Family Members Who Served in the Iowa Legislature:Son: Parker W. McManus; GA 19
James McManus
Scott County
Born in Newark, Delaware , and married March 10, 1831, on Long Island, to Sarah Whittlesey, a native of Mystic, Connecticut, her grandfather having been one of the original proprietors of the town. They were the parents of three sons and four daughters. Mr. McManus, Sr., was a stone-cutter and stone-mason; he built the principal stone-works on Fort Hamilton, Long Island. He was a heavy railroad contractor in the East. He came to the West in 1813, brought his family out in 1814, and on March 10 arrived in Davenport. Upon locating here he turned his attention to farming and bought the farm. He was engaged in the mercantile business some time, which he closed out in 1857 and retired from active business life, having previously accumulated an estate of from $50,000 to $75,000. He was elected a member of the first State Legislature of Iowa as a Whig, and obtained the charter for Iowa College, of which he was one of the founders, one of its first trustees, and its first treasurer, and was a trustee at the time of his death, in 1879. James McManus died February 15, 1879 at his residence at the west end of Third Street, Davenport, Iowa.
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