Isaac Mann

From: "History of Delaware County" edited by Frank D. Haimbaugh, published
by Historical Publishing Company, Indianapolis, IN, 1924, pages 261-263.

CARSON M MANN former trustee of Niles township and a substantial farmer and landowner of that township, is a native son of Delaware county and has lived here all his life with the exception of some years spent in Adams
county, this state. Mr. MANN was born on the old MANN home place at Albany on April 20, 1860, and is a son of Isaac and Mary L. (KROHN) MANN, the latter of whom also was born at Albany, a. daughter of William FJ and Maria (PENDROY) KROHN, who had come over here from Ohio and had become pioneers of the Albany settlement.

The late Isaac MANN, who for many years was widely known hereabout as a lightning-rod agent and a well-to-do farmer and landowner, was born in the lower part of Fayette county , Ohio, not far from Leesburg,
June 12, 1834, and was but an infant when in the next year (1835) his parents, Warner and Nancy (PAVEY or Peavey)  MANN, came over here and settled on an unimproved tract in Niles township, this county.

Warner MANN was a son of Joseph and Elizabeth (BLADES) MANN, natives of Delaware, who had settled in the Leesburg neighborhood in Ohio and who in 1833 came over into Indiana and settled on an "eighty" in the Albany neighborhood in this county , and it was thus that two years later Warner MANN also came over here and became a settler in Delaware county. Warner MANN was reared a Quaker.

His wife (Nancy PAVEY) was a daughter of Isaac and Elizabeth PAVEY, the former of whom was a Methodist minister. Religious differences seemed to offer an insuperable barrier to the marriage of the young couple, but they found a way out when one night Nancy was helped out of an upstairs window of her home by Warner
and the twain soon became one. Upon coming over here Warner MANN bought a quarter section of land that had been entered by John BOOTS and settled down. He later took over a tract in what in time was included within the limits of the town of Albany and became one of the forceful figures in the development of that section of the county.

He died at the early age of forty-four in the year 1849, and his widow survived him for many years, she having been eighty-four years of age at the time of her death. They were the parents of three daughters and four sons and the Mann connection of this family in the present generation is a considerable one. Isaac Mann, one of these sons, grew up on the home farm and in time became a farmer and landowner in his own right. He married at the age of twenty-five (in 1859) and established his home at Albany, where he spent the remainder
of his life, looking after his farming interests and also for years engaged in the sale of lightning rods, thus gaining a wide acquaintance hereabout.

He died in 1911 and his widow survived him for five years, her death occurring in 1916. Of the children born to Isaac MANN and wife, seven grew to maturity, those besides the subject of this sketch being Mary, Anna, Amelda, William, Gustina and Thomas P. Reared on the home farm , at Albany, Carson M. MANN
supplemented the schooling received in the local schools by a course in the old normal school (now the university) at Valparaiso and for five years was engaged during the winters in teaching school, four years in this county and one year in Adams county.

Following his marriage in the spring of 1884, Mr . MANN settled on a farm of eighty acres he had bought in Adams county, and there made his home for eight years, at the end of which time he traded his farm there for a farm of 100 acres in Niles township, this county , the place on which he is now living and has since resided in this county.

. Since taking possession of this place, Mr . MANN has made numerous improvements on the place and has added to his holdings until now he has a well improved farm of 160 acres. Mr. MANN is a Republican and for six years (1909-15) served the public as trustee of Niles township. He is a member of the Bethel Methodist Episcopal church of Niles township and is an Odd Fellow.

It was on March 27, 1884, that Carson M. MANN was united in marriage to Anna E. READ, who died in 1921. Mrs. MANN was born in the neighboring county of Randolph, a daughter of Cyrus and Sarah (LAWRENCE) READ, who had come over into Indiana from Greene county, Ohio. To Carson M. and Anna E. (READ)
MANN were born four children, Mary, Read, Celia Opal (deceased) and Emma, the latter of whom was graduated from Indiana University and was for some time a teacher in the public schools of this county She also served for a year as the secretary of the Young Women's Christian Association at Steubenville, Ohio, and for a like period as secretary of the association at Johnstown, Pa. Mary MANN was graduated from Depew University and is now a teacher in a college for women in southern China.

Read MANN also was graduated from Depew University and is now giving his attention to the operations
of the home farm. He is a veteran of the World war, having served for about six months in Company B of the Plymouth Division of the 12th Brigade.

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