"COUNTIES OF MORGAN, MONROE & BROWN, INDIANA. HISTORICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL."
CHARLES BLANCHARD, EDITOR. CHICAGO: F. A. BATTEY & CO. PUBLISHERS. 1884.
F. A. BATTEY. F. W. TEPPLE
BROWN TOWNSHIP AND MOORESVILLE
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ALLEN T. MANKER was born in Highland County, Ohio, April 15, 1827; is the
sixth son of nine children (eight sons and one daughter) of Jacob and Marion
(Jones) Manker, natives of Ohio. His mother died when he was five years of
age, and the succeeding eleven years of his life were spent at different
places in the neighborhood of his nativity. He acquired something of an
education by a few months' attendance at the winter schools in his
neighborhood, and in 1841, in the town of Hillsboro, Ohio, began the trade
of carpenter and served an apprenticeship of three years. He came into
Morgan County in 1845, and has since recognized Mooresville as his home. In
1854-55, he ran a grist mill in Montgomery County, and from 1874 to 1880 had
charge of the Magnolia Mills at Mooresville two different times, aggregating
something over three years. Going thence to Brooklyn, Ind., he closed his
mill experience by about one years's service. In 1856-57, he was engaged in
the livery business at Mooresville, and the rest of his life has been
devoted to the business of contractor and builder. He was married at
Darlington, Ind., April 16, 1857, to Nancy J. Gaskill and has had born to
him seven children--Frank E., Clinton W., Mary I., James M., John W.,
Charles and Livingston. In 1852, he "bull-whacked" across the plains from
Iowa to Portland, Oreg., and returned to New York via the Isthmus. The best
buildings in Mooresville are marks of his handiwork. He superintended the
erection of the new Methodist Episcopal Church, drew the plans of the
Masonic building, and erected the Odd Fellows Hall. He is a member of the
Methodist Episcopal Church, belongs to the Masons and Knights of Honor; is
a strict temperance man, and in politics as out-and-out Democrat.
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