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| Notes for Rev. Stephen Noyes MANNING | ||||||||||||||
| - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - STEPHEN NOYES8 MANNING (Aaron,7 James,6 Wm.,5 Isaac,4 Saml.,3 Wm.,2 Wm.1) b. 1804, Oct. 24, at Sharon, Vt. His parents were poor, and he was put out to service at the age of 7. At 16 he was bound as an apprentice to a printer at Windsor. His school facilities were very limited, but, having united with the church in 1821, he was ambitious to secure proper education and enter the ministry. The printer agreed to release him from the last two years of his term for $100, and, at the age of 19, he went to Boston. In less than one year he had paid this sum and saved an additional $100. He pressed forward in his purpose, entered and graduated at Dartmouth College, and, later, at the Andover Theological Seminary, class of 1833, paying his way chiefly by printing, teaching and literary labors. In 1833 he was ordained as a Presbyterian minister at Methuen, Mass., by the Newburyport Presbytery. In the fall of 1833, he went to Ohio, and spent 15 years preaching in different places and 8 years in teaching. He was a Home Missionary at Watertown, O., for 2 years; taught in Kentucky from 1837 to 1843 (in '37-9 at Covington), and was a missionary near Cleveland, 1843-51. In 1856 he was called to take the agency of several county Bible Societies in Illinois, auxiliary to the American Bible Society. His duties were laborious, as he preached and lectured three or four times a week to raise money to send the Bible to the destitute, and every day went from house to house for the same purpose. He traveled in his buggy, or on horseback, about 5,000 miles a year, often exposed to storms and to great danger in fording swollen streams. His diligence and success led to his election as a Life Director of the American Bible Society. He continued 12 years in this agency, retiring in 1868 because of increasing years and physical infirmities. He had also preached at some time after 1851 in Michigan, probably in connection with his service in Illinois. He had always been interested in scientific matters, and, while teaching in Ohio, made mathematics and astronomy a specialty. About 1868 he invented and patented the "Spheric Delineator" for the use of colleges in teaching spherics; which was highly commended by professors. Later, he wrote considerably for the Scientific American and other periodicals on astronomical, mathematical, educational, biblical and geological subjects. In 1874 he published "The Fireside Astronomer," a pamphlet of 60 pages, printed at Kankakee, Ill. As early as 1871 he settled at Kankakee, where the closing years of his life were spent. He was honored and loved, and affectionately known as "Father Manning." He d. there 1882, Oct. 24. He m. at Hanover, N. H., 1833, Sep. 16, Harriet Williams Kellogg, b 1809, June 2, and d. 1838, Nov. 8, at Covington, Ky.; dau. of Dea. Jabez Kellogg. One child. Mr. Manning m. (2d) 1839, July 2, Lucy, dau. of Isaac and Lucy (Hinkley) Prescott, b. 1810, July 10, probably at Westford, Mass., and d. 1861, Apr. 1, at Kankakee; and he m. (3d) 1862, Mch. 25, at Pontiac, Abigail Richmond Chamberlain, b. 1804, Dec. 18, at Richmond, N. Y.; d. 1890, Aug. 23, at Mattoon, Ill. Children by second marriage: Harriet Lucy, Eunice, Asahel Nettleton, Edward Payson. [ref 13:448] - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - CENSUS: 1850 not found 6 Jun 1860 Kankakee, Kankakee IL census [ref 11:192-34] 1 282 260 MANNING, S. N. 55 G S P 2800,280 VT Lucy P. 50 MA Harriet L. 18 domestic OH Axehel N. 12 OH 29 Jun 1870 Kankakee, Kankakee IL census [ref 11:238-96(121b)] 14 738 742 MANNING, Stephen 65 preacher 7000,500 VT Abigail 65 keeping house MA CASTLEMAN, Eliza J. 11 IN 1880 Kankakee, Kankakee IL census [ref 21:219-265a] S.N. MANNING Self M Male W 75 VT Real Estate Dealer VT VT Abercal MANNING Wife M Female W 75 NY Housekeeper MA MA Eliza MANNING Dau S Female W 21 IN MA SWIT - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - | ||||||||||||||
| Notes for Harriet Williams KELLOGG | ||||||||||||||
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