Milo A. MANNING

MANNING, WEST, PAUSTAIN

Posted By: Sarah Thorson Little (email)
Date: 4/18/2015 at 16:21:34

October 16, 1860 --- April 5, 1953

Milo A. Manning, railroad Official, banker and legislator, died at Ames, Iowa, April 5, 1953; born at Lanark, Carroll county, Illinois, October 16, 1860; educated in the public schools and completed a business college course at Aledo, Illinois; learned telegraphy at Clarence, Iowa, and became an extra operator and agent in 1879 for the C. & N. W. railway ultimately becoming train dispatcher at Eagle Grove and Boone, Iowa; later held like position at Rawlings, Wyoming, for the Union Pacific railway; went into the mercantile business in 1888 at Crawford, Nebraska, and later at Sheldon, Iowa; in 1903 moved to Ames, organized the Ames Savings bank and served as its cashier until 1912, when he sold his interest in that bank and organized the Commercial Savings bank, being its president for a number of years; a member of the Thirty-fifth General Assembly, city treasurer for eight years and later widely known as the assessor at Ames and retired in 1946 at the age of 35; married Clara West in Ames April 6, 1887; a republican and member of the Masonic bodies; survived by two sons, Truman of Ames and Merrill of Bayside, Long Island, New York, and a daughter, Mrs. Margaret Paustain of Ames, six grandchildren and thirteen great grandchildren.

The Annals of Iowa 32 (1953), 79.
http://ir.uiowa.edu/annals-of-iowa/vol32/iss1/11