John Milton Manville    

JOHN MILTON MANVILLE, farmer, P.O. Mosiertown, was born August 21, 1825, in Jefferson County, N.Y.; son of Henry and Matilda (Wait) Manville. He came to Cussewago Township, this county, with his mother in 1838, and here he learned the cabinet-maker’s trade and carried on a shop in Mosiertown for a period of seven years. He married, September 30, 1845, Miss Harriet E., daughter of Dan Stebbins, born August 17, 1825, this township. Their children are Mrs. Mary M. Davis, Jean M., and Mrs. Carrie A. Heard, besides three who died in childhood. Our subject purchased the old family homestead of Dan Stebbins in 1865, where they now reside. They have here a fine farm of fifty acres of well-improved land. Mr. and Mrs. Manville are consistent adherents of the Presbyterian, faith. He is a man of upright integrity and a useful and influential citizen in the community.

History of Crawford County, Pennsylvania: containing a history of the county, its townships, towns, villages, schools, churches, industries, etc., portraits of early settlers and prominent men, biographies, history of Pennsylvania, statistical and miscellaneous matter, Chicago: Warner, Beers & Co., 1885. View image of this page of the book on line at ancestry.com.  Free access  More Crawford County History Books  Search Hundreds of 1880s-1890s Pennsylvania County History Books for biographies and historical information on your ancestors.  View the book page images on line and print them out for your genealogy file!  Free Access to the old history books - plus birth & death records, census images and ALL other records at ancestry.com

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