Benjamin Manning
Benjamin Manning was born in Hamilton County, Ohio, in a block-house near the mouth of the Little Miami River, in the year 1793. Here his father—John Manning—built a mill on the Little Miami at Round Bottom. In the year 1799 they removed to Miami County, and built the first mill in the town of Piqua, or where Piqua now stands, for Mr. Manning was one of the proprietors of that town. He ground the flour for Gen. Harrison’s army for their march to Northwest Ohio. Here, in 1815 or 1816, John Manning died. Benjamin Manning came to what is now Shelby County as early as 1817 or 1818, and settled in the south part of the county, in Orange Township, for a year or two, then removed to Perry Township between Christmas and New Year's in 1819. He settled on fractional section 36, which he had entered some time prior. In the year 1831 he built a saw-mill on the Miami River, in which he built a corn cracker. He lived in Perry until the year 1861, when he moved to the town of Sidney, where he died in 1868.
From History of Shelby County, Ohio; R. Sutton & Co, Philadelphia PA, 1883