. The men of New York: a collection of biographies and portraits of citizens of the Empire state prominent in business, professional, social, and political life during the last decade of the nineteenth century .. . ourse of a long and busy lifehas interested hinvself in manv widely differingsubiects. A brief sketch of his ancestry mavnot be amiss ; and the fact that two of his great-grandfathers fought in the revolutionary war mayindicate the source of his own ardent Mannings were among the first settlers of Ply-mouth Rock ; and Samuel Manning, the great-grand-father of our pre


. The men of New York: a collection of biographies and portraits of citizens of the Empire state prominent in business, professional, social, and political life during the last decade of the nineteenth century .. . ourse of a long and busy lifehas interested hinvself in manv widely differingsubiects. A brief sketch of his ancestry mavnot be amiss ; and the fact that two of his great-grandfathers fought in the revolutionary war mayindicate the source of his own ardent Mannings were among the first settlers of Ply-mouth Rock ; and Samuel Manning, the great-grand-father of our present subject, took part in the famous Boston tea party, and was one of the band who,disguised as Mohawk Indians, boarded the Englishships and threw the obnoxious cargo into the same Manning fought in the battles of Concordand Lexington. His son, of the same name, gradu-ated from Harvard College about 1798, and became one of the most prominent physicians in Massachu-setts ; while the Samuel Manning of the thirdgeneration, after attaining unusual distinction inHarvard College, settled in Baltimore and becamea leading lawyer there. Mr. Mannings maternalgrandfather was (^olonel Thomas Sheppard, the son. joH.\ i\ .\f( of a revolutionary soldier, and himself an activepatriot in the later English war. W. S. Manning was born in Baltimore in ls;!4,and was educated in that city. He took a degreein civil engineering at St. Marys College, and atonce began work in his profession on the Baltimore& Ohio railroad, then in course of with this com])anv until the completionof the road, Mr. Manning then acted for a time asassistant city .surveyor of Baltimore ; but he soonabandoned the life of an engineer, and began busi-ness as superintendent and half owner of the .\valonNail & Iron Works, near Baltimore. In 1859 Mr. Manning began his long connectionwith the business of life insurance, and at the same 26 MKA OF XEIV VORK^ SECT/OX time took up his


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