Manx Americans
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| Total population | |
| Self-identified as "Manx" 6,955 (2000)[1] | |
| Regions with significant populations | |
| Ohio, Illinois, Indiana, California, Virginia and Washington, D.C., particularly the cities of Cleveland, Mentor, and Painesville, Ohio and Peoria, Illinois.[2] | |
| Languages | |
| English, Manx | |
| Religion | |
| Christianity | |
| Related ethnic groups | |
| Breton Americans, Cornish Americans, English Americans, Irish Americans, Scottish Americans, Scotch-Irish Americans, Welsh Americans |
Manx Americans (Template:Langx) are Americans of full or partial Manx ancestral origin or Manx people who reside in the United States of America. Areas with significant numbers of people whose ancestry originates from the Isle of Man include Holt County, Missouri, and Cleveland, Ohio.
Settlement in Missouri
William Banks was the first Manx settler in Holt County, Missouri, 1841.[3] He was followed by members of the Callow, Cottier, Garrett, Kennish, and Teare families of Maughold.[3] Thomas Cottier arrived in Holt County in 1847, and through his influence approximately 500 Manx people immigrated to the state from the island.[4]
Settlement in Ohio
The city of Cleveland, Ohio, is said[who?] 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 of the Isle of Man. From 1822 onwards, many families such as the Corlett family became farmers and leased land from the Connecticut Land Company. In 1826, more families such as the Kelleys, Teares, and Kneens 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 and of Manx descent, bound together by their Manx language and customs. Among 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.[5][6]
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
- 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
- Dan Quayle (born 1947), Vice President of the United States from 1989 until 1993
- William Edward Quine (1847–1922), physician, academic, and philanthropist of Illinois
- Christopher Stott (born 1969), space entrepreneur
- Letitia Christian Tyler (1790–1842), first wife of U.S. President John Tyler
- Willard Van Orman Quine (1908–2000), logician and philosopher[7]
- John Ambrose Watterson (1844–1899), Catholic bishop
References
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- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Table 1. First, Second, and Total Responses to the Ancestry Question by Detailed Ancestry Code: 2000". United States Census Bureau. Retrieved May 5, 2013.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Robinson, Vaughan; McCarroll, Danny (January 1990). The Isle of Man: Celebrating a Sense of Place. Liverpool University Press. p. 147. ISBN 978-0-85323-036-6.
- ^ a b Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Ralph, Lois. "Manx Settlement in Holt County Missouri". isle-of-man.com. Retrieved April 19, 2025.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.History of Holt and Atchison counties, Missouri. 1882. p. 314. Retrieved April 19, 2025.
- ^ BRITISH IMMIGRATION – Immigrants from England, the Isle of Man, Scotland, and Wales
- ^ British Buckeyes: The English, Scots, and Welsh in Ohio, 1700-1900 – By William E. Van Vugt
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.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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