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I'm posting the older Monitor articles I scan at these links so as not to over-load my main web page.
Monitor Archives 1 scanned 2026 - updated April 2
Monitor Archives 2 scanned 2026 - updated July 14
Monitor Archives 3 scanned 2026 - updated July 14
I will continue to add more Monitor articles down below, as I continue to scan them, along with corresponding information for some of them, so you may need to scroll down on the right side to find some of the more recent articles featured.
May 24, 1883, Manning Monitor
Interesting how the Northwestern (Southwestern) and Manning fought...
May 31, 1883, Manning Monitor
I discovered 3 more Civil War Veterans in this article: John Cooke, W.L. Culbertson, and L.L. Putzel
Unfortunately didn't find any more information about them with some quick searches on the Internet.
May 10, 1883, Manning Monitor
May 17, 1883, Manning Monitor
April 5, 1883, Manning Monitor
April 5, 1883, Manning Monitor
April 19, 1883, Manning Monitor
April 26, 1883, Manning Monitor
March 22, 1883, Manning Monitor
Not sure where the "American House" hotel
was located in Manning
I wasn't aware of this apparently famous person but he walked around Manning during a train layover.
From the Internet
Eli Perkins
Melville De Lancey Landon (1839 - 1910), also known by his pen name Eli Perkins, was an American humorist, lecturer, and journalist.
January 25, 1883
January 25, 1883
There is so little information about McPherson Post 33 so I am excited to find this article.
It lists some of the Veterans and their military rank - a couple of which
I did not have.
January 25, 1883
Oh if they would have only published
some of their stories in the Monitor!!!
I had never read about this aspect before.
It shows how the North and South either heal their wounds and move forward or carry on the hate forever.
People today could learn from this healing!
January 25, 1883
Orrin Wyatt
Unfortunately I have not found a picture of his brother Merlin who died
in 1918 from the Spanish Influenza.
In whose memory the hospital was named after.
Jim Stoffers searched and found this image of Merlin.
I've often wondered if Orrin had a portrait of Merlin
hanging in the hospital.
Then like happens so often, someone who has no appreciation and respect for history took it down and put it in a box.
Then years later a janitor or someone cleaning house, who would have no idea who Merlin was, just threw away the picture.
All speculation but having
tried to preserve Manning's history for 50 years - I've seen this time and again.
Korean War Veterans continues
For those of you who are occasional visitors to the Manning Exchange - please make sure to click on the "archived articles" section where previous featured stories are kept.
"Let it be known that he who wears the military order of the purple heart has given of his blood in the defense of his homeland and
shall forever be revered by his fellow countrymen."
George Washington, August 7, 1782
Just as a reminder: the Manning History book committee continues to work on a Manning area Veterans' history book
project.
For those of you who are Veterans or have/had Veterans in your family - will you come forward?
The history book committee will do their best to get as many pictures and information about the 1000+ Manning Veterans
but we can't do it all by ourselves.
How many small communities do you know have published 5 history books? The first one was the History of Manning 1898, then the 1981 Manning Centennial book, next the 2006 Manning Quasqui book, and most recently the 2009 Manning School history book. Probably the last book to be published will be the upcoming Manning Veterans' book - unless someone comes forward in the next generation to take over these projects after I'm gone. Will you help with the Veterans' history book project? If you are a Manning connected Veteran or are presently serving and do not submit your military connected pictures and infomation you probably won't be in this once-in-a-life-time Manning Veterans' history book. With a limited number of volunteers we can only do so much on our own but will try to get pictures of as many Veterans as we can. There are over 1000 Manning Veterans so we have a long ways to go before the book can be published.
Manning Veterans are slowly coming forward and below is another example. We hope to eventually get more pictures and information for Mike to put in the book but for now this is what I have to show to you.
One thing that many Veterans and people who are submitting information have not fully understood is that this next
Manning history book is specifically a Veterans' only book. It won't be like the Centennial or Quasqui history books were,
where there is a Veterans' section along with other community aspects. We are aiming for a 2-volume book (around 1090 total pages) which will really be unique!!!
This book will be ALL Veterans' information (and the post auxiliaries) - hence it
won't be a "Name, Rank, and Serial Number" only history but we want a complete history for each Veteran.
For instance - below is Louis Boell's picture and the information
that was published in the Veteran section of the 1982 Aspinwall Centennial history book. It has the basic
information but we are looking for more and I spoke to Louie by phone and he sent more pictures
and information - also for his brothers.
To see what Louis submitted click on the link underneath "Are you a Manning Veteran" shown below.
Note: we also want some family background such as parents and grandparents. All too often you will only see just the Veteran's name with their basic military information but without the family connections it will be difficult for future historians and genealogists to know for sure who this person belongs to.
Please e-mail me about your Veteran questions manningveterans@davidkusel.com
1 Manning citizen served in the War of 1812
109 served in the Civil War
1 served in the Indian War
5 served in the Spanish American War
350+ served during WWI
650+ served during WWII
87+ served in the Korean war era
65+ (more names need to be found) served in the Vietnam era
55+ (many more names need to be found) served from 1975 to present
29 paid the ultimate price with their lives defending the U.S. Flag
We are starting the Manning Veterans' history book project
Don't wait until you see "Deadline" or it WILL be too late!!!
Click to read promos for the Veteran book
If you simply don't want those old family pictures you inherited please don't throw them - send them my way.
A lot of times I can recognize a face or location in those old pix.
One thing to keep in mind while you are looking for pictures - if they are glued in old scrap books please do NOT try to pull them out or cut them out. I can scan the whole page of the scrapbook and crop out the pictures you want to use in the book. If you attempt to forcibly remove the pictures you will probably damage them and when I scan them that damage will probably show up. This means I'll either have to use my graphics program to touch up the damage which can take a lot of time, or if they are badly damaged I just may not even take the time to scan them.