Hice)
Manes, natives of Tennessee and North Carolina, respectively.  The
parents were early settlers of Miller County, where they were married
about 1834, and there they spent the remainder of their lives, with
the exception of four years spent in Arkansas.  The father, who was
a farmer by occupation, served eighteen years as justice of the 
peace in Miller and Ozark Counties, and died in the latter county in
1852.  The mother is still living, and has been a member of the 
Baptist Church for sixty-four years, of which church her husband was
also a member.  The paternal grandfather, Seth Manes, was of Welsh
descent, and was a Revolutionary soldier.  He died in Hawkins County,
Tenn.  At the early age of thirteen years Samuel J. Manes engaged in
farming, and a few years later he learned the blacksmith's trade, 
which he followed with remarkable success until 1885.  He then aban-
doned his trade and took up the study of law, and was admitted to the
practice of the legal profession in October, 1886, since which time
he has earned for himself a place in the ranks of the successful 
attorneys of Pulaski County.  He has an extensive practice, which is
steadily increasing.  He was elected justice of the peace in 1886, 
of which office he is the present incumbent.  He was a soldier in 
the late war in the United States army, in Company A, Sixty-fifth
Illinois Infantry Regiment, and was mustered out at the close of the
war in Greensborough, N.C.  Mr. Manes was first married in 1857, to
Abigail Lane, who died in 1858, and the following year he married 
Margaret Reed, who was the mother of six children:  J.T., J.O., W.J.,
S.J., A.E. and M.J. Manes.  His third wife was Mary E. Burhans, whom
he married in 1872, and who was the mother of two children, Ida M.
and Bertha E.  In 1888 Mr. Manes married Lucinda Long, who still 
survives, and is a member of the Baptist Church.  She is the mother
of one child, S. J. Manes, and is a noble wife.  Mr. Manes owns 160 
acres of land two and one-half miles from Richland, as well as some
good property in town.  He is clerk of the Baptist Church, a Republican
in politics, and an enterprising citizen.

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