Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1898-04-05

has been put up to nine. for HAD y
straight from, headquarters only week
ago that things were shaping that way.
George Manning started the record Of the
family In tho clipping line. He was On
early settler up in old Steuben and worked
for General Wheeler, one Of the big gums
Of tho pioneer days. Manning fell In love
with the general daughter, and she re-
eiprooated. When her aristooratic father
found tout, he discharged the presumptu-
Gus hired man. The hired man owned Q
GOOD horse, and 1t was not until a good
many hours after Manning had quit the
generals service that the. general found
chat Manning had ridden his horse rapidly
toward the west with the daughter of the
house Of Wheeler riding on the horse b.
hind him. General Wheeler chased the
clippers through the wilderness all the way
to Olean Point, learning on the way that
they had paused long enough at Genesoe
settlement to be married. At Clean Point
the general gave up the chase, for the elop-
Ing pair had gone on down the Alleghany
river in . canoe. a.
"Mannins settled with bis bride in The
wilderness Of Warren county, Pa, anu
took up large tracts Of fine land: 40 be-
came colonel in the war of 1919, and att
or the war grew immensely rich from his
pine lumber. He had ddehters.s He also
bad among bis many Workmen; = humble
sawyer named Curtin, who I'll 10 love
with the oldest daughter, Els She ~
turned the love Of tho young Woodsman.
Curtin had tho courage TO- l1k& Colonial
Manning for his daughter, and his request
was emphaticallysrskusSd. Than he eloped
with the girl. Thtswaa ID l8d0. :
"Three years lister another daughter
eloped with and married . yenng doctor.
whose practice was barely sufficient TO pay
for bis own living. When he died, how
ever, only four OF i've years ago, no wss
worth half q, million. He was Dr.. Am
brose W. Sullivan, famous in the Ala
gbany valley. One of his daughters, Alice
Manning Sullivan, accepted the suit OF .
youn4 man who was Objectionable to her
father. The latter forbade her to marry
him. She followed her stern parent'e
youthful example and promptly eloped
with her lover. Thinking to profit BY ex-
psrienee, when his second daughter became
engaged to o young man who was no$ her
fathers choice, Dr.. Sullivan consented to
tho match. This must have been z dtsap'
pointment to the daughter, for she broke
of the match herself, and year later
elopei with and married the brother OF
her former lover without giving her father
q chance to say whether Ne would accept
the young man 40 a SON. n-law or not.
,"Colonel Manning also had son! 6 His
name was Jason. At the ago Of 20 Jason
fell In love with Betty Grace, The pretty
daughter Of one Of bis fathers teamsters
The colonel was furious when he learned
OF this attachment and thought bio would
break it of BY sending tho boy away to
philadelphia to school. Tho boy went
without . protest, much to his fathers
SURPRISE. TIE father wasn't 20 much sur
pyised, though, when he learned two days
later that the pretty Betty had Joined Ja-
GOD on the way. Colonel Manning swore
be would disinherit 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
decided to the management of his large
business A son and daughter were born
to Jason Manning and his backwoods wife.
"In 1868 the son was % and wanted to
marry Stella McCrea, who was II. NAL
colin McCrea, the girls father. and Jason
Manning were bitter enemies, the result
of business difficulties, and both parents
opposed tho match. Jason . son. who was
named George for bis grandfather, Colonel
Manning, having the 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 bis Sis
ter Belle defed parental objection to her
choice Of husband. George Mccormick,
and eloped with him.. He has sinos made
something Of mark ~ lawyer and poll
ticisn in western Pennsylvania. George
Manning, who eloped with Stella AoCrsa,
and son OF Jason, who eloped With Betty
Grace, recently had bis own precedent fol-
lowed by bis 2O.year-old daughter, Stella
MoCrea Manning, who eloped With George
Burns, aged 81. The only objection to
tiis match that the girls parents had was
that young Burns was 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 tho Manning family no moro than ! do
the Fry Manning and Doc Manning fam
lilies, distant relstives OF old Colonel Man
ming, both Of which have an elopement to
their credit. New York Sun.