. 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 .. . mself 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 a
. 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 .. . mself 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 residence in the Empire State,which has since been his home. Moving to NewYork city, he entered the service of the MutualLife Insurance Co. in the actuarys department,and remained there for the next seven years. Hethen spent a year as secretary of the Hartford Life. II. S. MAXXLXG & Annuity Co., but returned to New York at theexpiration of that time as the agent of the JohnHancock Mutual Life Insurance Co. His connec-tion with the life insurance business lasted until1886, when he moved to Albany, and becametraveling agent for the Albany Chemical Co., oneof the most important and successful establishmentsof its kind in the country. This position he stillholds. But Mr. Manning is most widely known as awriter and speaker on questions of the day. Hehas published many articles on the subject of lifeinsurance, and has attained considerable reputationas an expert in this line. Of greater general interest,however, are his writings on ([uestions of political economy and finance. Many of these have ap-peared in the American Economist, as well as innewsp
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