Thomas J Manning (1856)

Born 1 Mar 1856 in Lewiston, Androscoggin County, Maine

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Biography

Alderman Thomas J. Manning, member of the board of local improvements and superintendent of sewers, is a native of Maine, borne at Lewistown, March 1, 1856. He had the advantages of a fair common school education, but was early thrown on his own resources and found work in the cotton mills. While still a young man he learned the trade of silver plating and in 1872 decided to come west, working at his trade three years in Milwaukee and then going to St. Paul. In 1877 he located in Quincy and soon after established his present silver plating works. He is one of the first members of the board of local improvements and his work in this important organization has been highly creditable. Last spring he was elected alderman of the Second ward by a substantial majority. Mr. Manning served as trustee of the Supreme Council of the Western Catholic Union two terms and now holds the responsible office of supreme president, to which he was first elected at Springfield in October, 1895. He has held this office for four terms and so well has he discharged the duties of chief executive that he was re-elected at the convention at Joliet last year by acclamation. During his presidency the membership of the union has been increased largely and the affairs of the organization are in a most prosperous condition.^[1]

Sources

1. ↑ Representative Men and Homes, Quincy, Illinois, 1899

• https://archive.org/details/representativeme01wilc/page/132/mode/2up