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Americans of Manx birth or descent
Ethnic group
Manx Americans
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Self-identified as "Manx"
6,955
(
2000
)
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Ohio
,
Illinois
,
Indiana
,
Wisconsin
,
Minnesota
,
California
and
Washington, D.C.
Particularly in the cities of
Cleveland
,
Mentor
,
Painesville
,
Peoria
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English
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Manx
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Christianity
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Breton Americans
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Cornish Americans
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English Americans
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Irish Americans
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Scottish Americans
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Scotch-Irish Americans
,
Welsh Americans
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Manx Americans
are
Americans
of full or partial
Manx
ancestral origin
or Manx people who reside in the
United States of America
.
Settlement in Ohio
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The city of
Cleveland
,
Ohio
is said to have the highest concentration of Americans of Manx descent in the United States. They predominantly descend from the village of
Andreas
on the northern side in the Isle of Man. From 1822 onwards, many families such as the
Corlett
family, becoming farmers and easing land by the
Connecticut Land Company
. In 1826 more families such as the
Kelley
’s,
Teare
’s, and
Kneen
’s established themselves in
Newburgh
which would encourage more Manx settlement into the area. Cleveland was a town of only six hundred people. A population grew to around 3000 of both Manx-born or of Manx descent bound together by their
Manx language
and customs. Amongst the immigrants was William Corlett who donated land for the community's log schoolhouse so Manx children would be educated in their native Manx and English languages.
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Notable people
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Dan Auerbach
(born 1979), singer and guitarist of the
Black Keys
John Thomas Caine
(1829-1911), politician in the
state
of
Utah
Cannon family
, prominent political family in Utah (see page for individual members)
William Christian
(1743-1786), Virginia soldier and frontiersman
Leslie Cockburn
(born 1952), writer and filmmaker
John Cubbins
(1827-1894), businessman and politician in
Tennessee
William Garrett
(1842-1916), fought in the
American Civil War
William Kennish
(1799-1862), scientist and explorer
Elizabeth Holloway Marston
(1893-1993), psychologist
Jeremiah McGuire
(1823-1889), politician and lawyer in
New York
Ben Quayle
(born 1976), former U.S. Congressman and son of Dan Quayle
Dan Quayle
(born 1947),
Vice President of the United States
from 1989 until 1993
James C. Quayle
(1921-2000), businessman and father of Dan Quayle
William Edward Quine
(1847-1922)
Christopher Stott
(born 1969), space entrepreneur
Kevin Teare
(born 1951), artist
Letitia Christian Tyler
(1790-1842), first wife of U.S. President
John Tyler
Willard Van Orman Quine
? logician and philosopher
[4]
John Ambrose Watterson
(1844-1899), Catholic bishop
References
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"Table 1. First, Second, and Total Responses to the Ancestry Question by Detailed Ancestry Code: 2000"
. U.S. Census Bureau
. Retrieved
May 5,
2013
.
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BRITISH IMMIGRATION
- Immigrants from England, the Isle of Man, Scotland, and Wales
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British Buckeyes: The English, Scots, and Welsh in Ohio, 1700-1900
- By William E. Van Vugt
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MacFarlane, Alistair (2013).
"W.V.O. Quine (1908-2000)"
.
Philosophy Now
. Retrieved
January 22,
2024
.
His paternal grandfather, Robert Quine, grew up in a thatched cottage on the Isle of Man, between England and Ireland. Like many Manxmen, he became a merchant seaman. Leaving ship in New York, Robert made his way to Ohio, where there was a large Manx colony in Cleveland, and found work as a machinist in Akron.
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