Note:
The following is a section of a family history compiled by Herbert
Armstrong Poole between 1905 & 1960, transcribed by AAA Maitland 1998.
Subject numbers are HAP's originals.
HAP's page divisions are shown: after subject page numbers are complete
document page numbers in brackets and issue dates.
The original text had generations indented in turn: here, generation
numbers are added to each individual: the children of the title subject
are "1/--".


                              Subject 10.      Page 1 (91)

                           OTIS MANCHESTER.

           The following is mostly from family records, given me by
 Aunt Molly Winslow and cousin Bessie Manchester: and also from "The
 Winslows and their Descendants" by David Parsons Holton (l877), on
 file at the New England Historical & Genealogical Society of Boston.
           Otis Manchester was born at Tiverton, R.I. on March 17/1795
 and died June 7/1880
           He married, 1st, Maria Bishop, at Utica, N.Y. on January
 13/1822, 2nd, Hannah Ingols, born August 1/1799 at Northampton, Mass,
 died January 27/1864.
           I have a Tiverton Newspaper clipping of 1865 reading as
 follows:-A remarkable family meeting: Six brothers, the youngest of
 whom is 57, and whose united age is 356, all met together for the
 first time in their lives this week in the city, and a fraternal time
 they have had of it.  They were all born at Tiverton and by means of
 Colonial Records can trace their Rhode Island lineage back as far as
 1643. The brothers are Robert, our estimable surveyor of lumber, aged
 75: Isaac of Bridgewater, aged 73: Otis of Beloit, aged 70: Humphrey
 of New Bedford, aged 62: Jacob, of the firm of Manchester Hopkins & Co
 of this city, aged 59: and Eli of Utica, aged 57. After spending two
 or three delightful days together, these brothers separate again this
 morning for their several homes, whence they can scarcely expect to
 gather again in one fraternal chain on this side of the dark river.
 But the pleasant memories of this meeting will not fail to cheer and
 refresh the hearts of all, as their shadows lengthen eastward, and
 they look forward to a reunion indissoluble and abiding forever. I,
 (H.A.P.) have a photograph of them, taken at the time of this meeting,
 showing them all baldheaded and wearing wigs, and all of them with
 beards. The Manchesters were all of short of stature.  Issue- (by his
 second wife)
 1.Maria Bishop Manchester. Born December 13/1822 in Utica, N.Y., and
    died in Beloit on March 5/1873. She married on September 20/1847,
    Augustus Poole, born April 12/1820 at Herrick, L.I, and died April
    6/1853 at Beloit, Wisconsin. See Subject 4 for issue and further
    particulars.
 2.Thomas Clark Manchester. Born at Utica 1825, died February 16/1895
    at Detroit, Mich, and buried there. He married on January 20/1848,
    at Beloit, Julia Elizabeth Parrish, born 1833 in New York City: the
    Reverend D. Clary, Minister of the Gospel, performed the ceremony.
    She was only 15 years old when married, and died June 10/1893 at
    Detroit, Michigan.
    Issue :-
    2/1. Allen Elisha Manchester, born in Utica in 1852, and died at
       Detroit on September 11/1924. He was a heavy drinker, deserted
       his family and went to Spokane, Wash: he reformed his ways in
       the last 5 years of his life. When a young man he was sent to a
       Military School, where he married a common Irish girl, by whom
       he had three children, two of whom died. In his last years be
       tried to persuade his sister Elizabeth to support him: he was 17
       years older than she.
    2/2. Augustus Poole Manchester, born in New York City November
       30/1853, died at Elmira, N.Y. September 3/1873, and was brought
       to Detroit for burial.
    2/3. Emily C. Manchester, born at Detroit 1855, died 1859 at Utica.
    2/4. Philip B. Manchester, born May 22/1863. He married Mary Allen,
       who in 1904 was living in New Hampshire. I had the pleasure of
       seeing him in Chicago in 1904, and also his brother Percival.
       They were agents there for the Railway Appliances Co in the
       Colonial Building.

                   Subject 10 P2 (92)
    2/5. Elizabeth Ingols Manchester, (Bessie) was born at Detroit
      November 23/1869. She never married and was, for years a
      librarian in Detroit: I believe she is still alive (1943). She
      inherited half her Aunt Molly Winslow's money and in her later
      years deeded her money to the Christian Science Society in return
      for looking after her for the rest of her life, which she has
      spent at their various hostelries around Boston. She was a pretty
      girl and I had the pleasure of seeing her In Beloit in 1904 and
      again in our Milton home in 1935.
    2/6. Percival Manchester, born January 15/1870. He was married on
      June 6/1902,  name  of wife unknown, and lives in Evanston, a
      suburb of Chicago.
    2/7. Frederick  Manchester, born in Detroit in 1871, died August
      2/1872.
3. Elisha Wells Manchester. Born May 14/1826, died 1907 at San
   Francisco.  He married on January 19/1852, Mary Abigail Porter, born
   December 23/1834. He was a heavy drinker and spent the latter part
   of his life in San Francisco. He was bald, with a long beard, and a
   very patriarchal looking man, of pleasant and kindly ways. I saw him
   in San Francisco in 1888 on out way out to Japan.
4. Henrietta Ingols Manchester  born October 16/1830, died January
   1/1858.  She married on August 11/1857, Andrew Battin of New
   Orleans.
5. Mary Ingols Manchester (Molly). Born April 22/1837 in New York City,
died January 17 in her own house at 716 Parker Ave, Beloit, of
a sudden attack of Angina Pectoris, in great suffering. She was married
by the Rev Fayette Royce at Beloit on September 10/1872 to Charles
Dickson Winslow, born at Salem, N.Y. on July 1,1835, died at Beloit
July 2/1897. He was a distant connection of hers, as the Manchesters
and Winslows had intermarried in Tiverton between 1600 and 1700. He was
the son of Jared Goodrich Winslow, born at Hillsdale, N.Y. March 6
1807, and Charlotte Dickson, born October 10/1813, at Middlefield,
Hampshire County, Mass. They  were married on October 15/18534 at
Salina, Otaga County, N.Y. Jared was Supervisor and Member of the
Wisconsin Territorial Legislature. His ancestry goes back from Jared,
Prince, John, Kenelm and Kenelm, born April 29/1599; Kenelm 1st, came
to Plymouth, Mass with his brother Josiah and died at Salem, Mass on
September 13/l672. Kenelm, the first emigrant was the third son of
Edward Winslow and his second wife Magdelene (Ollyver) Winslow, of
Droitwitch, Worcestershire, England. Charles Dickson Winslow was a
Hardware Merchant, a good and successful business man, who left Molly
well off. They had no children. Charles had a brother five years
younger than himself, named the Rev Lyman Walker Winslow, who graduated
at Beloit College in 1863 and Andover in 1867, and rode across the
plains by horseback to California for his health in 1868.  He became
Pastor at Hydesville, California until 1872, and returned to Wisconsin
at Peshtigo, where he was Pastor at the Congregational Church.  Molly
was a tiny woman, alert, keen, except hearing, to the end of her 85
years of life. Far many years in her later life, Aunt Nettie Poole
Husted lived with her in Beloit and looked after her. She left her
money to Nettie and Bessie Manchester, in equal shares: on her death
Nettie left her money to her brother Otis Angustus Poole.

                           Subject 10 P3 (93)

         The following paragraph appears on H.A.Poole's copy of Subject
10, OTIS MANCHESTER, page 1.

         A book entitled "Pioneers of Utica", by Dr. M.M.Bagg, Utica,
1877, page 449, has the following account of Otis Manchester:-

         About 1818, a merchant tailor named F.W.Tryon, set up a
    business in which he was joined a year or two later, by Otis
    Manchester.  Thus was originated a house which, though it underwent
    some changes, has had its representative here to a quite recent
    period. The former, a man of gentlemanly bearing, had learned his
    trade in Clinton and there gotten his wife, Miss Laura Hobby of
    Whitesboro.  About 1826 Mr.Tryon left Utica and went to the
    metropolis where he was a fashionable tailor and an importer of
    cloths, popular and prosperous. Mr. Manchester, with varying
    partners, remained in the concern until after 1845, when he gave it
    up to his brother Eli Manchester and Grove Penney, both of whom had
    been trained in the shop. Penney established an interest in the
    firm. Otis, after being a little while with Mr.Kingsley, moved to
    Beloit, Wisconsin.  The house was always in good favor and
    Mr.Manchester too obliging and honorable ever to have an enemy.


See also Subject 2, sheet 1, Otis Augustus Poole's description of his
grandfather Otis Manchester, after he had moved to Beloit.


IGI 5/11/93, file MANCH01:

MANCHESTER, Maria B M: 27 Sep 1847
  Spouse: Augustus POOLE            Utica, Oneida, New York

MANCHESTER, Maria Bishop C: 1 Jan 1825
  Father: MANCHESTER                First Presbyterian Church, Utica,
  Mother:                                   Oneida, New York