An Illustrated History of the State of Washington, by Rev. H.K. Hines, D.D., The
Lewis Publishing Co., Chicago, IL., 1893, page 300
	
	JOHN MANWELL, a Clarke county farmer, was born in Kosciusko county, Indiana,
March 16, 1852, his parents being William and Elizabeth (Shumaker) Manwell, both
natives of Ohio. The Manwells are of French ancestry, the first emigration to
America antedating the Revolutionary war, in which struggles the
great-grandfather of our subject participated.
	Mr. Manwell, whose name heads this brief sketch, is the fifth of the eleven
children of his parents. The family removed to Buchanan county, Iowa, and
thirteen years afterward to Cherokee county, Kansas, and after three years there
back to Iowa, where they remained until 1871, when they came to Washington. They
now live some thirty-six miles northeast of the city of Vancouver. The farm
consists of 160 acres, twenty-five under cultivation, and includes a nice little
orchard. Mr. Manwell devotes his farm mainly to the rearing of live stock, and
to some extent to dairying. The residence is beautifully located in a valley and
directly at the base and under the shadow of Tum-tun mountain.
	In his political views Mr. Manwell is a Republican. He is now a member of
the Board of School Directors of District No. 71.
	He was married May 2, 1889, to an estimable widow, Mrs. Phoebe Tenant, nee
Fuller, a native of the State of New York, and they have one son, John Harrison,
born May 5, 1891. By her former marriage Mrs. Manwell has three children:
Myrtle, Nolan and Pearl Tenant.
	
Submitted to the WA. Bios Project in September 2003 by Jeffrey L. Elmer
	
	
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