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CHARLES E. MANBY, chemist, National tube-works company, McKeesport, was born in 1853, at Morecambe, Lancashire, England, the second son of the late Rev. E. F. Manby, B. A., of Cambridge University, and vicar of Morecambe parish for thirty-three years. He was educated at Lancaster and Barrow was a student of chemistry with Prof. Richards, F. I. C., and after completing his course was appointed chemist to the steel and wagon works, Barrow. In 1880 he was appointed manager of the Lincolnshire Iron-Smelting company, near Brigg, Lincolnshire. He came to America in 1882, with letters of introduction to Prof. Eggleston, of Columbia College, New York, and others; to Mr. Swank, of Philadelphia, Capt. Jones, of Braddock Steel works W. D. Weeks, of Pittsburgh, and several others. During his connection with the National Tube-works company, as chemist he has taken out several patents for coating iron pipe, one of which is familiarly known as Silvertin Kalamein, and which durable coating has proved a great success, and in 1888 he introduced a new method for reducing the wasted oxides of the Kalamein metallic alloy, and secured a patent for the same. In 1877 he was made secretary to the Barrow Naturalists’ Field Club, during which time he had the honor of introducing a new mineral, which he discovered in some kind of granite rock found in certain clay-beds on Walney island, and which he named vermicellite mica. In 1886 Mr. Manby married Miss Master, of Norwich, daughter of Dr. Master, F. R. C. S., London. Mr. Manby has three brothers in New Mexico, proprietors of a very successful cattle ranch near Raton. Mr. Manby is interested in a new enterprise with the Union Encaustic Tile company, limited, and of which he is the chairman.