When William Cranston Manning was born on 2 December 1840, in Allen Township, Darke, Ohio, United States, his father, Joseph Wood Manning, was 29 and his mother, Susan Keeghler, was 20. He married Catharine Brown on 25 January 1865, in Jefferson, Iowa, United States. They were the parents of at least 9 sons and 3 daughters. He lived in Jefferson, Iowa, United States in 1895 and Des Moines Township, Jefferson, Iowa, United States for about 10 years. He died on 13 April 1913, in Iowa, United States, at the age of 72, and was buried in Batavia, Jefferson, Iowa, United States.
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U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
Historical Boundaries: 1846: Jefferson, Iowa Territory, United States 1846: Jefferson, Iowa, United States
Although divided as a state on the subject of slavery, Ohio participated in the Civil War on the Union's side, providing over 300,000 troops. Ohio provided the 3rd largest number of troops by any Union state.
Irish (Cork and Kerry): adopted as an English equivalent of Gaelic Ó Mainnín ‘descendant of Mainnín’, probably an assimilated form of Mainchín, a diminutive of manach ‘monk’. This is the name of a chieftain family in Connacht. It is sometimes pronounced Ó Maingín and Anglicized as Mangan .
English: from a Middle English survival of the Old English personal name Manning.
North German and Dutch: habitational name from a farm so named, once in possession of a certain Manno (see Mann 2) and his kin.
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