Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1890-09-20
A REMARKABLE FAMILY.
Col. Manniug's Descendants Are the
Champion Elopcrs ON Record.

From the New York Sun
Miss Stella Manning, aged sixteen. eloped on
Sunday with her second cousin, Geo. Burns,
aged twenty. They were married the same
day in Warren. The girl is the youngest daugh.
ter Of Uri Manning, well-known lumber
dealer. The young man Is the son of Benz.
Burns. coal dealer, whose wife is cousin Of
the girls mother. There had been no objeo-
ton to the marriage Of the pair but they sp-
psrently preferred to follow long -esta blishsd
family precedent and elope. Geo. Manning
(afterward Col. Manning) was one of the first
settlers In this part of the state He came from
Steuben county, MY, in 1900, q young man
with bride, who was the daughter Of Gen.
VIII eeler Of Steuben. The Wheeiers wore an
aristocratic family and young Manning worked
for the general. Miss Wheeler fell in love with
her fathers young employe and eloped with
him. Manning grew rich in the lumber bust
ness and became O colonel in the war Of 1919
In 1919 his daughter Ella sioped with Silas Cur
Vim, who WAS sawyer in ono OF her fathers
mills and whose suit for his daughters hand
icaliy. Three years later another daughter
eioped and married o young doctor, whose
practice was barely sufficient to pay for his
own living. He died only year ago, however,
worth quarter OF million dollars. He was
DR.. Ambrose Sullivan, the eminent specialist
HIS money was left to two daughters, both of
whom had been compelled to elope or give up
the men they had chosen to we'd in opposition
to their fathers commando.
Col Manning's son Jason, at the age Of
twenty fell in love with the seventeen-year-oid
daughter OF backwoodsman named Grazely.
The colonel thought he would break mp that
attachment BY sending his son 70 Phiiadeiphia
70 school The son went but two days later IL
was learned that the backwoodsman's pretty
daughter had gone with him. Lator ON il was
learned that the runaways had stopped 1t Har-
rlsburg, where they were married Col. Man
ming had the youthful couple brought back,
and when he died Jason succeeded 70 the man.
agement OF his fathers large business enter
pfises. There were born to him and his back
woods wife . son and daughter. In 1858 the
son, Uri, was twenty-thrss years old, and
wanted to marry Stella McCrea, who was ave
years his junior. His father and Malcolm Nc
Crea, the girls father, were at odds over busi-
ness matters, and both he and NcCrea we're
Violently opposed to any union Of the families
Young Uri Manning having parental precedent,
g his father had before him, simply settled all
dispute in the matter By running away with
Miss McCres and marrying her. The next
year Urls sister, Jennie, being than twenty,
having also accepted a. her lover . youth not
to the liking Of either her father OF mother,
eloped with him and married hin. His name
was Geo. mccormick, and he u now . we'll
known and prosperous javysr OF nosthern
PennsyivauiA Az yet there have been no slop.
ments II this branch Of old Col Nanning's
family, bus 1t was Uri MauninG's danshier
Stella who eloped on Sunday with her sscoad
cousin, Geo. Bufna There are soyeral col
latera branches Of IL Naming family In
which elopeDeuts have also occurred from
time TO tune during the past few years.