Austin Brooks Manion

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Resolutions and Journal entries

• 28th Legislature, R.S., 3/20/1903, p. 881. Resolutions - Memorial.

Biographical Sketches

• Biographical sketch of Col. James G. Bourland, general notes, noted events in his life. Relatives: Col. James G. Bourland, father-in-law; Col. A.B. Manion, son-in-law. Ancestors of Col. James G. Bourland, 2009.
• Austin Brooks Manion, birth date 1/14/1818, death date 3/18/1903, burial in Orlena Cemetery, Dexter, Cooke County, with father-in-law, James G. Bourland. Includes photo, biographical sketch, and obituary in Gainesville Daily Register, 3/18/1903. Find a Grave.
• Biographical sketch, p. 120. Native of Kentucky; "Resides with his family upon his farm in Cooke county, near the town of Dexter." Sketches of Legislators and State Officers, Fifteenth Legislature, 1876-1878, 1876.

Other Resources

• Mentioned in biographical sketch of John G. Young, pp. 937-938. Biographical Souvenir of the State of Texas, Containing Biographical Sketches of the Representative Public, and Many Early Settled Families, 1889.
• Several references to Austin Brooks Manion, born 1818 Allen County, Kentucky; died 1903 Dexter, Texas; marriage 1 to Hannah Ann Bourland, daughter of Col. James G. Bourland (Senator in 1st-2nd Legislatures), 1841. Notes an obituary of A.B. Manion dated March 19, 1903. Book available at Texas State Library & Archives, 929.2 B667a, Genealogy Collection. Bourland in North Texas and Indian Territory During the Civil War: Fort Cobb, Fort Arbuckle & the Wichita Mountains, 2006.
• Patricia Adkins-Rochette, author of Bourland in North Texas and Indian Territory During the Civil War: Fort Cobb, Fort Arbuckle & the Wichita Mountains (2006) response to genealogist's query, "Washington-Howard Cem, Cooke-Grayson County line," 6/23/2009, identifies A.B. Manion as Ambrose Brooks Manion: "Ambrose Brooks Manion's (1818-1903) 1st marriage was to Col James Bourland's oldest dau Hannah Ann 'Ann' (1824-1859), who died after 9 ch. He married three more times, his 2d and 3d wife died young." 3rd wife Esther Howard, 2/18/1869. The Civil War Message Board Portal, 2003.
• Census of 1860 - A.B. Manion, Gainesville, Cooke County, age 42, born circa 1818 in Kentucky, farmer, living in household with children Ellen V., George A., and Francis W.
  Census of 1870 - Austin B. Manion, Gainesville, Cooke County, age 52, born circa 1818 in Kentucky, farmer, living in household with Hester (age 34, born in Illinois), Georgian, and Francis W.
  Census of 1880 - A.B. Manion, Cooke County, age 62, born circa 1818 in Kentucky, wife Sarah, stepson Frank Jones, stepdaughter Sallie Jones, daughter Ann.
  Census of 1900 - Austin B. Manion, Cooke County, age 82, born January 1818 in Kentucky, farmer, wife Sarah L. FamilySearch. 1860 1870 1880 1900
• Mentioned in biographical sketch of Captain John G. Young (married Georgie A. Manion, A.B. Manion's daughter), volume IV, p. 1669. A History of Texas and Texans, 1914.

Photographs

• Photograph. A.B. Manion, 15th Legislature, State Preservation Board

Composite Photographs on Display in the Capitol

• 15th session composite photo of House members (Ground floor elevator vestibule, east wall. GW.V3). State Preservation Board.

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