Manning, John

MANNING, ARNOLD, FULTON, TOMLINSON

Posted By: Mary H. Cochrane, Volunteer
Date: 7/2/2019 at 10:49:32

Biographical and Historical Record of Ringgold and Decatur Counties, Iowa, (Lewis Publishing Company (1887)), pp. 647-48:

"JOHN MANNING, section 32, Grand River Township, is a native of Indiana, born in Wayne County, August 13, 1851, a son of Jacob and Rachel (Arnold) Manning, natives of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. When he was three years of age his parents moved to Decatur County, Iowa, and located five miles northeast of Leon, in Center Township, where he was reared, his youth being spent in assisting his father on the farm, receiving a common-school education. In 1881 he located on his present farm, which contains 160 acres of land under a high state of cultivation, with a good residence and farm buildings. It is one of the best stock farms in the township, well watered with springs and running streams, and he is one of the successful stock-raisers of the county, feeding at the present time about three carloads of cattle. Mr. Manning was married January 10, 1875, to Miss Arilda J. Fulton, a native of Ross County, Ohio, but reared in Washington County, Iowa, where her parents, Wade and Harriet (Tomlinson) Fulton, moved when she was a child. To them have been born two sons - Charles, born March 6, 1877, and Frank, born February 23, 1880. In politics Mr. Manning is a Republican. He is the fifth of a family of seven children, the others being -- Benjamin, Amos, Elizabeth, Fanny, Nathaniel and Sidney. Mrs. Manning is the eldest of nine children, her brothers and sisters being -- Tarlton, Alonzo, Eliza, Albert, Edgar, Wade, William and Alpha."

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