William B. Manlove – Biography
WILLIAM B. MANLOVE was born in Schuyler County, December 28, 1830, near the town of Rushville. He is the son of Jonathan and Charity (Bodenhamer) Manlove. The former was a farmer of North Carolina and came to this county in the fall of 1830, traveling overland all the way, and settled near Rushville, where he stayed the first winter. The next spring, he went south and settled near Sugar Grove; and in 1834, he sold and moved to Birmingham Township and bought a farm where our subject still lives, of eighty acres. He put up a log house, in which … Read more