The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1891-03-04
FAMILY OF ELoPERs.
Btory OF Seven Runaway Matches from
the Grandfather's Down.


the Grandfathers Down.
Miss Stella Manning, aged sixteen,
eioped 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
gtrf is the youngest daughter OF Uri
Manning, q well-known lumber dealer.
The young man Is the, son Of Benjamin
Burns, coal merchant whose wife Is
cousin OF the girls mother There has
been no objection TO the marriage Of the
pair, but they apparently preferred to
follow long established family prece-
dent and eloped. oIr
George Manning (afterward Colonel
Manning) was one Of the first settlers
In this part Of the State. lie came from
Steuben County, N. Y, in 1890 q young
man with bride. who was the daughter
Of General Wheeler. OF Steuben. The
Hheelers we're an aristocratic family,
and young Manning worked for the
General. Miss Wheeler fell in love with
her fathers employe and eloped with
him. Manning grew rich in the lumber
business, and became q Colonel in the
war OF 1919. In 1910 his daughter Ella
Goped with Silas Curtin, who was a
sawyer in one OF her fathers mills, and
whose suit for his daughters hand Col.
Manning had frowned on most emphati-
cally.
Three years later another daughter
etoped and married young doctor whose
practice was barely sufficient to pay for
bis own living. He died only year ago,
however, worth quarter OF million
dollars. lie was Dr. Ambrose Sullivan,
the eminent specialist. His money was
left to two daughters both Of whom had
heen compelled to elope or give up the
men they had chosen to wed in opposi-
tton to their fathers command.
Colonel Manning's son Jason at the
age Of twenty fell in love with the sew
euteen-year-old daughter OF back
wpodsman named Grazely. The Colonel
thought ho would break up that attach
ment by sending his son to Philadelphia
t0school. The son went, but two days
tater 1t was learned that the backwoods-
mans pretty daughter had gone with
aim. Later on 1t 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
1868 the son, Uri, was twenty-three years
Old and wanted to marry Stella McCroa,
who was five years his junior His
father and Malcolm McCrea, the girls
father, we're at odds over business mat
ters, and both he and McCrea we're vio-
iently opposedto any union Of the fami-
Hes. Young Uri Manning, having pa
rental precedent, as his 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-
cepted as her lover a youth not in tho
liking OF either her father or her mother
eioped with him and married him. His
name was George Mccormick, and he Is
now well-known and prosperous law
yer OF Northern Pennsylvania. As yet
there have been no elopements in this
branch of old Colonel Manning's family,
but IL was Uri Manning's daughter
Stella who eloped recently with her SEQ
ond cousin, George Burns There are
several collateral branches OF the Man
ming family in which clopements have
also occurred from time to time during
the past few years.