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Corley, Manuel Simeon

merchant, legislator, congressman, was born Feb. 10, 1823, in Lexington county, S. C.

During 1854-56 he was editor and owner of the South Carolina Temperance Standard. In his youth he was apprenticed to learn the tailor's trade, and became a successful merchant tailor of Lexington, S. C. In 1868 he was a member of the South Carolina constitutional convention; and in 1868-69 a member of the fortieth congress. He has been United States treasury agent; chief of South Carolina bureau of agricultural statistics; and treasurer of his county. From boyhood he has loved freedom and hated slavery, and his utterances on these questions for a long time imperiled his life.