REV. ABEL MANNING
Born
in Sterling, Mass.
Mar. 11, 1788
Died
Dec. 20, 1879
MARY
Wife of
REV. ABEL MANNING
Died Feb. 6, 1885
AE. 90 yrs. 5 ms.
Rev. Abel Manning was born 14 March 1788 in Sterling,
Massachusetts, the son of Israel Manning and Lydia (Richardson) Wright. He was first a teacher, which helped him to
pay for an education at Brown University.
He graduated in 1817 and then studied divinity with Rev. Nathaniel
Emmons in Franklin, Massachusetts. He
first became the pastor of a tiny church in Goffstown, New Hampshire which had
been nine years without a minster. His
dynamic preaching lead to sixty five people joining the church in 1818-
1819. He was responsible for over 100
conversions during the Second Great Awakening.
Rev. Manning went on to be a missionary in Vermont and throughout the
state of New Hampshire, but he called Goffstown his home.
Abel Manning married Mary Little on 27 Jan 1823 in
Goffstown. She was the daughter of John
Little of Goffstown. They had no children.
The Genealogical and Biographical History of the Manning
Families of New England, by William Henry Manning, 1902, page 390.
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