History of Bourbon, Scott, Harrison and Nicholas Counties, Kentucky, ed.
by William Henry Perrin,  O. L. Baskin & Co., Chicago, 1882.  p. 760.
[Nicholas County]  [Carlisle City and Precinct]

COL. R. E. MANN, grocer, Carlisle, is a son of James and Bettie (Stoker)
Mann, both from Virginia, and early settlers of Nicholas County.  He was
born near Forest Retreat, Nicholas Co., July 21, 1846; is one of eight
children, four of whom are now living: Leonidas, R. E., Alice and Sherman.
Col. Mann received his education in the town of Carlisle.  He was appointed
by the Legislature upon the staff of Governor Leslie, and in the same year
was appointed by the Governor as one of the four commissioners from
Kentucky to the Vienna Exposition.  On account of the death of his sister,
about the time of starting, he was compelled to decline the appointment.
In 1876 he started the only wholesale grocery in Carlisle, which is now
running in connection with eight other stores in different counties.  On
the 29th of June 1876, Col. Mann married Miss Phoebe, daughter of Dr. J.J.
and Pickett (Metcalf) Taylor, of Lexington, Mrs. Taylor being a niece of
Governor Metcalf and a sister-in-law of James Metcalf, who was Secretary
of State under Governor Powell, and represented Nicholas County in the
Legislature two terms.  Colonel Mann has two children: Horace and Madge H.

Mann Stoker Pickett Metcalf
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Lexington-Fayette-KY VA

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