Greenbrier County, West Virginia    Biography: Benjamin Franklin MANN

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Transcribed and submitted by Valerie Crook, <vfcrook @earthlink.net>, 1998.
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BENJAMIN FRANKLIN MANN - born in Greenbrier County, September 2S, 1854, 
has been a resident here all his life, and in Irish Corner district, 
is prosperously conducting an extensive farm, and dealing in cattle. 
Thomas MANN his father, was born in Greenbrier County, January 31, 
1821, West Virginia. He may he addressed at Second Creek, Greenbrier 
County, West Virginia. (Evidently a printer's error, there is a 
break in this paragraph in the original source), mother of R. F. 
MANN, whose name before marriage was Elizabeth FREELAND, was born 
in Indiana, September 26, 1823, came to Greenbrier County in 1849, 
and is still living in Irish Corner district, April 13, 1881, in 
Pocahontas County, West Virginia, Benjamin F. MANN and Ella A. 
BEARD recorded their marriage vows, and on the 17th of July, 1882, 
their son Thomas Freeland was born. The birth of Ella A. BEARD was 
in Monroe County, (now) West Virginia, on the 13th of March, 1855, 
and S. W. and Sarah (HINCHMAN) BEARD are her parents. Benjamin F. 
MANN's post office address is Fort Spring, Greenbrier County, 
West Virginia.

Source:  Hardesty, Henry H.  Hardesty's Historical and Geographical
Encyclopedia.  New York: H.H. Hardesty and Company, 1884.
Rpt. in West Virginia Heritage Encyclopedia.  Ed. Jim Comstock.
Richwood: Comstock, 1974.