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- [S2056] Early History of Coudersport: Early Families, (Name: PCHS; Date: July 1949;), THE MANN FAMILY, starting with John & Lydia Battin Mann.
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Title: Early history of Coudersport : pioneer families of Coudersport.
Contributors Potter County Historical Society (Pa.)
Resource Type text
Publisher Potter County Historical Society
Place of Publication Coudersport, Pa.
Date of Publication 1949
Language eng
Form electronic
Extent [32] p. : ports. ; 21 cm.
Notes Sources of information: family records, Bible records, court house records, newspaper files."" Title on cover: Early history of Coudersport, early families of Coudersport.Add'l physical form: Also available online as part of PA's Past: Digital Bookshelf at Penn State. Reproduction: Microfilm. University Park, Pa. : Pennsylvania State University, 1993. 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm. (Pennsylvania history on microfilm) Filmed with: Historical sketches of Potter County, Pennsylvania / by W.W. Thompson. Coudersport, Pa. : Potter Enterprise, [1925]. ""
Subject Coudersport (Pa.)--History ; Coudersport (Pa.)--Genealogy
Repository Pennsylvania State University Libraries
OCLC number 29439293
THE MANN FAMILY
The children of John Mann and Lydia (Battin) Mann were:
1. Levi, b Sept. 7, 1782. 2. John Jr., b Aug. 21, 1784. 3. Lydia ,b July 18, 1786.
4. Mary, b Mar. 20, 1788. 5. Abigail, b July 9, 1790. 6. Margaret, b Sept. 24, 1792.
7. Issahar, b Dec. 25, 1794.
2. John Mann Jr., was married to Mary Smith, daughter ofJames and Smith, April 13, 1808. Their children:
1. Joseph Mann, b Oct. 8, 1810, d Feb. 18, 1884. 2. Lewis Mann, b Oct. 1. 1813.
3. John S. Mann, b Feb. 29, 1816. 4 Parvin Mann, b May 11, 1817.
Mrs. Mary (Smith) Mann, wife of John Mann Jr., d May 29, 1817.
On Apr. 29, 1819, John Mann Jr., m Sarah Lord, daughter of John and Rebecca Lord of West Fallowfield county, Pa. The marriage ceremony was in accordance with the Quaker custom.
She d in Coudersport, Oct. 25, 1851, in her 59th year.
In 1824 John Mann Jr., removed to Susquehanna county and established a boarding school in which some of his sons later became teachers. The place was: known as "Mannington." In 1844 he accepted the position of teacher of mathematics in the Coudersport Academy of which the Rev. John B. Pradt was principal.
Mr. Mann was justice of the peace for several years and d in Coudersport, Oct. 25, 1855, in his 72nd year.
Joseph Mann m Harriett Porter of Choconut Square, Susquehanna county, in 1833. In 1838 he came to Ceres, Pa, where
he became surveyor for McKean and Potter counties. On Apr. 1, 1841, he m Eloisa Adaline Dutton. She died in Coudersport Mar. 11, 1881, age 64 yrs., 3 mos., and 10 days.
- In 1846 they removed to Coudersport and later that year to Millport where Mr. Mann took charge of the Newbold Lum-bering Co. Was elected Asso. Judge in 1851 and re-elected in 1856' They returned to Coudersport in 1866 and Mr. Mann engaged in mercantile business. June 25, 1868, he purchased from John B. Smith the square bounded by Allegheny Ave., Cartee, Oak, and Borie Streets on which Smith had erected a brick dwelling in 1863.
-Their daughter, Mary Eloise Mann, was b Jan. 15, 1844, and d Dec. .15, 1928.
On Oct. 10, 1867, she m Pierre Augustus Stebbins, son of Pierre Alonzo and Almira (Brundage) Stebbins, b Feb. 10, 1887, at Hammondsport, N. Y., d Sept. 15, 1909. Pierre A Stebbins was a direct descendant of Rowland and Sarah (Whitney) Stebbins, b in England, 1594, m 1618, d Dec. 14, 1674, at Northampton, Mass., the town which he and William Pyncheon founded.
Pierre Alonzo Stebbins was elected sheriff of Potter county on Oct. 11, 1853, and soon afterward removed from Ulysses to
Couderspoit. He served from Jan., 1854, to Jan. 1857. He entered the mercantile business in 1858, his first advertisement of goods appearing on Sept. 16 of 'that year. He was later associated in business with his son, Pierre Augustus, who, with his brother, Charles A. Stebbins, carried on the business many years in the "Corner Store," northwest corner of Main and Second Streets. Children of Pierre Augustus and Maiy Mann Stebbins:
1 Katherine Lucille Stebbins, b Aug. 2, 1816, d Aug. 14, 1897.
2. Eloise Mann Stebbins, b May 8, 1870, d Oct. 14, 1937;
m Sept.26, 1893, to John Walter Wells, son of Walter and Sarah (Lyman) Wells. Their children:
1. Lucille, (Mrs. Howard N. Schutt), Katherine (Mrs. H. V. Hollingsworth Pett), and Walter Pierre Wells.
2. Lewis Mann m Mary Ellen Russell. In 1844 he was elected state representative and again in 1858.
He was the first Republican postmaster in Coudersport, being appointed by President Lincoln in June, 1861. In August of that year he received an appointment, to a position in the U. S. Treasury which he held until his death.
3. John S. Mann was b at London Grove, Chester county, Pa., of Quaker parentage. In 1835 he came to McKean county
and engaged in teaching and surveying. He returped to Susouelianna county to study law with Judge Jessup of Montrose.
In the winter of 1840-41 he taught school in Olean and in March of that year came to Coudersport and studied law in the office of Crosby Ellis. He was admitted to practice law in 1842.
On June 28, 1842. he m at Ceres, Pa., Miss Mary Williams King, b Jan. 15, 1820, d Jan. 16, 1899, daughter of John and. Hannah (Clendenon) King.
John King was b at Bridgeport, Dover, Eng., Aug. 9, 1784, and d at Ceres. He was the eldest, son of Francis King of Somersetshire, England, who d in Ceres, Pa.. Sept. 9, 1814. and Catherine Kenway of Dorsetshire, England, who d
Nov. 1801, in Ceres, Pa. They had nine children, the four eldest born in England.
In 1795 the family came to Philadelphia and shortly afterward settled at Asylum, Bradford county, Pa. In 1796 Francis King, who was a surveyor, was engaged by John Keating to explore and make reports of some lands in northern Pennsylvania
in a contemplated purchase by the Ceres Land Company. Influenced by the favorable report, the land was purchased Dec.
21, 1796. Francis King was engaged by John Keating to become a resident agent for these lands and in the spring of 1798 then brought his family to what is now the village of Ceres, Pa., the first family to settle at that place.
The parents of Hannah King were Robert Clendenon of Christian Hundred, b Apr. 28, 1779, and Elizabeth Battin of East Marlborough. Both were of the Quaker faith. Their children:
1. Phebe Clendenon.
2. Sarah Clendenon, b Nov. 27, 1785, d Aug. 7, 1879.
3. Hannah Clendenon, b Mar. 3, 1789, d Nov., 1861, m John King.
4. Rachel, b in Delaware, 1794, d 1856, never married.
5. Abigail Clendenon, b Jan. 7, 1795, d Oct. 18, 1844, m Asahel Wright.
6. Lydia Clendenon, b Feb. 20, 1798, d Feb. 3, 1878, m Henry Chevalier in 1835.
He was b in Switzerland, Sept. 11, 1801, d June 15, 1892.
7. Isaac Clendenon.
In the early spring of 1812 Robert, Clendenon, wife and two daughters, Hannah and Lydia, came from their home near Phil-adelphia to take' charge of a Friend Mission on the Allegheny River in western N. Y. John King and Hannah Clendenon were married in East Marlborough township, Chester county, Pa., on Apr. 4. 1817, according to the Quaker marriage custom. John S. Mann brought his bride to Coudersport where they established their home. Mr. Mann conducted a general store and in 1850 became editor of the Potter County Journal. He was state representative during 66-68-71 and was influential in the passage of the Potter County Prohibitory Liquor Act of Apr., 1866, which was in force until repealed in Apr., 1899.
Mr. Mann was a strong Abolitionist and frequently provided shelter and escort for fugitive slaves. He built a very handsome residence on the northwest corner of Main and Third Streets which the family first occupied in July, 1857. Children:
1. Arthur Birney Mann, b Dec. 1, 1843, d Apr. 22, 1936.
2. Cora Eloisa Mann, b Feb. 24, 1846, d Nov. 8, 1899.
Arthur Mann was Second Lieut. in the Civil War and for several years was pension agent in Potter county. He also engaged in law practice and insurance business. On Jan. 20, 1866, he. m Marbrie Jane Hopkins, b Apr. 29, 1843, at Tyrone, N. Y., d Aug. 20, 1905, daughter of Edward Howell and Teresa (Foster) Hopkins, who at one time kept the hotel at Wharton, Pa. Their only child was Nora Mann, b Feb. 9, 1868, d June 27, 1940; m Sept. 12, 1888, to Samuel Hartwell, b Jan. 23, 1868, at Sherburne Four Corners, N. Y., d in Coudersport, June 14, 1934, eldest son of Edward and Matilda (Bentley) Hartwell. Their children:
1. Arthur Lynn Hartwell, b Dec. 10, 1895, d Feb. 8, 1941; m Feb. 1, 1917, Vera Rees of Austin, Pa., b Jan. 15, 1897, daugh-
ter of Oscar and Melissa (Hackett) Rees. Their three children:
1. Ferda Lynn. 2. Glendolyn. 3. Samuel Allen.
2. Helen Marbrie Hartwell, b Aug 30, 1907; m Sept; 19, 1932, Benn Floyd Goodrich, b at Roulette, Pa., Sept. 13, 1910. They have one daughter, Marbrie Ellen Goodrich, b Apr. 23, 1936.
2. Cora Eloisa Mann m Sept. 30, 1868, Melville Sirrilus Thompson,. b in Chenango county, N. Y., 1839. Was brother of
Z. J. Thompson. They adopted two of Mr. Thompson's nieces, Marcia who m William Stevens, and Marion, who m Louis
Stocum.
20190131HAv- https://digital.libraries.psu.edu/digital/collection/digitalbks4/id/1262/rec/2
Title: Early history of Coudersport : pioneer families of Coudersport.
Contributors Potter County Historical Society (Pa.)
Resource Type text
Publisher Potter County Historical Society
Place of Publication Coudersport, Pa.
Date of Publication 1949
Language eng
Form electronic
Extent [32] p. : ports. ; 21 cm.
Notes Sources of information: family records, Bible records, court house records, newspaper files."" Title on cover: Early history of Coudersport, early families of Coudersport.Add'l physical form: Also available online as part of PA's Past: Digital Bookshelf at Penn State. Reproduction: Microfilm. University Park, Pa. : Pennsylvania State University, 1993. 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm. (Pennsylvania history on microfilm) Filmed with: Historical sketches of Potter County, Pennsylvania / by W.W. Thompson. Coudersport, Pa. : Potter Enterprise, [1925]. ""
Subject Coudersport (Pa.)--History ; Coudersport (Pa.)--Genealogy
Repository Pennsylvania State University Libraries
OCLC number 29439293
THE MANN FAMILY
The children of John Mann and Lydia (Battin) Mann were:
1. Levi, b Sept. 7, 1782. 2. John Jr., b Aug. 21, 1784. 3. Lydia ,b July 18, 1786.
4. Mary, b Mar. 20, 1788. 5. Abigail, b July 9, 1790. 6. Margaret, b Sept. 24, 1792.
7. Issahar, b Dec. 25, 1794.
2. John Mann Jr., was married to Mary Smith, daughter ofJames and Smith, April 13, 1808. Their children:
1. Joseph Mann, b Oct. 8, 1810, d Feb. 18, 1884. 2. Lewis Mann, b Oct. 1. 1813.
3. John S. Mann, b Feb. 29, 1816. 4 Parvin Mann, b May 11, 1817.
Mrs. Mary (Smith) Mann, wife of John Mann Jr., d May 29, 1817.
On Apr. 29, 1819, John Mann Jr., m Sarah Lord, daughter of John and Rebecca Lord of West Fallowfield county, Pa. The marriage ceremony was in accordance with the Quaker custom.
She d in Coudersport, Oct. 25, 1851, in her 59th year.
In 1824 John Mann Jr., removed to Susquehanna county and established a boarding school in which some of his sons later became teachers. The place was: known as "Mannington." In 1844 he accepted the position of teacher of mathematics in the Coudersport Academy of which the Rev. John B. Pradt was principal.
Mr. Mann was justice of the peace for several years and d in Coudersport, Oct. 25, 1855, in his 72nd year.
Joseph Mann m Harriett Porter of Choconut Square, Susquehanna county, in 1833. In 1838 he came to Ceres, Pa, where
he became surveyor for McKean and Potter counties. On Apr. 1, 1841, he m Eloisa Adaline Dutton. She died in Coudersport Mar. 11, 1881, age 64 yrs., 3 mos., and 10 days.
- In 1846 they removed to Coudersport and later that year to Millport where Mr. Mann took charge of the Newbold Lum-bering Co. Was elected Asso. Judge in 1851 and re-elected in 1856' They returned to Coudersport in 1866 and Mr. Mann engaged in mercantile business. June 25, 1868, he purchased from John B. Smith the square bounded by Allegheny Ave., Cartee, Oak, and Borie Streets on which Smith had erected a brick dwelling in 1863.
-Their daughter, Mary Eloise Mann, was b Jan. 15, 1844, and d Dec. .15, 1928.
On Oct. 10, 1867, she m Pierre Augustus Stebbins, son of Pierre Alonzo and Almira (Brundage) Stebbins, b Feb. 10, 1887, at Hammondsport, N. Y., d Sept. 15, 1909. Pierre A Stebbins was a direct descendant of Rowland and Sarah (Whitney) Stebbins, b in England, 1594, m 1618, d Dec. 14, 1674, at Northampton, Mass., the town which he and William Pyncheon founded.
Pierre Alonzo Stebbins was elected sheriff of Potter county on Oct. 11, 1853, and soon afterward removed from Ulysses to
Couderspoit. He served from Jan., 1854, to Jan. 1857. He entered the mercantile business in 1858, his first advertisement of goods appearing on Sept. 16 of 'that year. He was later associated in business with his son, Pierre Augustus, who, with his brother, Charles A. Stebbins, carried on the business many years in the "Corner Store," northwest corner of Main and Second Streets. Children of Pierre Augustus and Maiy Mann Stebbins:
1 Katherine Lucille Stebbins, b Aug. 2, 1816, d Aug. 14, 1897.
2. Eloise Mann Stebbins, b May 8, 1870, d Oct. 14, 1937;
m Sept.26, 1893, to John Walter Wells, son of Walter and Sarah (Lyman) Wells. Their children:
1. Lucille, (Mrs. Howard N. Schutt), Katherine (Mrs. H. V. Hollingsworth Pett), and Walter Pierre Wells.
2. Lewis Mann m Mary Ellen Russell. In 1844 he was elected state representative and again in 1858.
He was the first Republican postmaster in Coudersport, being appointed by President Lincoln in June, 1861. In August of that year he received an appointment, to a position in the U. S. Treasury which he held until his death.
3. John S. Mann was b at London Grove, Chester county, Pa., of Quaker parentage. In 1835 he came to McKean county
and engaged in teaching and surveying. He returped to Susouelianna county to study law with Judge Jessup of Montrose.
In the winter of 1840-41 he taught school in Olean and in March of that year came to Coudersport and studied law in the office of Crosby Ellis. He was admitted to practice law in 1842.
On June 28, 1842. he m at Ceres, Pa., Miss Mary Williams King, b Jan. 15, 1820, d Jan. 16, 1899, daughter of John and. Hannah (Clendenon) King.
John King was b at Bridgeport, Dover, Eng., Aug. 9, 1784, and d at Ceres. He was the eldest, son of Francis King of Somersetshire, England, who d in Ceres, Pa.. Sept. 9, 1814. and Catherine Kenway of Dorsetshire, England, who d
Nov. 1801, in Ceres, Pa. They had nine children, the four eldest born in England.
In 1795 the family came to Philadelphia and shortly afterward settled at Asylum, Bradford county, Pa. In 1796 Francis King, who was a surveyor, was engaged by John Keating to explore and make reports of some lands in northern Pennsylvania
in a contemplated purchase by the Ceres Land Company. Influenced by the favorable report, the land was purchased Dec.
21, 1796. Francis King was engaged by John Keating to become a resident agent for these lands and in the spring of 1798 then brought his family to what is now the village of Ceres, Pa., the first family to settle at that place.
The parents of Hannah King were Robert Clendenon of Christian Hundred, b Apr. 28, 1779, and Elizabeth Battin of East Marlborough. Both were of the Quaker faith. Their children:
1. Phebe Clendenon.
2. Sarah Clendenon, b Nov. 27, 1785, d Aug. 7, 1879.
3. Hannah Clendenon, b Mar. 3, 1789, d Nov., 1861, m John King.
4. Rachel, b in Delaware, 1794, d 1856, never married.
5. Abigail Clendenon, b Jan. 7, 1795, d Oct. 18, 1844, m Asahel Wright.
6. Lydia Clendenon, b Feb. 20, 1798, d Feb. 3, 1878, m Henry Chevalier in 1835.
He was b in Switzerland, Sept. 11, 1801, d June 15, 1892.
7. Isaac Clendenon.
In the early spring of 1812 Robert, Clendenon, wife and two daughters, Hannah and Lydia, came from their home near Phil-adelphia to take' charge of a Friend Mission on the Allegheny River in western N. Y. John King and Hannah Clendenon were married in East Marlborough township, Chester county, Pa., on Apr. 4. 1817, according to the Quaker marriage custom. John S. Mann brought his bride to Coudersport where they established their home. Mr. Mann conducted a general store and in 1850 became editor of the Potter County Journal. He was state representative during 66-68-71 and was influential in the passage of the Potter County Prohibitory Liquor Act of Apr., 1866, which was in force until repealed in Apr., 1899.
Mr. Mann was a strong Abolitionist and frequently provided shelter and escort for fugitive slaves. He built a very handsome residence on the northwest corner of Main and Third Streets which the family first occupied in July, 1857. Children:
1. Arthur Birney Mann, b Dec. 1, 1843, d Apr. 22, 1936.
2. Cora Eloisa Mann, b Feb. 24, 1846, d Nov. 8, 1899.
Arthur Mann was Second Lieut. in the Civil War and for several years was pension agent in Potter county. He also engaged in law practice and insurance business. On Jan. 20, 1866, he. m Marbrie Jane Hopkins, b Apr. 29, 1843, at Tyrone, N. Y., d Aug. 20, 1905, daughter of Edward Howell and Teresa (Foster) Hopkins, who at one time kept the hotel at Wharton, Pa. Their only child was Nora Mann, b Feb. 9, 1868, d June 27, 1940; m Sept. 12, 1888, to Samuel Hartwell, b Jan. 23, 1868, at Sherburne Four Corners, N. Y., d in Coudersport, June 14, 1934, eldest son of Edward and Matilda (Bentley) Hartwell. Their children:
1. Arthur Lynn Hartwell, b Dec. 10, 1895, d Feb. 8, 1941; m Feb. 1, 1917, Vera Rees of Austin, Pa., b Jan. 15, 1897, daugh-
ter of Oscar and Melissa (Hackett) Rees. Their three children:
1. Ferda Lynn. 2. Glendolyn. 3. Samuel Allen.
2. Helen Marbrie Hartwell, b Aug 30, 1907; m Sept; 19, 1932, Benn Floyd Goodrich, b at Roulette, Pa., Sept. 13, 1910. They have one daughter, Marbrie Ellen Goodrich, b Apr. 23, 1936.
2. Cora Eloisa Mann m Sept. 30, 1868, Melville Sirrilus Thompson,. b in Chenango county, N. Y., 1839. Was brother of
Z. J. Thompson. They adopted two of Mr. Thompson's nieces, Marcia who m William Stevens, and Marion, who m Louis
Stocum.
- [S1457] Public Member Trees 2017, marriage of John Mann and Mary Smith.
Record for John Mann jr and Mary Smith
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U.S., Quaker Meeting Records, 1681-1935
pages: 228/229
Apr/May 1808
Name John Mann
Birth Date 21 Aug 1784
Birth Date on Image 21 Eighth 1784
Chester, PA
Father John Mann
Mother Lydia Mann
Monthly Meeting London Grove Monthly Meeting
Historical Meeting Data London Grove Monthly Meeting
Yearly Meeting Philadelphia Yearly Meeting
Meeting State Pennsylvania
Meeting County Chester
oversight: Elizabeth Chambers
Sarah Chandler
228 At Londongrove Monthly Meeting of Woman friends 4thmo b1808-...
3rd- Enquirers finding nothgt to obstruct Mary Smith proceeding in marriage with John Mann they are left at liberty to accomplish it orderly, the meeting appoints Elizabeth Chambers and Sarah Chandler to have oversight thereof and report of their care to next meeting.
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229 At Londongrove Monthly Meeting of Women friends 5th mo 4th 1808...
1st - The friends oppointed to the oversight of the Marriage of John Mann and Mary Smith Report it was orderly accomplished.
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Smith, Mary m JMann Quaker mtg LondonGrove 1792
20171026 RVA-
U.S., Quaker Meeting Records, 1681-1935
pages: 228/229
Apr/May 1808
Name John Mann
Birth Date 21 Aug 1784
Birth Date on Image 21 Eighth 1784
Chester, PA
Father John Mann
Mother Lydia Mann
Monthly Meeting London Grove Monthly Meeting
Historical Meeting Data London Grove Monthly Meeting
Yearly Meeting Philadelphia Yearly… |
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