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History of Ross and Highland Counties, Ohio Page 108" COMPANY E. Mustered into service August 26, 1862. Mustered out of service June 26, 1865. COMMISSIONED OFFICERS. Captain Levi C. Guthrie, mustered out December 21, 1864 First Lieutenant John J. Manker, promoted captain Company B. Second Lieutenant John A. Brown, promoted first lieutenant; resigned May 24, 1864"
History of Ross and Highland Counties, Ohio Page 125" PRIVATES John J. Acher, George Armstrong, Byron Alexander, Joel H. Brown, Marion D. Britton, Isaac N. Barrow, George Boatright, Jesse J. Boat- right, George B. Broaksbank, Andrew Boatman, Eli Boatman, Samuel Corwin, Eli Charles, James Dushman, William H. Ellis, John B. Easter, John Q. Fenner, David Frazier, James W. Fenner, Joseph Gorman, Albert Holliday, Lewis D. Holliday, Madison Hart, Jasper Higgins, Samuel Herrin, William T. Herd, Jacob Jackson, Jacob M. Kirkhart, Henry C. Kerr, Perry King, Granville Kerns, Isaac Larkin, Eli Lay- man, John B. Leach, Robert S. Layman, John W. March, Charles Manker, Alexander Manker, Henry H. Mullenix, David Mullenix, James M. Myers, Frederic Mattill, Jacob Moyers, Charles Murray, Sylas Prator, Thomas E. Powell, Frederick Roush, Eli Roush, Allen A. Smith, Sylvester S. Stoddard, Edward Shipp, Henry Shrope, Jacob Shilley, Jacob Shultz, Thomas Smith, Caleb Suthard, William B. Sin- clair, Robert F. Smith, John W. Shade, John J. Smith, David M. Wood, William Young, Wilson Zink." "James P. Lee, died August 22, 1864."
History of Ross and Highland Counties, Ohio Page 127"The following were prsoners of war: Francis Brace and Sanford Manker."
History of Ross and Highland Counties, Ohio Page ???" JACOB DUCKWALL This gentleman, one of the oldest and most substantial farmers of Liberty township, is the fifth child, and fourth son, of Lewis and Susanna (Crone) Duckwall. He be- longs to a Virginia family, of German stock, his paternal grandfather coming to this country with his parents, a babe in arms, about the middle of the last century, after a very tempestuous voyage in a crowded sailing vessel, which consumed six weeks in the passage. Lewis Duck- wall became a successful farmer and sawyer in Berkeley county, Virginia. His brother, Henry, uncle of the sub- ject of this notice, was a soldier of the Revolution and died in the service of his country. Early in the present century he emigrated to Highland county, and settled on the old place, one mile north of Hillsborough, where he became possessed of a large estate, and died in the full- ness of years. His children, at the time of removal to Ohio, were Henry, Frederick, Polly (married William Hill), John, Jacob, Elizabeth (married Simon Clouser), Samuel, Lewis, and Daniel. the first named was already married and settled for himself, but came out and re- joined the family the next year. Frederick and John were out in the war of 1812, the latter being at Hull's surrender; but both got through their services safely. All, except Jacob and Lewis, are now dead. Jacob Duck- wall was born near Warm Springs, Berkeley county, Vir- ginia, February 25, 1795. He attended the subscription schools of his early day in Virginia and Hillsborough; engaged in farm labor upon the paternal estate until he was twenty-one; was married five weeks after (April 1, 1816) to Miss Mary, daughter of Reason Mobberley, an old settler of the same region, and at once came to the place, two miles west of Hillsborough, where he built a cabin (since replaced, successively, by two more impos- ing dwellings), and has ever since resided. He took a full share in the hard knocks and privations of pioneer live. He was thirty years old before he ever rode in a buggy or had a pair of boots, and frequently labored hard for twenty-five cents a day, sometimes taking "store pay" at that, and sometimes losing his pay altogether. The severe work of his long life, however, has given him an independent competence for his old age, after providing for his three oldest sons handsomely, by the distribution of over six hundred acres among them, reserving for himself about two hundred acres for the home place." "He was a Jacksonian in politics, from the battle of New Orleans until his hero, while president, vetoed the national bank bill; after that, a Whig until Republicanism came in, since which time he has generally accepted its measures and men. For half a century he has been a member of the Methodist Episcopal church, not ceasing from regular attendance upon its services until little more than a year ago, when he was compelled to do so, through the infirmities of increasing age. He is, however, in re- markably good health and preservation of his physical and mental faculties, for one of his years." "Mr. Duckwall lost his first wife July 13, 1828. By her he had children as follows: Carey, born December 5, 1817, now a farmer residing near; Eleanor, born May 29, 1819, married Abram Strain, and died January 5, 1848; Lewis, born October 7, 1820, also residing near; William, born August 26, 1824, formerly living near his father, but now of Fayette county, Ohio; and Susanna, born July 11, 1828, dying at the age of two years. De- cember 18, 1828, Mr. Duckwall was married to Miss Delilah Manker, by whom he had no children. He lived with her thirty years, and after her death was again mar- ried, October 15, 1863, to Mrs. Sarah E. Aiken, by whom he has one child, Jacob, now a lad in the ninth year of his age."
History of Ross and Highland Counties, Ohio Page 357"Jacob Duckwall was born on the twenty-fifth of Feb- ruary, 1795, at Warm Springs, Berkeley county, Virginia. He came to Liberty township with his parents, Lewis D. and Susanna Duckwall, in 1810. Mr. Duckwall and John Fenner bought together in the Temple Elliott survey, eleven hundred acres of land, at two dollars and twenty-five cents per acre, which is now worth nearly one hundred dollars per acre. L. D. Duckwall had seven sons and three daughters, all of whom came with him to Highland county, and all of whom are still living. Jacob Duckwall has been thrice married, the first time to Margaret Manley in 1816; the second time to Delilah Manker about 1830, and the third time to Sarah E. Akens in 1862. He has had five children--four sons and one daughter. The daughter has been dead many years, but the sons are all living, the youngest, Jacob, jr., being now (1880) but eight years old."
History of Ross and Highland Counties, Ohio Page 364"About 1820 Nathan Baker and Llewellyn Griffith, from New Jersey, came to Hillsborough, and opened up an extensive business in blacksmithing and WAGON-MAKING and were useful and enterprising citizens. Manker and Fidler succeeded them in business."
History of Ross and Highland Counties, Ohio Page 379"...Contracts were entered into... with Jenkins Manker, for the plank flooring and sheeting;"
History of Ross and Highland Counties, Ohio Page 467"...The principal mills of the present day in Clay township, are situated on Flat run and owned by the Kibbler Brothers. On this spot, in 1838, Mr. James Baird built a saw-mill. In 1841 Mr. Joseph Shinn bought it, and attached buhrs for grinding corn. In the same year, or the following, it passed into the hands of William Manker and a Mr. Shover, who converted it into a regular grist-mill. Steam was the propelling power..."
History of Ross and Highland Counties, Ohio Page 471"One of the oldest men now living in Washington town- ship is Zimri Manker, a son of Jacob Manker, who came from Berkeley county, Virginia, in 1811. He first settled in Belmont county, where he remained some four years, when he removed to Hocking county, and lived for a short time on the road from Lancaster to Newark. In 1816 he removed to Highland county, and leased land belonging to Mrs. Pusey, on Rocky Fork, where he re- mained three years. He went from there to land now owned by Jacob Duckwall, and afterward bought a farm near Samantha, where he died. He had three sons and three daughters. Of the sons, Jacob owns the home farm. Jeremiah was buried January 1, 1880. Zimri learned the blacksmith trade in 1819, and worked at that business in Hillsborough forty-eight years. He then passed a year in Indiana, after which he returned and bought a small farm in the north part of the township, where he lives with his son-in-law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. John Bales."
History of Ross and Highland Counties, Ohio Page 472"Thomas Bales was in the war of 1812, and died in Fay- ette county, at the age of one hundred and four years. His son, Nathan, came to Highland county, and after a short residence, removed to Arkansas, where he died. His son, John, married a daughter of Zimri Manker, and lives in the north part of Washington township."
History of Livingston County, Illinois Page 264"...At the election of 1857, two more precints had been added--Nebraska and Days, the latter embracing what is now Broughton and Round Grove. At this election, about 1,000 votes were cast... For Clerk--S. S. Saul, 525; S. L. Manker, 427."
History of Livingston County, Illinois Page 307"In 1857, the county voted to adopt what is know as the Township Organi- zation Act; and accordingly, the first township election held in this township took place April 6, 1858..." "The result of the first election was the choosing of Wm. T. Russell as Super- visor; E. R. Maples, Clerk; S. L. Manker, Assessor;..."
Northwest Indiana Conference Minutes Page 1262" MANKER, ORVILLE, OT-Des moines, 1916; Tr.-NW Indiana, 1918; EFF- NW Indiana, 1918; 1917, Griffith, merrillville; 1918, New Carlisle; 1919. Army Service; 1921, Sy; 1229-24, Hamlet; 1925-26, Liberty Ave., Terre Haute; 1927- 30, Delphi, 1931-38, Indiana Harbor; 1939-40, Crown Point; 1941-44, Lebanon; 1945-46, Hyde Park, Hammond; 1947, Fowler; 1948-50, Winamac; 1951-52, Plainfield; 1952-55, Otterbein; 1956, Retired."