Manners, Joseph D.

Born: 1819-XX-XX Indiana

Died: 1875-12-09 East Saint Louis, Illinois

Joseph D. Manners was an attorney, Methodist, and a Republican. On May 15, 1845, he married Susan Ann E. Proctor, with whom he had multiple children. He was a member of the Highland Republican Club at least as early as 1858, and served as one of Madison County, Illinois's delegates to the 1858 Illinois Republican Convention. Madison County's Republicans also appointed him as an alternate delegate to the 1860 Illinois Republican Convention. By 1860, he owned $2,600 in real and personal property. In July of that year, delegates from Illinois's Fourteenth Judicial District elected him district attorney. In 1863, he received admission to practice in the U.S. Circuit Court, Southern District of Illinois.

History of St. Clair County, Illinois (Philadelphia: Brink, McDonough, 1881), 97; Amos P. Spencer, Centennial History of Highland, Illinois: 1837-1937 (Highland, IL: Highland Centennial Association, [1937]), 88; Illinois, U.S., Compiled Marriages, 1791-1850, 15 May 1845, Hamilton County (Provo, UT: Ancestry.com Operations, 1997); U.S. Census Office, Seventh Census of the United States (1850), Upper Alton, Madison County, IL, 383; John Blattner and Others to Abraham Lincoln and Lyman Trumbull; Daily Illinois State Journal (Springfield), 17 June 1858, 2:3, Illinois Daily State Journal30 April 1860, 2:2, 24 June 1863, 2:3; U.S. Census Office, Eighth Census of the United States (1860), Madison County, IL, 106; History of Madison County, Illinois (Edwardsville, IL: W. R. Brink, 1882), 179; The Greenville Advocate (IL), 2 August 1860, 2:2-3; The Belleville Weekly Advocate (IL), 17 December 1875, 1:4.