Colusa County Biographies

Alexander Bonaparte Manor

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            Alexander Bonaparte Manor is a native of Lucas County, Ohio, born 
December 24, 1824.  His parents were French Canadians.  He was brought up on a 
farm and worked thereon till his twenty-fourth year.  He then set out for 
California with an ox-team, crossing the plains via Salt Lake and Truckee, 
reaching Grass Valley in the summer of 1849.  After tempting fortune in the 
mines unsuccessfully for two years, he turned his young energies to teaming, at 
which he was employed for four years.  In 1855 he moved to San Francisco, where 
he resided until 1859, being engaged in conducting a feed store on his own 
account.  Mr. Manor next moved to Yolo County, near Cacheville, where he farmed 
for eleven years.  In 1872, disposing of his place here, he removed with his 
family to his present place of abode, on Freshwater, though he had located three 
thousand one hundred acres of land there two years before coming to reside 
thereon.  He has since added to his land possessions so that he now owns four 
thousand one hundred and sixty-four acres.
            In 1859 Mr. Manor was married to Mrs. Martha Rice, of Yolo County, 
daughter of Matthew Smith, of Spencersburg, Pike County, Missouri, by whom he 
has had three children, four other children of the household being his 
step-children.
 
�Colusa County� � by Justus H. Rogers � Orland, CA � 1891 � pp 444