Harrison County Iowa Genealogy

HISTORY OF HARRISON COUNTY, IOWA, 1891
BIOGRAPHIES
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THOMAS MANN

Thomas MANN, who has been a resident of Harrison County for twenty-one years, is now comfortably located at his farm home on section 29, of Lincoln Township. He came to the country in company with his parents, who bought forty acres of land, with some improvements thereon, near the village of Woodbine. The father worked this land, while Thomas, of whom we write, worked out by the month for about two years, he being sixteen years old at the time. Later on he worked land for himself and for others by the month, his sister keeping house for him part of the time, and he keeping "bachelor's hall" the remainder of the time. He continued to do this until about 1880, when he bought one hundred and sixty acres of land, which forms part of his present home place. Subsequently he added forty acres to this tract, giving him two hundred acres in all, which is under a high state of cultivation. Mr. MANN is a native of Glasgow, Scotland, and was born March 20, 1856, and remained in his native land until he was fourteen years old, when he emigrated, with his parents, to America, landing in New York Harbor and taking the cars, making Woodbine their first stop.

His parents were John and Sarah (EADIE) MANN, natives of Scotland, who reared a family of six children, as follows: Sarah, John, Thomas, James, Mary and Jesse. They all live in Harrison County, except Sarah, who is in Nebraska. He has ever been a hard worker, but will agree with nearly every foreign born person who comes to our shores from the Old World, that this country excels all others under the shining sun, to repay men for the toil and hardships they may be enabled to endure.

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