Morning journal and courier., 1884-07-22
OBITUARY.
Rev. IoeI Mann.

At an early hour yesterday morning oc- cured the death of Rev. Joel Mann at the residence of Mrs. c. E. Gorham, Al Greene street, where the deceased had long made his home. He had been sick about week and passed away victim to the infrmities incl
 dent to old age rather than because of any
 special disease The funeral will be from the Davenport church at 11:30 tomorrow
 morning and the remains will be taken to
 Newport, R. l., for interment.
 MT. Mann's birthplace was Orford, N. H.,
 and the time of his birth, February 7, 1789,
 making him over ninety-fve years of age.
 His father was a farmer and he was the
 thirteenth child in family of fifteen chil-
 dren. He was educated at Dartmouth col
 lege in Hanover, N. H., graduating the vale
 dictorian of the class of 1910. Early deter
 mined to devote his life to the work of the
 ministry, the young valedictorian studied
 theology privately after graduation, that
 being before the time of theological semina-
 ries, but his brilliant qualities of mind se-
 cured for him place among the instructors
 of Dartmouth, place which he did not long
 retain owing to his desire to preach. The
 nTSU place O1 HIS SSGGl0Il01lO d 4u114SGOI Wdo
 over the Congregational church in Bristol, R.
 IL. There he labored many years. The
 quality of his preaching was such as
 to bring him much success in win
 ming souls to Christ, and to secure
 for himself personal fame. He was regarded
 as one of the leading preachers of his day.
 Salem, Mass, was the next place where he labored, and afterward he was settled in sev- eral places in this State, notably Greenwich.
 lished over one of the largest Presbyterian churches in the metropolis. That ministry he regarded as the great mistake of his life In 1882, the period of the great revivals of religion following the time of the spread of atheism, MT. Mann was in great demand as revivalist and in this work met with won derful success, his power being remarkable. About twenty years ago he gave up the active work of his profession and came to New Haven where he had many friends. During the succeeding years of his life he has written some sermons and was an active and constant attendant upon the meetings held by little circle of ministers in this city who have ceased active labors. Among those who were prominent at those meetings were Prof. Day, Prof Olmstead Rev MT. Williams and Rev MT. Whittlesey. MT. Mann preached at the St. John street M. E. church as late as six years ago and gave his hearers a rousing sermon. During the first part of his stay in this city he attended the Third church, but as the weakness of age grew upon him he became unable to walk so far from his resi- dence on Greene street, and then attended the Davenport church, in the welfare of which he took a very deep interest His family is an old and hon ored English family, and the subject of this sketch was at work during the later years of
 his life upon 8 genealogy of the family which he traced back hundreds of years. He has the coat of arms of the family. Mir. Mann also kept from early life copious diary. He boarded for many years with Rev. MT. Hoad- ly, who owned the property at Al Greene street, and who was until his death a close friend of MT. Mann. The deceased was a strong abolitionist and was friendly with Wendell Phillips, although he took no part in party discussions, confning his work to his pulpit.
 Mir Mann married a daughter of Gov ernor Vernon, of Newport, R. l., and thus united one of the oldest and best fami- lies of Rhode Island with his own. One son, Dr. Frederick P. Mann, of San Francisco, is living All of MT. Mann's brothers and sis
 ters are now dead, but he has many great grandchildren and grand .nephews and nieces living.
 Rev. MT Manns theology was of the old school. He did not take kindly to modern ! ideas. One of his leading characteristics was \ a firmness and determination that carried him \ through many crises of life and enabled hin ' to pull through many severe sicknesses and \ attain his remarkable old age.