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Mr. McManus one of the worthy citizens and prominent old settlers of the locality, and is intimately identified with the growth and progress of the agricultural and commercial interests of the region.<br> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Mr. McManus was born in county Fermanagh, Ireland, in 1841, to John and Elizabeth McManus, typical old countrymen, who came with their family to America about 1848. They crossed the sea in a sailboat, and were on the water for eleven long weeks and three days, embarking at Liverpool and landing at New Orleans, thence up the Mississippi river to Galena, Illinois.<br> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;They settled in LaFayette, Wisconsin, remaining in that state up to 1894 <em><span style="color: red">( I think mistake s/b 1870 ish)</span></em>.<br> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;In 1871 our subject went to Sioux City, Iowa, and after but a short time in that place, secured a team and drove through the country to Dixon county, Nebraska, and there filed on a homestead, built a shanty, and lived for many years.<br> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Mr. McManus came to Cedar County in 1894, and has developed a good farm, which he still occupies, and where he has passed through all the various phases of pioneer life. He has experienced the usual hardships that fell to the lot of every early settler, including suffering privation occasioned by loss of crops by storms, grasshopper raids, etc., but through it all has come out victorious, and has nothing but praise for the state of his adoption, believing, like every other loyal Nebraskan, that it is the golden state of the union, and well worth effort in the way of hard work and the discouragements attendant thereto in the realization of possessing a good home and competence for old age.<br> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Mr. McManus was united in marriage to Miss Ellen McCabe in 1863, the ceremony taking place at Benton, Wisconsin.<br> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Nine children have been born to them. They are named as follows: Mary Ellen, William Henry, deceased; William Emmet, Elizabeth Ann, George C., John Henry, Celia, Clara and Joseph Albert.</p> <p style="margin: 5pt 55.8pt 5pt 69.05pt">From the : <strong>Compendium</strong><strong><span style="font-size: 10pt"> </span>of</strong><strong><span style="font-size: 10pt"> </span>History Reminiscence and Biography</strong><strong><span style="font-size: 7.5pt"> </span>of </strong><strong><span style="font-size: 13.5pt">Nebraska</span></strong><span style="font-size: 13.5pt"> </span>1912 Alden Publishing Company, Chicago. Containing a history of the State of Nebraska, and over 1000 pages of biographical material.<strong>&nbsp;</strong><span style="font-size: 10pt">INDEX</span> to biographies is hot-linked.<strong> </strong>Thanks to P. Ebel, P. Shipley &amp; Lenise Cook. Note: This book originally done from material reproduced on a copy machine. All photos were redone when Pam Rietsch was able to secure the book for the use of NEGenWeb Project. <span style="color: black">Every name index completed! </span><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black">(T&amp;CM)</span></p> <p style="margin: 5pt 55.8pt 5pt 69.05pt">&nbsp;</p> <p>Source: http://www.rootsweb.com/~neresour/OLLibrary/Comp_NE/cmp0262.htm#JOHN%20McMANUS</p>

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