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 MANOGUE

MANSFIELD

His parents removed to Miasissippi in 1841 and he attended Horn Lake academy, and the Univer- sity of Nashville. He was married May 3, 1859, to Mary Z. daughter of W. W. Wallace, of Holly Springs, Miss., who with four sons and four daugh- ters survived him. He removed to Arkansas in 1860, and was admitted to the bar in 1861. He enlisted in the Confederate States army, and was appointed captain in and subsequently colonel of the 3d Arkansas infantry. He com- manded Gen. John G. Walker's brigade at Rich- mond in 1862, and when the brigade joined Gen- eral Lee's army at Frederick, Md., he undertook to destroy the aqueduct bridge across the Monoc- acy. Failing in that he co-operated with Jack- son and McLaws in the capture of Harper's Ferry and took possession of Loudoun Heights, and on Sept. 16, 1862, reported to General Lee at Sharps- burg and was assigned to the extreme right of Lee's line of battle on the 17th. The same day the division was ordered to reinforce Jackson when that officer ordered the division to the re- lief of Hood and while leading his brigade and driving Sedgwick's forces back Manning fell, severely wounded. He was present at the battle of the wilderness where he was captured, and he was held a prisoner of war by the U.S. govern- ment until August, 1865. He was a representative from the second district of Mississippi in the 45th, 4Gth and 47th congresses, 1877-83, and in 1883 took up the practice of law in Washington, D.C. He died at Broadville, Md. Nov. 3, 1892.

MANOGUE, -Patrick, R.C. bishop, was born in Desart, county Kilkenny, Ireland, March 15, 1831. He attended school at Callan ; immi- grated to the United States in 1856 and was graduated from the University of St. Mary of the Lake, Chicago, 111. He removed to California, where he was superintendent and part owner of a mine at Moores Flat, Nevada county. Deciding to enter the priesthood, he returned to Europe, and attended the seminary of St. Sulpice, Paris. He was ordained, Dec. 25, 1861, at the seminary, returned to California, and was pastor in charge of St. Mary's church, Virginia City, in 1862, with jurisdiction over the entire country afterward comprised in the State of Nevada ; was vicar-general of the diocese of Grass Valley for a number of years, and built for St. Mary's parish, Virginia City, one of the finest churches on the Pacific coast. He was appointed titular bishop of Cremos and coadjutor to Bishop O'Connell, Nov. 28, 1880, and was consecrated at San Francisco, Cal., Jan. 16, 1881, by Archbishop Alemany and Bishops Mora and O'Connell. He succeeded Bishop O'Connell to the diocese of Grass Valley, Feb. 29, 1884, his jurisdiction be- coming the diocese of Sacramento, May 28, 1886. He died at Sacramento, Cal., Feb. 27, 1895.

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MANSFIELD, Edward Deering, editor mi author, was born in New Haven, Conn., Aug. 17, 1801 ; son of Jared (q.v.) and Eliztibeth (Phipps) Mansfield, and grandson of David and Mary (English) Phipps. He was graduated at the U.S. Military academy and promoted 2d lieuten- ant in the corps of engineers, July 1, 1819. He declined the commission, was prepared for college by Mr. Hooker, of Farmington, Conn., and was graduated at the College of New Jersey, A.B. 1822, and A.M. 1825. studied law with Judge Gould in Litch- field, 1823-25, and practised in Connec- ticut until May, 1826, and in Cincinnati, Ohio. 1826 -36. He was married first in 1830, to Mary Peck of Litchfield, Conn., and secondly, April 24, 1839, to Margaret, daughter of Thomas and Eleanor Worthington, of Adena, Ohio. He was professor of constitutional law and history in Cincinnati college, 1836 ; and editor of the Cincinnati Chronicle, 1836-48 ; of the Chronicle and Atlas, 1849-52, and of the Railroad Record, 1852-72. He was also editor of the Cincinnati Gazette for some time and was a constant contributor to that journal, 1855-80, and during the civil war regularly contributed to the New York Times, signing his articles " A Veteran Observer." He was a commissioner of statistics for the state of Ohio, 1859-68, and an associate of the Society Frangaise de Statistique Universelle, 1846-80. He received the degree A.M. from the College of New Jersey in 1835, and that of LL.D. from Marietta college, Ohio, in 1853. He is the author of : A Discourse on the Utility of Mathematics (1834) ; A Treatise on Constitutional Law (1835) ; Political Grammar of the United States (1885) ; TJie Legal Rights, Duties and Liabilities of Mar- ried Women (1845) ; Tlie Life of Gen. Winfield Scott (1848); TJie HUtory of the Mexican War (1849); American Education (\^TA) ', The Memoirs of Daniel Drake (1855) ; A Popular Life of Gen. Ulysses 8. Grant (1868) ; Personal Memoirs, ex- tending to the year 1841 (1870), and joint author with Benjamin Drake of Cincinnati in 1826. He died at Morrow, Ohio. Oct. 27, 1880.

MANSFIELD, Jared, mathematician, was born in New Haven, Conn., May 2. 1759 ; son of Stephen and Hannah (Beach) Mansfield ; grandson of Jonathan and Sarah (Ailing) Mansfield, and a descendant of Richard Mansfield, of Devonshire,