Francis M. Manning Collection, 1740-1985, undated
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Biggs, Thomas, 1793-1855
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Thomas Biggs was a mill owner and enslaver in Martin County, North Carolina. Biggs was the son of William Biggs (1756-1815) and Milly Ward (1758-). Biggs was married to Susan Elizabeth Clements Biggs (1791-) and was a member of Jamesville Primitive Baptist Church, possibly serving as a minister of the church....
Biggs, Asa, 1811-1878
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Asa Biggs was born in Williamston, N.C., on 4 February 1811, and died in Norfolk, Va., on 6 March 1878. He attended the Williamston Academy, studied law, and passed the bar in 1831. Biggs served in the North Carolina Constitutional Convention of 1835; the North Carolina House of Commons in 1840 and 1842; the state Senate in 1844 and 1854; the United States House of Representatives, 1845-1847; and the United States Senate, 1855-1858. Biggs also served as United States District Judge for North Car...
Manning, Francis M., 1903-1982
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Francis Marion Manning (1903-1982) was for many years editor of the Williamston Enterprise, a biweekly, and the Robersonville Weekly Herald. The son of William and Sarah Roberson Manning, he graduated from the University of North Carolina in 1926. Manning returned to Williamston to work on the staff of the Enterprise, which his father and mother had purchased in 1908; his columns on fishing and local characters were regular features of the paper. Active in the North Carolina Press Association, M...
