Anyone who has pictures, information, corrections and wants to help with this web page history project --- please contact Dave Kusel.

Below: looking northwest on main street.


315 .... 301

 

Below: a 1927 Plat of this block --- Main Street on the right side.


Bank of Manning 1885
307 Main Street

1 Bank of Manning
2 right side Henry Martens tavern & Skinny's Martens News Stand (Skinny is son of Henry) 1926
left side Peter Martens -- hog buyer
3 Ben & Hat's (Ben & Hattie Asmus tavern)
4 Harold's Jewelry (Harold Juels)
5 Le Boutique 1971

Upstairs:
1 Lyden Studio

Basement:
1 Up-To-Date Hair Cut (Roy Cole) 1926
2 Melvin & Earl P. "Curley" Jentsch
3 Stein's Barber Shop (Joseph Stein, Bob Johnson)

 

Veteran's Day parade 1946

Above left to right starting with building to right of flag: 313, 311, 309, 307, 305
313 Coast to Coast, 311 Virginia Cafe, 309 Schelldorf Clothing, 307 ?Ben and Hat's?, 305 Hansen & Pahde Co.

The Le Boutique Salon, first located on the second floor of the Manning Heating and Sheet Metal Building at 223 Main, was purchased by Betty Chase in 1970. The shop soon moved to the building formerly occupied by Harold's Jewelry at 307 Main. Eileen Prebeck bought the business in September, 1979; she is assisted by Joyce Justice.

BANK OF MANNING

The Bank of Manning was organized as a private institution by J.B. Henshaw, president, and W.H. Henshaw, cashier. They sold the bank in 1886, and entered the hardware and implement business in Manning.

The bank was originally located at the northwest corner of Fourth and Main Streets, and moved north in the same block in 1885.

A.T. Bennett purchased the Bank of Manning September 1, 1886, and placed W.F. Carpenter as cashier. The bank's name continued as before.

November 15, 1888, Bennett sold the business to a corporation, known as the State Bank of Manning, which merged the private bank into a state bank. The controlling interest was held by D.C. Dowing and G.W. Humphrey. A year later, G.W. Wattles and F.A. Bennett purchased a controlling interest in the facility. Fred Moershell bought Wattles' interest in 1892, and served as president until 1894; C.D. Dowing then purchased the controlling interest from Moershell and Bennett, and became president. D.W. Sutherland, J.A. Lewis, and S.F. Fry took ownership in December, 1896.

In April, 1898, the stockholders voted to become a private institution once again. Sutherland was elected president, and the name returned to Bank of Manning. Joseph Wilson bought the sole interest of the bank in February, 1899. Wilson operated the bank as its president, with W.F. Carpenter, cashier, until 1923 when the business was discontinued.



The Bank of Manning metal plaque (14x14), which held the calendar at the bottom, was donated back to Manning, Iowa by a descendant of Johann Frederick Hell and Claus Henry Grau who were early Manning area pioneers.

Johann Frederick Hell immigrated to the U.S. in 1855. He was married to Marie Magdalena Bothfur in 1872 and purchased a farm four miles south of Manning, living there until 1908 when they purchased a home in Manning. Both are buried in the Manning Cemetery.
They had 14 children, most of whom lived in or near Manning most of their lives; Johann, William, Ferdinand, Carl, Minnie, Emma, Johannes, Josephine, Elizabeth, Henry, Frank, Anna, Amanda and Leona.

Carl Hell, son of Johann & Marie, married Carolena Grau, granddaughter of Detlef Grau. Carl & Carolena left Manning in 1912 and moved to South Dakota which is where the plaque was located before being sent back to Manning in 2003.

Ida (Grau) Kusel who is a granddaughter of Detlef Grau passed down the complete set of 4 calendars to her daughter, Eunice Ahrendsen. The calendar above is from that collection.

 

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