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Données personnelles William Jameson Mantanye 

• Autre nom: William Jameson Montanye
• Il est né le 17 octobre 1843 dans Freetown, Cortland County, NY.
• Il est décédé le 9 juillet 1912 dans Cortland, NY, il avait 68 ans.
• Il est enterré dans Cortland Rural Cemetery.
• Un enfant de William C. Mantanye et Betsy Fuller
• Cette information a été mise à jour pour la dernière fois le 6 juin 2021.

Famille de William Jameson Mantanye

Il est marié avec Emma Susan Cloyes.

Ils se sont mariés le 18 septembre 1872, il avait 28 ans.

Enfant(s):

1. Fanny T. Mantanye  1879-???? 

Notes par William Jameson Mantanye

From the Regimental History of the 76th New York
MANTANYE, WILLIAM J. - Taken prisoner at Gettysburg July 1st, 1863; re-enlisted, February 9th, 1864; detailed to Brigade Headquarters October 8th, 1864; discharged at close of war, by General Order No. 158.
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From "Grips" Historical Souvenir of Cortland, 1899
William Jameson Mantanye was born at Freetown, Cortland county, New York, October 17, 1843, and was a son of William Mantanye who then carried on a wagon factory at that place, but later on changed to mercantile pursuits and was for many years before and during the Civil War supervisor of his town. His mother was Betsey Fuller, daughter of Eleazer Fuller, who came from Monson, Massachusetts, in 1810 and settled upon one hundred acres about a mile north of Freetown Corners, purchased by him by contract of Nicholas Fish of New York, the deed being given in 1815. First living in a log house, Squire Fuller made out of the forest the best farm in Freetown and built the finest house in the town - a large two-story mansion, later owned by Chauncey Tuttle and thence known as the 'Tuttle Farm."  William J. Mantanye attended the district school at Freetown and after he was 12 years old worked on a farm every summer. In the fall of 1859 and again in 1860 he attended the Homer academy. In the winter of 1860-61 he taught school in one of the lumbering districts on the north fork of the Conanesque, near Westfield, Tioga Co., Penn.

On the first call for three-year troops he enlisted in Co. D, 76th N. Y. Infantry, and served through the war at the front in the Army of the Potomac. He was wounded at second Bull Run Aug. 29, 1862, but not seriously and returned to his regiment next day. At Gettysburg he was taken prisoner July 1, 1863, and paroled on the field July 4, but as the government held and continuing it ever since.

In May, 1869, he opened a law office at Marathon where he practiced until the spring of 1888, when he removed to Cortland, which has ever since been his residence. In 1872 Mr. Mantanye married Emma, the oldest daughter of David C. Cloyes, a prominent merchant of Cortland. They have one child, a daughter, Fanny.

Mr. Mantanye has been a steadfast Republican all his life. After the war he was active in the party, being frequently a delegate to State conventions and a member of the Republican county committee. In 1882-3 he was a member of the Republican State committee for the Onondaga-Cortland district and of the executive committee of the State organization. In 1893 he was elected as delegate to the Constitutional Convention of 1894 from the 25th Senate District, then composed of Cortland, Broome, Tioga, Chenango and Delaware counties.

In that convention he was a member of the important committees on powers and duties of the Legislature and on county and town officers. He introduced some important amendments which were adopted and two which were defeated. One of the latter was to make the term of office of Governor and Lieutenant-Governor four years and make them ineligible to election for the next succeeding term. The other was a provision for biennial sessions of the Legislature, which was on the suggestion of Gov. Black, introduced in the Legislature and passed but failed in the Legislature of 1899. He also advocated the amendment as to employment of convicts in penal institutions, forbidding their labor being sold out to contractors, and it was adopted.

In June, 1895, Mr. Mantanye was appointed by Gov. Morton as a member of the Commission of Prisons created by the constitution of 1894, and was made chairman of the Committee on Annual Report in which position he has since been continued. He was also put upon the Committee of Legislation which had charge of the drafting and introduction in the Legislature of the proposed laws known as Chapter 429 of the Laws of 1896, which were enacted and have since been carried into the general revision of the prison laws. By these laws the taking of convicts from without the State by penitentiaries to board was ended, and it is now required that felons be sent to the reformatory and State prisons, and misdemeanants only to the jails and penitentiaries. The labor of convicts is also to be utilized in producing supplies for the public institutions of the State. The system has proved successful and is being adopted in other States.

He is a member of the Tioughnioga Club and of the Legion and was the Colonel of the latter organization during the first two years of its organization.

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