URIAH MANN, farmer, was born in Bracken county, Kentucky, September 17, 1810. His parents were Peter and Elizabeth (Gaterel) Mann, natives of Virginia and of Dutch-Irish ancestry. He emigrated to this State in October, 1831, locating in Sangamon county, Springfield township, where he entered eighty acres of land, and resided there about eighteen months, when he sold his farm and purchased his present home, situated on section seventeen. His father was born in Virginia, where he followed farming until his death, which occurred in 1833. His mother was born in 1785, in the same State, where her death also occurred. Mr. M. was united in marriage to Miss Elizabeth King, January 6, 1832; she was a daughter of William and Annie R. King. They were the parents of seven children, four of whom are now living, viz: Peter, now a resident of Clear Lake township; Sarah A., now Mrs. George Black; Charles, now farming on the old homestead, and Frances, now Mrs. Grubb. Mrs. M. departed this life September 11, 1860. Mr. M. married for his second wife, Miss Ellen Brumbarger, August 5, 1862; she was a daughter of John and Nancy A. Brumbarger; her parents died when she was two years of age; she was raised by her uncle, Mr. William Chapman. He has had eleven children by his second wife, of whom nine are living, viz: Fannie, Bettie, Ethel, Sonora, Percie A., Richard O., Adeline, Celestia and Mary L. When he commenced life in this State, he had the sum of six and a quarter cents, and by economy and hard work has accumulated considerable property; has owned at one time six hundred acres of land; has sold all but two hundred and thirty-two acres, which he has reserved for a homestead. In 1832, he enlisted in the Black Hawk War, under General Whiteside. His son, Thomas H., enlisted in August, 1862, for three years, in Company I, One Hundred and Fourteenth Illinois Infantry. He was taken prisoner at the battle of Guntown, Mississippi, 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, February 16, 1867, of disease contracted in the rebel prison. Politically, Mr. M. is a Republican, and also a member of the Christian Church; his estimable wife is a member of the Second Baptist Church. Post office, Riverton.