Telegram-herald. ([Grand Rapids, Mich.) 18??-1892, 1890-11-08
FAMILY OF eLopERs.
story OF Seven Runaway Matches frsm
the Grzndfsther's Down

Story OF seven Hunsway Matches frsm
the Grznafsther's Down
Miss Stella Manning. aged sixteen,
eloped the other day with her second
cousin, George Burns, aged twenty,
writes Carlton pa correspondent OF
the st. Louis Republic. They were
married the same day in Warren. The
girl is the youngest daughter Of Uri
Manning, a well-known lumber dealeE
The young man is the son Of Benjamin
Burns, coal merchant whose wife Is
cousin of the girls mother. There has
been no objection 10 the marriage Of the
pair. bat they apparently preferred 10
follow congratulated family prece-
dent and eloped.
George Manning (afterward Colonel
Msnning) was one Of the first settlers
in this part of the State. BE came from
Steuben County, N. Y, in 1870 young
man with bride, who was the daughter
OF General Wheeler, Of Steuben. The
Wheelers were an aristocrstic family,
and young Manning worked for the
General. Miss Wheeler fell in love with
her fathers epploye and eloped with
him. Manning grew rich in the lumber
business, and became q Colonel In the
war Of 1919. In 1919 his daughter Ella
eloped with Silas Curtin, who was
sawyer in one OF her fathers mills, and
whose snis for his daueh ter's hand Col.
Manning had frowncd on most enphati
cally.
Three years later another daughter
eloped and married a young doctor whose
practice was barely sufficient TO pay for
his own living. He died only a year ago,
however, worth quarter of million
dollars. He was DR.. Ambrose Sullivan,
the eminent specialist. Ills money was
left 10 two daughters. both OF whom had
been compelled to elope or give mp the
men they had chosen TO wed in opposi-
tion 10 their fathers command.
Colonel Manning's son Jason at the
age of twenty fell in love with the sew
enteen-year-old daughter OF a back
woodsman named Grszely. The Colonel
thought ne would break up that attach
ment by sending bis son 70 Pniladelphi a
to school. The son went, but two days
later it was learned that the backwoods-
mans pretty daughter had gone with
him. Later on it was learned that the
runaways had stopped at Harrisburg
where they were married.
Colonel Manning had the youthful
couple brought back, and when he died
Jason succeeded TO the management of
his fathers large business enterprises
There were born to him and his back
woods wife a son and daughter. In
1858 the son, Uri, was twenty-three years
old and wanted TO marry Stella McCrea,
who was five years mis- junior. His
father and Malcolm McCrea, the girls
father, were at odds over business mat
tiers, and both he and McCrea were VIC
lently opposed to any union of the fami-
lies. Young Uri Manning. having pa
rental precedent, as bis father had had
before him, simply settled all dispute
in the matter by running away with
Miss McCrea and marrying her.
The next year Urls sister Jennie,
being then twenty, and having also ac-
copied as her lover youth not in the
liking Of either her father or her mother
eloped with him and married him His
Hdho was tCVAbc 4"SNofAiAShs anu DC 4,
now weil-known and prosperous law
yer OF Northern Pennsylvania As yet
there have been no elopemeuts in this
branch Of old Colonel Manning's family
but IL was Uri Manniag's daughter
Stella who eloped recently with her sec
ond cousin. George Burns. There arS
several collateral branches Of the Man
ming family ia which clopenents have
also occurred from time 70 time during
the past few years.