JOHN LELAND MANNING Son of Rev. Edmund Taylor & Abigail (Leland) Manning, b. 1847, Apr. 12, at South Bend, Ind. He was with the 16th Iowa Infantry, in the early part of the war of the Rebellion, and spent his fifteenth birthday encamped on the old battle-field of Shiloh. He enlisted May, 1864, in Co. F, 44th Iowa Infantry, and was honorably discharged as corporal of that company at expiration of his term of service. Subsequently, he attended the Iowa State University, and went to Chicago, Ill., in September, 1868. He was admitted to the bar as practicing attorney, 1869, Dec. 6; to the United States District and Circuit Courts in 1875, and is still in practice in that city. He has also been actively connected with other lines of business, and has long been manager of the Veterans' Police Patrol and Detective Agency. He was elected Commander of Ulysses S. Grant Post 28, G. A. R., for 1900, and, subsequently, President of the Commanders Association, composed of the forty commanders of the forty Posts of the G. A. R. in Chicago and Cook County, and representing 4,000 veterans of the war of 1861. He m. 1885, Sep. 24, Eva Emily Johnson.
The children of this marriage were:
Florence Iceland, b. 1887, May 4.
Eva Leland, b. 1892, Mch. 2; d. 1893, Oct. 19.
SOURCE: Abstracted from William H. Manning, The Genealogical And Biographical History Of The Manning Families Of New England And Descendants, p. 420-1, 561-2
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