The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1898-05-09
AN ELOPING FAMILY.
cot. MANNING ESTABLISHED A PRGc-
EpGNY WHICH WAS FOLLOWED.


Fourth Generation believed His III.
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at read IN The Sun NOT hong ego, " said
| Q eteuben county man. IAN Item from {
western paper mentioning with some show
Of boastfulness family N ths town where
the papor Is published that has . record Of
slx sicpsnsnts 10 its credit thus far. with
I'VE daughters iefs Who may incrsase the
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nAy - inst tbts family, which began
sioVtnG In 0tsubsn county good many
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ether counties sad states ever sinos. Ass
been longer In the nee than The vsstsrn
doping fnmiiy brought Inward with %
much bvaa, bus Net dossn't rule 10 out
This family u tbs Manning family.
fhsrs have BEEN eight Opponents In is,
and wouldnt b surprised II should
hear when get hack homo that The record
has been put mp 10 nine for I had 10
straight from headquarters only . week
ago that things were shaping that way.
George Manning started the record Of the
family In the clipping line. He was an
for General Wheeler, one of the big guns
of the pioneer days. Manning fell In love
with the generals daughter, and she re-
oiprooated. When her aristocratic father
found 1t out he discharged the presumptu-
Gus hired ran. The hired man owned a
good horse, and Il was not until good
many hours after Manning had quit the
generals service that the general found
that Manning had ridden his horse rapidly
toward tho west with the daughter of the
house of Wheele,1 >iding on the horse be-
hind him. GcVsl Wheeler chased the
clippers through the wilderness all the way
to Olean Point, learning on the way that
they had paused long enough at Genesee
settlement to be married. AT Clean Point
the general gave up the chase, for the elop-
ing pair had gone on down the Allegheny
river In canoe.
Manning settled with his bride In the
wilderness OF Warren county, Pa, and
took up large tracts Of fine land. He be-
came colonel In the war Of 1919, and aft
or the war grew immensely rich from his
pine lumber. He had daughters. He also
had among his many workmen humble
sawyer named Curtin, who fell In love
with the oldest daughter, Ella. She re-
turned the love Of the young woodsman.
Curtin had the courage to ask Colonel
Manning for his daughter, and his request
was emphatically refused. Then he eloped
with the girl This was In 1919.
"Three years later another daughter
eloped with and married a young doctor.
whose practice was barely sufficient to pay
for his own living. When he died, how
ever, only four or five years ago, he was
worth half a million. He was DR.. Am
brose w. Sullivan, famous In the Ale
ghany valley. One of his daughters, Alice
Manning Sullivan, accepted the suit of a
young man who was Objectionable to her
father. The latter forbade her to marry
him. She followed her stern parents
youthful example and promptly eloped
with her lover. Thinking to profit by ex-
perience, when his second daughter became
engaged to young man who was not her
fathers choice, DIR. Sullivan consented to
the match. This must have been disap-
pointmeDt TO the daughter for she broke
off the match herself, and year later
eloped with and married the brother Of
her former lover without giving her father
a chance to say whether he would accept
the young man as a son-in- law or not
Colonel Manning also had a son. His
name was Jason. At the age of 20 Jason
fell In love with Betty Grace, the pretty
daughter of one of his fathers teamsters.
The colonel was furious when he learned
of this attachment and thought he would
break IL off by sending the boy away to
Philadelphia to school. The boy went
without a protest much TO his fathers
surprise. The father wasn't so much sur
prised, though, when be learned two days
later that the prstty Betty had joined ia
son on the way. Colonel Manning swore
he would disiDhert the boy; but, learning
that the couple, just as he had done years
and years before, had been married on the
way, he sent after them, overhauled them
at Harrisburg and brought them back.
When Colonel Manning died, Jason sue
ceeded to the management of his large
business A son and a daughter were born
to Jason Manning and his backwoods wife
''In 1868 the son was 23 and wanted TO
marry Stella McCrea, who was IL. NAL
colin McCrea, the girls father, and Jason
Manning were bitter enemies, the result
of business difficulties, and both parents
opposed the match. Jason son, who was
named George for his grandfather, Colonel
Manning, having tho precedent of both
parent and grandparent before him. sim
ply settled all dispute In the matter by
running away with Stella MoCrea and
marrying her. The very next year his Sis
ter Belle defled parental objection to her
choice of a husband, George Mccormick,
and eloped with him. He has since made
something of n mark as lawyer and poll
tician In western Pennsylvania. George
Manning, who eloped with Stella McCrea,
and son Of Jason, who eloped with Betty
Grace. recently had his own precedent fol-
lowed by his 20-year-old daughter, Stella
McCrea Manning. who eloped with George
Burns, aged 81. The only objection to
this match that the girls parents had was
that young Burns was a cousin of her
mother. Burns sister, by the way, eloped
with Seth Small Of Pittsburg only year
ago, but don't count her in this record
Of the Manning family no more than do
the Fry Manning and Doc Manning fam
ilies distant relatives of old Colonel Man
ming, both Of which have an elopement to
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