===================================================================== Match: Bowles Source: INDIANA-L@rootsweb.com From: Lora1957@aol.com Subject: McMaman, Morris, Bowles, This book has no cover, and no index, and no author. I bought it on Ebay; it just has the insides, but it is full of Indiana biographies. I am not researching this family, just thought I would share. I do not know anymore about these families or these surnames. NOTE: I donÄôt know if there is any additional mention of this family in the book, it has no index. I do not want to sell this book. I am typing the biographies from it. Typed by Lora Radiches Morris WILLIAM MCMANAMAN Surnames mentioned in this biography of Morris William McManman are: McMaman, Morris, Bowles, Is a native of Dearborn County, where he has played a varied role of usefulness as a lawyer, public official and a leader to whom the community naturally turns for assistance and cooperation. Mr. McManaman was born in Dearborn County in 1881, son of James and Mary (Morris) McManaman, and a grandson of William McManaman, a native of Pennsylvania, who came to Dearborn County, Indiana, early in the last century. Both grandfather and father were farmers. Mary Morris was a great-great-granddaughter of the distinguished Pennsylvanian, Robert Morris, the financier of the American Revolution. Morris W. McManaman was the only son In a family of five children. Beyond the advantages of the common schools he had to depend on his own exertions and labors to qualify for the law. As a young man he taught school and farmed, in the meantime attended the University of Indiana, and in 1905 took his law degree at the Indianapolis Law School. For a quarter of a century he has been one of the best qualified attorneys of the Dearborn County bar. In connection with his law practice he has for the past seven years performed the duties of county clerk, being first elected to that office in 1922, and in 1926 was reelected. Mr. McManaman married Miss Bessie Bowles, a native of Ohio, daughter of Dr. Thomas Bowles. The English family of Bowles settled in Ohio about 1800. Mr. and Mrs. McManaman have one son, James Thomas, attending school at Lawrenceburg. Mr. McManaman is a member of the Masonic fraternity and for seven years was an elder in the local Presbyterian Church. He was the second president and is now secretary of the Kiwanis Club. During the World war Mr. McManaman neglected his professional work in order to be free at all times to give his service to the Government. He was active in the Liberty Loan drives, served as a member of the draft board, and was otherwise engaged in the war program, of 1917-18.