Mont Manor
Mont Manor, a farmer of Caesarscreek township, and the proprietor of the old Ford farm on rural mail route No. 6 out of Xenia, was born on what then was known as the Andrew Baughman farm two miles west of Xenia on April 2, 1864, son of John H. and Catherine (Bagford) Manor, the former of whom was born in Virginia and the latter, at Hagerstown, Maryland, who had come to this county with their respective parents in the days of their youth, were here married and here spent their last days.
John H. Manor was a son of George Manor and wife and was but a child when he came to Greene county with his parents, the family driving through from Virginia and settling on a farm west of Xenia, where George Manor and his wife spent the remainder of their lives. They were the parents of six children, of whom John H. was the last-born, the others being Emma, who married Robert Gowdy; Elizabeth, who married Joseph Nisonger; Hester, who married Perry Nisonger; Mary, who married Jacob Elwell, and Alfred, who married and moved to Indiana. John H. Manor grew to manhood on the home farm west of Xenia and after his marriage located on the Andrew Baiighman farm, two miles west of Xenia, where he spent the rest of his life in farming, his death occurring there on March 17, 1883, he then being fifty-four years of age. He was a Republican and he and his wife were members of the Lutheran church. His widow survived him for some years, she being sixty-nine years of age at the time of her death. For some time after the death of her husband she made her home in Delaware county, Indiana, but returned to Greene county on a visit and died at the home of her son Mont, the subject of this sketch. She was born Catherine Amelia Bagford, at Hagerstown, Maryland, and was but a child when she came with her parents to Greene county. She was the last-born of the six children born to her parents, the others having been Calvin, who moved to Indiana: William, who made his home in the neighboring county of Warren; Mary, who married William McClellan and lived west of Xenia; Comfort, who was twice married, her first husband having been John Hollingshead and her second, Jonas Hiney, both of this county, and Julia, who remained unmarried. To John H. and Catherine A. (Bagford) Manor were born six children, of whom the subject of this sketch was the third in order of birth, the others being as follows: George, who is operating a dray line in Xenia; William, deceased; Clinton, who is a farmer, living west of Xenia; Minnie, now a resident of Shideler, in Delaware county, Indiana, who has been twice married, her first husband having been William Brown and her second, Frank Shady; and A. B., also a resident of Shideler, where he is engaged as a stationary engineer.
Mont Manor grew up on the farm on which he was born, received his schooling in the Xenia schools and remained on the home farm until his marriage at the age of twenty-four years, after which, for five years, he lived on his mother's farm at Shideler, Indiana, and managed it. He then returned to Greene county, later moving to Daytoo, but a year later returned to his home county and for two years thereafter rented a farm near Cedarville, after that becoming engaged in farming on a farm on the Dayton pike, where he remained for something more than three years, at the end of which time he became engaged in teaming in Xenia and was thus engaged for five years. He then resumed farming and was thus engaged in New Jasper township for three years, or until 1911, when he bought the farm of seventy-eight acres on which he is now living, known as the Ford place, in Caesarscreek township. Mr. Manor is a Republican, and Mrs. Manor is a member of the Reformed church at Maple Corner.
On February 23, 1888, Mont Manor was united in marriage to Margaret E. Dean, who was born in the neighboring county of Montgomery, daughter of David and Cornelia (Darner) Dean, both of whom were born in the vicinity of Dayton, in that same county, and who were the parents of eight children, of whom Mrs. Manor was the fourth in order of birth, the others being as follow: William, who is a carpenter, living at Dean, in Montgomery county; Lottie, who married Edward Derby and is living at Rochester, New York; Harry, who died in youth; Daisy, wife of James Hayes, of Dean; Bertha, wife of Samuel Jackson, of Dayton; Gertrude, wife of Thomas Collins, of Dayton, and Charles, a carpenter, also living at Dayton. David Dean, the father of these children, was a building contractor, for years justice of the peace in and for his home township and for three terms a member of the board of county commissioners of Montgomery county. He was a Republican and he and his wife were members of the United Brethren church. He died in August, 1905, at the age of sixty-nine years. His wife's death occurred on July 27, 1901, at the age of sixty-two. To Mr. and Mrs. Manor have been born three children, namely: Harry Dean Manor, an employee of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, living at Xenia, who married Lila Kildow and has four children, Elizabeth E., Noel Dean, Harry Ronald and Charles; Cornelia Kathryn, who married Orie F. Clemmer, who is now at Camp Sherman in the National Army, and Charles David Manor, who is at home.
From History of Greene County Ohio, Its People, Industries and Institutions, vol. 2. M.A.Broadstone, editor. B.F.Bowen & Co., Indianapolis. 1918