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S. MANN, hardware, etc., Heyworth; was born in Galesburg, Knox Co., Ill., Sept. 12, 1842, where he lived one year, when, with his parents, he moved to Warsaw, Wyoming Co., N. Y., where he lived eighteen years; he then went to Hornellsville, Steuben Co., N. Y., and apprenticed to the tinner’s trade, remaining three and one-half years; he then went to Warsaw and engaged in the business on his own account, continuing fourteen months, when he sold out and went to Kansas City, Mo.; thence to Bloomington, Ill.; thence to Mason City, where he worked at his trade about one year, and then engaged in the business on his own account, continuing four years; he then came to Heyworth and established his present business; at first, he started in a very small way, and, by close attention to business and good management, he kept steadily increasing his stock, until now it not only embraces all the goods found in his line, but includes a general tin, sheet-iron and copper manufactory, in which all goods in this line are made to order in any pattern; he also deals in agricultural implements, and keeps a full variety of the best make on hand. Sept. 12, 1867, he married Miss. Elmira Burnett, of Hornellsville, N. Y.; they had three children, two living— Frankie and Willie.