BIO:  John A. Manifold, York County, PA

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History of York County, Pennsylvania.  John Gibson, Historical Editor.
Chicago: F. A. Battey Publishing Co., 1886.
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Part II, Biographical Sketches, Hopewell Township, Pg 115

JOHN A. MANIFOLD, son of Salem and Lizzie T. Manifold, was born in Fawn Township, 
York Co., Penn., March 9, 1830.  His great-great-grandfather, Edward Manifold, 
emigrated from England before 1776.  Subject’s father was born December 6, 1799, 
in Fawn Township, York County, but spent the latter part of his life in Hopewell 
Township.  He had eleven children, of whom John A. is the eldest.  While the 
latter was yet a child, his parents moved to Hopewell Township.  In 1850 he began 
learning the carpenter’s trade, and moved to Indiana in 1854, where he remained 
six years.  He then went to Missouri, where he remained six years, returning to 
Hopewell Township, where he has since resided.  He married Emeline Diling, of 
Indiana, and they have four children living:  Eliza M., Franklin S., Cora W. and 
Alonzo J.  The farm on which Mr. Manifold resides, and which contains seventy-six 
acres, he purchased in 1865.  He and his wife and family are members of the 
Methodist Episcopal Church of Zion.