Silas B. McManus

McMANUS, Silas Bettes. b. Rootstown, Portage Co., Ohio, 17 September 1845; d. Marsh Brook, Indiana, 15 April 1917. The following details are mostly, but not entirely, owing to Stulken (1981), the help of which is gladly acknowledged.  He was the grandson of a man who fought in the Revolutionary War (1776-1783). In 1863, when he was 19, his family moved to a farm near Lima (later renamed Howe), north-east Indiana, where he lived for the rest of his life. He graduated from Fort Wayne College of Medicine (closed 1905), and completed one year of postgraduate study at the University of Michigan; but he seems never to have practised medicine. He was a State Senator for a short time, from 1893 to...