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Manogue, Patrick

bishop, was born in 1831, in Ireland. He is a prominent Roman catholic bishop of Virginia City, Nev.

MANROSS, NEWTON SPAULDING, mining engineer, was born June 20, 1825, in Bristol, Conn. He visited mines and metallurgical establishments in Europe; and in 1853 he was sent with an exploring expedition to South America, and spent several months in examining the gold region of the Yuruari between Orinoco and Amazon rivers. He died Sept. 7, 1862, in Sharpsburg, Md.

MANSFIELD, EDWARD DEERING, lawyer, journalist, author, was born Aug. 17, 1801, in New Haven, Conn. He was a lawyer and journalist of Cincinnati, and the author of Utility of Mathematics; Treatise on Constitutional Law; Political Grammar of the United States; Legal Rights, etc., of Married Women; Life of General Scott; History of the Mexican War; American Education; Memoirs of D. Drake; Popular Life of General Grant; and Personal Memories. He died Oct. 27, 1880, in Morrow, Ohio.

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