I ran across the Delaware County Horace Mann rather frequently when I was looking for a connection to my William Mann. I don't remember the reasons, but I know I came to the conclusion that he was not related to "the" Horace Mann. Both names were quite common, and it appears to be coincidence. Ann ----- Original Message ----- From: "Florence" <hkemp@insight.rr.com> To: <nydelawa@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, January 23, 2007 10:15 AM Subject: [NYDELAWA] Photos in Old House > Thank you for sharing your interesting finds. The name Horace Mann > rang a bell with me, so I checked a little. He was a famous educator > and attorney, also an anti-slavery member of the U.S. House of > Representative. He was from Massachusetts and not connected to New > York in any way I could see right away. Your Horace Mann could be a > descendant, however. > > Florence from Ohio > > Begin forwarded message: > >> From: Tom Buffington <mhr6068@gmail.com> >> Date: January 23, 2007 12:35:12 AM EST >> To: nydelawa@rootsweb.com >> Subject: Re: [NYDELAWA] Pictures >> Reply-To: nydelawa@rootsweb.com >> >> Hi Catherine, yes this is an interesting place. We have one of >> those very >> shallow closets in what I'm guessing was the office when the >> attorney lived >> here. (Just looked at the paperwork again, the attorneys name was >> Horace >> Mann). I never knew what it was for until I read about someone else >> having >> one and discovering it was for the old style hats, stove pipes and >> such. I'm >> still finding things here, just found some very old license plates >> that were >> used to cover holes in the floor, lots of interesting stuff about! >> >> On 1/22/07, Catherine Havemeier <catgh@msn.com> wrote: >>> >>> >>> >>> Hi Tom, >>> What an interesting history! My grandmother's sister was Marion >>> Kemp. Her >>> husband, Rob, farmed in Meridale on what is now Kemp Road. She >>> had two >>> children who never married: Russel and Nell, who was a >>> teacher.Their house >>> was a beautiful Victorian on the main street of Franklin. Nell was >>> there >>> till she died in the 1940s. >>> Thanks for the reply. >>> Catherine >>> >>> >>> To contact list administrator send email to nydelawa- >>> admin@rootsweb.com >>> ------------------------------- >>> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >>> NYDELAWA-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the >>> quotes in the subject and the body of the message >>> >> To contact list administrator send email to nydelawa- >> admin@rootsweb.com >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to NYDELAWA- >> request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes >> in the subject and the body of the message > > To contact list administrator send email to nydelawa-admin@rootsweb.com > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > NYDELAWA-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > >