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 MANNING

MANNING

house of the South Carolina legislature for several terms; was defeated for governor of the state by David Johnson in 1846, and was elected in 1851, serving 1852-53. He establislied scholarships in South Carolina college, and personally aided several young men to obtain an education. He was a delegate to the Democratic national con- vention that met at Cincinnati, June 2, 1850, one of the committee to inform James Buclianan of his nomination to the Presidency in 1856, and a presidential elector in 1857. In the latter year he was appointed by President Buchanan U.S. minister to Russia but declined the office and rec- ommended Francis W. Pickens, who was ap- pointed. During the civil war he served on the staff of General Beauregard in the Confederate States army and was elected to the U.S. senate from South Carolina in 1865, but was not allowed to take his seat under the reconstruction act of •congress. He died in Camden, S.C., Oct. 29, 1889.

MANNING, Richard Irvine, governor of South Carolina, was born in Clarendon district, S.C., May 1, 1789; son of Lieut. Lawrence Manning, an officer in the Continental army, who served first in "Congress's Own," and afterward in at South Carolina college in 1811, and served in the war of 1812, as captain of a volunteer com- pany in the defence of Charleston, S.C. He was a representative in the state legislature, 1822-23; governor of South Carolina, 1824-26; was the defeated Union candidate for representative in the 20th congress, 1826; was a member of the state senate, 1827-34, and was a representative in the 23d congress, filling the unexpired term of James Blair, deceased, and was re-elected to the 24th congress, serving from Dec. 8, 1834, until his death. He died while under medical treatment in Philadelphia, Pa., May 1, 1836.
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MANNING, Robert, pomologist, was born in Salem, Mass., July 19, 1784; a descendant of Richard and Anstiss (Calley) Manning of Dart- moor, England. At the death of Richard, his widow Anstiss came to Massachusetts with her children in the ship Hannah and Elizabeth and settled in Salem in 1679. Robert Manning was educated in the scliools of Salem, and at an early age became interested in the nomenclature of fruit. He devoted himself to this single pur- pose for twenty-five years, and in 1823, estab- lished a pomological garden in Salem in which he propagated and accumulated the largest and best assortment of fruit trees controlled by a single individual. He corresponded with Euro- pean cultivators, more particularly with mem- bers of the London Horticultural society, for the purpose of obtaining scions from rare fruit trees. He added to liis collection every American variety worth cultivating, and in 1842 his collection

contained nearly 1000 varieties of pears and 500 varieties of apples, peaches, cherries and plums. He also succeeded in raising several superior varieties of cherries from seeds. His familiarity with fruit became so thorougli that he could iden- tify the rarest kinds at sight. His sister, Eliza- beth Clark Manning, married Capt. Nathaniel Hawthorne, father of Nathaniel Hawthorne the novelist, and wlien she was left a widow, Mr. Manning paid the expenses of his nephew at Bowdoin. He was one of the founders of the Massacliusetts Horticultural society, and contrib- uted frequently to the Horticultural Magazine. He died in Salem, Mass., Oct. 10. 1842.

MANNING, Thomas Courtland, jurist, was born in Edenton, N.C., Sept. 14, 1825; son of Capt. Joseph and Sarah Long (Heiigten) Manning, grandson of David and Edney (Moncreiff) Man- ning, and a descendant of John and Ann Man- ning. His first ancestor in America came from England and settled near Norfolk, Virginia, in the seventeenth century. He was a student at the University of North Carolina, 1842-43; was admitted to the bar in 1852, practised in Eden- ton, 1852-55, and then removed to Alexandria, La., where he soon acquired an extensive prac- tice, and also bought and cultivated a large plan- tation between Baton Rouge and New Orleans. He was a member of the state convention of 1861, and after the passage of the act of secession, Jan. 26, 1861, he joined a Louisiana regiment of state troops as lieutenant. He was transferred to the staff of Gov. Thomas O. Moore with the rank of lieutenant-colonel, and was made adju- tant-general of the state in 1863, with the rank of brigadier-general. He was associate justice of the supreme court of Louisiana, 1864-65, during the administration of Governor Hahn; refused the Democratic nomination for governor in 1872 and was presidential elector on the Democratic ticket that year and vice-president of the Democratic national convention of 1876. He was chief justice of the supreme court of Louisiana, 2877-80. He was a Hancock and English presidential elector at large from Louisiana in 1881, and in Novem- ber, 1880, was elected to the U.S. senate to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Henry M. Spofford, Aug. 20, 1880, but was not admitted. He served as chief justice of the supreme court of Louisiana, 1882-87," and was confirmed by the senate as U.S. minister to Mexico, Feb. 22, 1887. He received the honorary degree of LL.D. from the University of North Carolina in 1878. He was a trustee of the Peabody Education Fund, and while in New York city to attend a meeting of the board he died. Oct. 11, 1887.

MANNING, Van H., representative, was born in Edgecomb county, N.C., July 26, 1839; son of Reuben S. and Dorothy (Howell) Manning.