The National cyclopædia of American biography : being the history of the United States as illustrated in the lives of the founders, builders, and defenders of the republic, and of the men and women who are doing the work and moulding the thought of the present time, edited by distinguished biographers, selected from each state, revised and approved by the most eminent historians, scholars, and statesmen of the day . OF AMERICAN BIOGKAPHT. 309. cellor -when he died by poison at Richmond June8, 1806. A nephew was tried for the murder andacquitted. MANNING, John Alexander, manufacturer,was born i
The National cyclopædia of American biography : being the history of the United States as illustrated in the lives of the founders, builders, and defenders of the republic, and of the men and women who are doing the work and moulding the thought of the present time, edited by distinguished biographers, selected from each state, revised and approved by the most eminent historians, scholars, and statesmen of the day . OF AMERICAN BIOGKAPHT. 309. cellor -when he died by poison at Richmond June8, 1806. A nephew was tried for the murder andacquitted. MANNING, John Alexander, manufacturer,was born in Troy, N. Y., Aug. 8,1838. His father,William H., was about the first manufacturer ofpaper from manilla rOpe, the strongest paper early education of the son was received in theTroy academy, but at the age of seventeen he wasobliged to leave his school studies, and aid his fatherin the management of his rapidlygrowing business. At the timeof his fathers death in 1855, hehad but one moderate-sized mill,but under the wise foresight anddriving energy of the son, twoother mills were built. Mr. Man-ning has been for many years thelargest manufacturer of ropemanilla paper in the world, ship-ments being constantly made toall parts of the globe. He wasthe first to make a satisfactorypaper for flour sacks, now souniversally used throughout theUnited States. In addition to themanagement of his immense man-ufacturing interests, Mr. Manni
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