Austin Mann

Austin Shuey Mann (January 14, 1847 – September 19, 1912) was a lawyer, orange grove owner, and politician who served in the Florida Senate and Florida House of Representatives. He represented Hernando County.[1]

Mann was born in Ohio.[2] He lived in the area of Crystal River, Florida and had orange groves.

He served in the Florida Senate from 1883 until 1887.[3] He was in the Florida House in 1891. [1] Mannfield, Florida, the county seat until Inverness was chosen to replace it, was named for him. It is now a ghost town in the Withlacoochee State Forest.[4]

His daughter, May Mann, married William Sherman Jennings, who served as Governor of Florida.[5][4][6]

References
  1. "Photo" (PDF). floridamemory.com. Retrieved August 27, 2020.
  2. "A Guide to the Austin Shuey Mann Papers". web.uflib.ufl.edu.
  3. "Austin Mann - Citrus County Notable". fl-genweb.org.
  4. "The Ghost Town of Mannfield | Hernando Sun". www.hernandosun.com.
  5. "In her own words" (PDF). floridamemory.com. Retrieved August 27, 2020.
  6. Vance, Linda D. (1976). "May Mann Jennings and Royal Palm State Park". The Florida Historical Quarterly. 55 (1): 1–17. JSTOR 30071307.
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