- OTIS MANCHESTER was born March 17, 1795, in Liverton, Newport
Co., R.I., and came to
- Wisconsin in the latter part of July, 1845, to look after
his property in Rock Co., consisting of a farm of 480 acres;
in 1811, he went to Providence, R.I., and served an apprenticeship
at tailoring; in the fall of 1816, he went to New Bedford, Mass.,
and opened a tailoring establishment on his own account; then
worked as journeyman in New York City a short time, and on July
20, 1817, went to Utica, N.Y., where in the winter of 1818, he
engaged in the tailoring business, which he carried on for forty
years with good success; in 1834 he also opened a tailoring establishment
at 175 Broadway in connection with Joseph HOXIE, under the firm
name of MANCHESTER & HOXIE, and shortly thereafter bought
out the interest of Mr. HOXIE, and removed to 187 Broadway, at
the head of John street; he continued there for six months, when
he removed to what was then known as Store No. 2, under the Astor
House, which he carried on for four years; in 1840, he went back
to Utica to look at the interest of the business at that place;
from Utica he removed to Beloit, where he opened a general store
in connection with Mr. John N. REYNOLDS, which building he bought,
and shortly after, the adjoining corner store, now occupied by
WINSLOW & ROSENBERG. Mr. MANCHESTER was elected and served
as Alderman in Utica, and was also President of the Mechanics'
Association of Utica. Mr. MANCHESTER married Jan. 13, 1819,
Maria BISHOP, daughter of Deacon David BISHOP, of Paris, Oneida
Co., N.Y.; he married the second time, Jan. 13, 1821, Hannah
INGALS, of Northampton, Mass; has three children living - Thomas
Clark, Elisha Wells, and Mary Ingall. Mr. MANCHESTER is a member
of the First Presbyterian Church at Beloit.
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- [Transcriber's Note: The writer spells Mr. Manchester's
2nd wife's last name as INGALS, yet spells the daughter's middle
name as Ingall. Knowing that children were sometimes given the
mother's maiden name as their middle name... perhaps one or the
other in the bio is misspelled by the writer. And - yes - both
marriages were on the same day of the same month (different year
of course).]
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- Taken from "The History of Rock County, Wis."
(c)1879, pp. 757-758.
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- Courtesy of Carol
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