Greenbrier County, West Virginia    Biography: Newton A. MANN

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Transcribed and submitted by Ed Johnson, <EDEAJ @aol.com>, 1998.
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NEWTON A. MANN - is one of the farming residents of Falling Spring district,
Greenbrier County, and is largely engaged in stock-raising.  His birth was
in Monroe County, (then) Virginia, August 5, 1839, and he made his home in
Greenbrier County in 1855.  In the same year his parents, Jefferson T. and
Rebecca (Arnold) MANN, settled here.  Both were born in Monroe county, his
father in 1806 and his mother in 1815.  She is still living in this county,
and Jefferson T. MANN died in prison, in April, 1862.  Newton A. MANN served
in the Federal cause as a member of a State company of scouts, subject to
the laws of West Virginia, during the last year of the civil war.  In 1861
he was arrested for Union principles, as was his father, and he was sent of
Libby prison, thence to Salisbury, North Carolina.  In Greenbrier County,
December 16, 1874, were recorded the marriage vows of Newton A. MANN and
Emma Brown, and their three children were born:  Everett Ellsworth, August
25, 1875;  Homer Hamilton, February 13, 1877;  Rowena Rose, July 19, 1878.
The wife of Mr. MANN was born in Nicholas County, May 8, 1853, and her
father was Andrew Hamilton Brown, born in Greenbrier County in 1820, her
mother Sabina Beard, born in Pocahontas County, October 10, 1815.  Her
mother is still living in this county, and her father departed this life
April 2, 1863.  Newton a. MANN's postoffice address is Frankford,
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.