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Mahlon Dickerson Manson (Montgomery County, Indiana, druggist, soldier and politician)

b. 1820-02-20 d. 1894-02-04

Montgomery County, Indiana, druggist, soldier and politician. Piqua, Miami County, Ohio native. Married to Caroline Manson. Father of Laura C. Manson, Mahlon F. Manson, William N. Manson, Sallie Manson, and Mattie Manson. Served in the 5th Indiana Volunteers as captain from 1847 to 1848. Druggist in Union, Indiana in 1850. Served in the Indiana state legislature from 1851 to 1852. Druggist in Crawfordsville in 1860. Served in the 10th Indiana Volunteer Infantry Regiment (U.S.A.) as captain and colonel from May 1861. Served in the Union Army as brigadier general of volunteers from March 1862 to December 21, 1864. Unsuccessful Democratic Party candidate for lieutenant governor in Indiana in 1864.

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White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Montgomery County, Union, p. 435A.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Montgomery County, Union, p. 58.
Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Montgomery County, Crawfordsville, Ward 2, p. 61.
Eliza J. Warner, Jr., Generals in Blue: Lives of Union Commanders, (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1964.
Appletons’ Cyclopedia of American Biography, Vol. VI (New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1889), p. 197.

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Manson, Mahlon Dickerson. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32200981 (November 12, 2026).

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