MANN, URIAH, was born Sept. 17, 1810, in Bracken county, Ky. He came to Sangamon county with his sister, Anna, and her husband, Thomas A. King, arriving the first Sunday in Oct., 1831. He was a soldier in the Black Hawk war, in 1832, in the same regiment with Capt. Abraham Lincoln, with whom he had many a wrestling match. Uriah Mann was married Jan. 6, 1832, in Sangamon county, to Elizabeth King. They had seven children in Sangamon county, two of whom died young.

PETER, born July 23, 1833, married Sept. 17, 1854, to Carrie J. Knox. They had five living children. URIAH died Feb., 1870, in his ninth year. CLARENCE A., LUELLA B., ALLEN and OLIVER live with their parents, adjoining Camp Butler National Cemetery on the east.

SARAH A., born Jan. 27, 1836, married George W. Black. See his name.

THOMAS H., born April 6, 1843, in Sangamon county, enlisted Aug., 1862, for three years, in Co. I, 114th Ill. Inf. He was taken prisoner at the battle of Guntown, Miss., June 10, 1864; was ten months in Andersonville prison pen, exchanged about the close of the rebellion, and honorably discharged June 14, 1865, at Springfield, and died at home Feb. 16, 1867, of disease contracted in the rebel prison.

CHARLES V., born Dec. 26, 1846, lives with his father.

MARY F., born March 2, 1853, lives with her father.

Mrs. Elizabeth Mann died Sept. 9, 1861, and Uriah Mann was married Aug. 25, 1862, to Ellen Brimbarger, who was born Sept. 8, 1839, in Gallatin county, Ky. They had eight children. URIAH GRANT and ELIZABETH S., died in their seventh and third years, respectively. FANNIE B., BETTIE, ETHEL M., SONORA, PERCES ANN and RICHARD OGLESBY live with their parents, on the farm where Mr. Mann settled in 1835. It is five miles east of Springfield, adjoining Camp Butler.

Uriah Mann hauled all the rails and timber, for improving his farm, on a wagon constructed by himself, without any iron, the wheels being hewn each from a single piece of timber, from the largest tree he could find. His house was built by himself, of round logs. Histables, cupboard and other furniture were made from wild cherry lumber. In the absence of saw-mills, he split the timber into broad slabs, fastened them into a snatch block, hewed them to a uniform thickness, and after waiting a sufficient time for them to season, worked them into his household furniture. The first meal he ate in his own house, the meat was hog's jowl, and the bread made from frostbitten corn. He hauled the first wheat he raised for sale to St. Louis, and sold it for thirty-five cents in trade. He is now among the most successful farmers of the county.