MCMANUS, SILAS BETTES: 1845-1917.
Silas Bettes McManus was born in Rootstown, O., Sept. 17, 1845. Coming to Indiana as a young man, he was graduated from the Medical College of Fort Wayne and had one year of post graduate work at the University of Michigan. He married Mary Hillegass of Huntertown, Ind., in 1880.
During most of his adult life he contributed to leading magazines, and from 1876 to 1882 he was connected with the Fort Wayne JOURNAL GAZETTE. Beginning in 1892 he served a term as state senator. Dr. McManus died suddenly on Apr. 15, 1917, at his home near Howe, Ind.
Information from the LaGrange Public Library.
- 'Lijah, Delivered August 5th, 1896, at Island Park,
Rome City, Indiana, at the Tri-State Meeting–Ohio, Michigan and
Indiana–of the Knights of Pythias, and with Hale and Fraternal
Regards, Dedicated to the K. of P's, Their Mothers, Wives, Sisters
and Sweethearts. Toledo, n.d.
- Fot Would You Take for Me; and Nine or Ten Other
Rhymes. LaGrange, Ind., n.d. [1894].
- Rural Rhymes. Cincinnati, n.d.
[1898].
