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MANN, Job, representative, was born in Bed- ford county, Pa., March 31, 1795. He became clerk to the board of county commissioners in 1816 ; was register, recorder, and clerk of the courts of Bedford county, 1818-35 ; was a Demo- cratic representative in the 24th congress, 1835- 37 ; and was defeated for the 25th congress by Charles Ogle, Whig. He was admitted to the bar in 1839, practised in Bedford and was treas- urer of Pennsylvania, 1842-48, and a representa- tive in the 30th and 31st congresses, 1847-51. He died in Pennsylvania.

MANN, Joel K., representative, was born in Pennsylvania in 1780 ; a descendant of John Mann who came from county Donegal, Ireland, to America in 1730, and settled in Warwick near Hartsville, Pa., where he was married in 1736 to Margaret Mitchel. Joel K. Mann resided at Jenk- intown, Pa., and was a representative from Mont- gomery county in the 23d and 23d congresses, as a Jackson Democrat, 1831-35. He died in Jenkintown, Pa., Sept. 5, 1857.

MANN, Mary Tyler (Peabody), author, was born in Cambridgeport, Mass., Nov. 16, 1806 ; daughter of Dr. Nathaniel Peabody. She was educated in the schools at or near Boston, Mass., was married, in May, 1843, to Horace Mann, went with him to Europe, and greatly assisted him in Ins studies of foreign educational reform and in his benevolent and educational work. She is the joint author with her sister, Elizabeth Pal- mer Peabody, of several books on the kindergarten system, chief among which is Culture in Infancy (1863). She also wrote Flower People (1838) ; Christianity in the Kitchen, a Physiological Cook Book (1857) ; Life of Horace Mann (1865) ; and Junita, a Romance of Real Life in Cuba, published posthumously. She died in Jamaica Plain, Mass., Feb. 11. 1887.

MANN, William Julius, theologian, was born in Stuttgart, Germany, May 29, 1819. He was graduated in theology at the University of Tu- bingen in 1841 and was ordained to the Lutheran ministry. He was assistant pastor in Wftrtem- berg, Germany, 1842-45. He came to the United States in 1845 ; made his home with the Rev. Dr. Philip Schafif at Mercersburg, Pa., and then re- moved to Philadelphia. He was made a member of the German Society of Philadelphia in 1849 ; was assistant to the Rev. Dr. Demme and the Rev. G. A. Reichert, in St. Michael's and Zion German Lutheran church, 1850-59. and was made a member of the ministerium of Pennsylvania in 1851. In 1859 the older ministers having resigned, with the Rev. G. A. Wenzel he was left in charge of the church, resigning his pastorate in 1884 to devote himself more completely to the seminary and to literary work, and was made pastor eme- ritus. He was professor of German in the Luth-

eran Theological seminary, Philadelphia, 1864-72; professor of Hebrew, symbolics and ethics, 1872- 92, and house father, 1873-92, succeeding the Rev. Frederick Heyer. He received the degrees D.D. from Pennsylvania college, 1857, and LL.D. from Muhlenberg college, 1888. He served as chair- man of the Pennsylvania ministerium in 1866, and as its president three terms. He was a mem- ber of the Pennsylvania Historical society ; a life member of the Pennsylvania Bible society and was prominently connected with several charitable or- ganizations. He visited Europe in 1867, 1875 and 1893. He was married to Margaret Rommel and their son, Edwin Rommel Mann, became an iron merchant in Philadelphia. Dr. Mann contributed to various encyclopaedias, newspapers and maga- zines, both in German and English ; edited and translated several works, and is the author of numerous volumes including : Plea for the Augs- burg Confession (1856) ; Lutheranism in America (1857) ; LutJier's Small Catechism Explained, with Dr. Gottlob F. Krotel (1863) ; TJie Lutheran Church and its Confessions (1880); Ei7i Aufgang in Abendland (1883) ; Das Buch der Bucher und seine Oeschichte (1884), and Life and Times of Henry Melchior Muhlenberg (1887). He died in Boston, Mass., June 20, 1892.

MANNING, Daniel, cabinet officer, was born in Albany, N.Y., Aug. 16, 1831 ; son of John and Eleanor (Oley) Manning. He attended the public school of Albany and in 1843 became office boy for the Albany Atlas, which paper was after- ward absorbed by The Argus. He held various positions of resiwnsibility on tliis paper and was made associate editor in 1865 and president of The Argus company in 1873. From that time until 1888 the editorial work was under his control and he shaped the policy of the paper. He was a delegate to the Democratic state con- vention of 1874, a member of the Democratic st.ate committee in 1876, its secretary, 1879-80, and chairman, 1881-83. He was a delegate to the Demo- cratic national conventions of 1876, 1880 and

1884. He was appointed secretary of the treas- ury in President Cleveland's cabinet in March,

1885, and resigned that office on account of ill health in April, 1887. He was interested in va- rious banking institutions in Albany and was president of the Western National bank, New