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ORVIS MANN, farmer, P. O. Custard's, was born in Dutchess County, N. Y., July 28, 1807, and is a son of William
and Ruhamah (Barnum) Mann, who removed to Delaware in his infancy, and there he was reared. His maternal grandfather,
Isbon Barnum, who was a soldier in the Revolutionary war, died in his native State, Connecticut, aged about seventy.
Our subject was married in 1836, to Miss Mary, daughter of Edward Burhans, of Delaware County, N. Y., by whom he
had six children: Frances, Mrs. Newel Bly, Helen, Electa (now Mrs. William A. Cook), Mary L., Mrs. Jerome J. Hill,
Josephine, and an infant deceased. In 1838 Mr. Mann settled in Chautauqua County, N. Y., where he resided until
1853, when he removed to this township, locating on the farm on which he still resides, and a part of which he
cleared and improved. He has held several township offices. In politics he is a Democrat.
From:
History of Crewford County, Pennsylvania
Illustrated
Warner, Beers & Co.,
Chicago; 1895
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