Putnam patriot., 1925-05-01
FUNERAL SERVICES
 FOR J.HARRY MANN
Veteran Insurance Agent and Widely Known Citizen Bur
 jed Wednesday Afternoon
Death From Pneumonia Follows Three
 Days Illness

lis veteran insurance agent and one of Putnam's oldest and most widely known citizens, who died Monday af ternoon at three o'clock. after a three days illness with pneumonia, were held from the house on Grove street at 2.30 o'clock, Wednesday, afternoon, Rev. F. B. Richards of the Congrega- tional church, officiating. Two solos were sung by Wallace Smith, Lead. Kindly Light" and Face to Face. |" Burial was in the Grove Street ceme- tery. The bearers were Silas Nj. Wheelock, John O. Fox. Lucius P. Mer- riam. B. D. Bugbee, A. D. Mcintyre, and Louis E. Law.
 Although in poor health for some years. Mir Mann had been able to at tend to his business up to last Thurs day. He was stricken with a cold and pneumonia developed In his weak ened condition, due to several previous attacks of illness and advanced years, his powers of resistance were impaired and the end came three days later.
 Widely Known
 Mr. Mann was widely known. En- tering the insurance field in Putnam in 1881 as a special agent, he travelled about great deal, and much of his business was done with railroad men. He was known in the early days from Boston to Hartford by nearly every employe of the road. His genial na- ture and inimitable way of telling a story made him many friends.
 Although born in the far south. he was a Republican until the advent of W. J. Bryan with his Cross of Gold platform. Mir. Mann believed in the doctrine of free silver as advanced by Mir. Bryan, and became a Democrat. He was not what one would call an ac- tive politician, but was one of the leaders of his party in Putnam. and honored by the party by being called to public office. He was for two terms an alderman in the common council, had served both as town and city au- ditor, and was for year judge of the Putnam city court. When the legis- lature deadlocked over the Putnam city court appointment, Governor Sim con E. Baldwin. January 2, 1914, ap- pointed Mir. Mann as judge, and he filled the office credibly. although not a member of the legal profession.
 When Mir Mann's illness took on alarming symptoms his two daughters and his son were summoned. Miss Edna Mann, younger daughter. who has been living at home. was visiting in New York. She arrived in Putnam Sunday afternoon. The older daugh- ter. Mrs. Howard Knight of Bridge port. and the son. Jerome Mann of New York, were unable to reach Put nam before their father passed away. Beside the three children, Mir. Mann Is survived by his wife.
 Under Bombardment
 John Harry Mann was born in New Orleans. March :. 1851, son of John Mann. a resident of New Orleans, and Gordelia Fairehild of Kentucky. He attended the public schools of New Orleans and was there during greater part of the Civil War. The city was bombarded by gaerillas. His father held a commission in the secret service under General Butler and was later killed by a guerilla band
 It was then that the family left the city an,' went Co Dayton. MT. Mann a lad welve, eseorting his mother and sis to the Ohio city. Alter finishing his education he was for a short time a clerk in a hotel but de cided to go to New York. There he found employment in a ieweiry house and became an expert stone set ter.
 Came to Putnam In 'si
 March 20. 1878. Mir, Mann married Miss Harriet Williams and six child ren were born to them, three dying in childhood. Three years after his marriage he came to Putnam and has resided here ever since except for a short period when he removed back to New York.
 In Putnam he began selling in surance and was most successful. He often displayed with a justitiabls pride several pieces of jewelry which were awarded to him in saiesmanshir contests for writing the lar sesi amount of insurance among agents including those in much larger field' than his own.
 Mir. Mann was a charter membei of Putnam Lodge of Elks and wa affiliated with Masonic bodies.