Multnomah County OR Archives Biographies.....Manning, William G. 
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Source: History of the Columbia River Valley From The Dalles to the Sea, Vol. III, Published 1928, Pages 338 - 339
Author: The S. J. Clarke Publishing Company

     WILLIAM G. MANNING.  The progressive and enterprising spirit so 
characteristic of the west has marked the career of William G. Manning, 
president of the Manning Warehouse & Transfer Co., of Portland. He has 
achieved success and is now numbered among this city's substantial business 
men. A native of this city he is a son of George F. and Harriet B. (Noonan) 
Manning. The family was established here by his paternal grandfather, Henry F. 
Manning, who located here in 1849 and devoted his active years to farming 
pursuits. George F. Manning was born in Portland and for many years engaged in 
mercantile pursuits, retiring sometime prior to his death, which occurred in 
1913. His wife was a native of county Galway, Ireland, from which country, in 
1875, she was brought to Portland in her girlhood and she is still a resident 
of this city.

     William G. Manning attended the public schools and then entered St. 
Michael's College, in this city, from which he was graduated in 1898. He then 
enlisted for service in the Spanish-American war and at the close of that 
short but decisive conflict was honorably discharged. In 1899 he went to work 
in the freight house of the Northern Pacific Railroad, but later went to the 
Holman Transfer Company, with which he remained until August 1, 1907. He then 
organized the Overland Transfer Company, of which he was president, and 
carried on that business successfully until 1911, when he sold and established 
his present business, under the name of the Manning Ware¬house & Transfer Co., 
of which he has been the executive head continuously since. The business was 
first located at Thirteenth and Everett streets, but was later moved to its 
present location at 403-5-7-9 Hoyt street, where it occupies a seven-story 
building of mill construction and containing seventy thousand square feet of 
space. The building is equipped with an automatic sprinkler system and is 
admirably adapted to the purpose for which it is used. Mr. Manning does a 
general warehouse business, handling merchandise and household goods, operates 
seven trucks and employs thirty persons.

     	Mr. Manning was united in marriage to Miss Ann A. Wentz, who was born 
at The Dalles, Oregon, and they are the parents of two children, Bernice and 
Richard, the latter a student in the University of Oregon. Mr. Manning is a 
member of the Benevolent Protective Order of Elks and the Alderwood Country 
Club, while in his political views he is a republican. He gives his close 
attention to his business, which, under his management, has shown a steady and 
satisfactory growth and is now one of the leading establishments in its line 
in Portland. 

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