# Manx Americans
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{{short description|Americans of Manx birth or descent}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=February 2023}}
{{Use American English|date=February 2023}}
{{Infobox ethnic group
|group = Manx Americans
|native_name = {{native name|gv|Americanyn Manninagh}}
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|population = Self-identified as "Manx"
'''6,955''' ([2000](/source/2000_United_States_census))[{{cite web |url=https://www.census.gov/population/socdemo/ancestry/ancestry_q_by_DAC_2000.xls |title = Table 1. First, Second, and Total Responses to the Ancestry Question by Detailed Ancestry Code: 2000 |access-date=2013-05-05 |publisher = United States Census Bureau}}]
|popplace = [Ohio](/source/Ohio), [Illinois](/source/Illinois), [Indiana](/source/Indiana), [California](/source/California), [Virginia](/source/Virginia) and [Washington, D.C.](/source/Washington%2C_D.C.),
particularly the cities of [Cleveland](/source/Cleveland%2C_Ohio), [Mentor](/source/Mentor%2C_Ohio), and [Painesville](/source/Painesville%2C_Ohio), Ohio and [Peoria, Illinois](/source/Peoria%2C_Illinois).[{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OUAjS96SVgoC&dq=manx+americans+concentrated+in+california+ohio&pg=PA147|title=The Isle of Man: Celebrating a Sense of Place|page=147|isbn=978-0-85323-036-6 |last1=Robinson |first1=Vaughan |last2=McCarroll |first2=Danny |date=January 1990 |publisher=Liverpool University Press }}]
|langs = [English](/source/American_English), [Manx](/source/Manx_language)
|rels = [Christianity](/source/Christianity)
|related = [Breton Americans](/source/Breton_Americans), [Cornish Americans](/source/Cornish_Americans), [English Americans](/source/English_Americans), [Irish Americans](/source/Irish_Americans), [Scottish Americans](/source/Scottish_Americans), [Scotch-Irish Americans](/source/Scotch-Irish_Americans), [Welsh Americans](/source/Welsh_Americans)}}
'''Manx Americans''' ({{langx|gv|Americanyn Manninagh}}) are [Americans](/source/Americans) of full or partial [Manx](/source/Manx_people) [ancestral origin](/source/ancestry) or Manx people who reside in the [United States of America](/source/United_States_of_America). Areas with significant numbers of people whose ancestry originates from the [Isle of Man](/source/Isle_of_Man) include Holt County, Missouri, and Cleveland, Ohio.
==Settlement in Missouri==
William Banks was the first Manx settler in [Holt County, Missouri](/source/Holt_County%2C_Missouri), 1841.[{{cite web |url= https://www.isle-of-man.com/manxnotebook/famhist/genealgy/holt.htm |title= Manx Settlement in Holt County Missouri |author= Ralph, Lois |publisher= isle-of-man.com |access-date= April 19, 2025}}] He was followed by members of the [Callow](/source/Callow_(surname)), [Cottier](/source/Cottier_(surname)), [Garrett](/source/Garrett_(name)), Kennish, and [Teare](/source/Teare) families of [Maughold](/source/Maughold_(parish)).[ Thomas Cottier arrived in Holt County in 1847, and through his influence approximately 500 Manx people immigrated to the state from the island.][{{cite book |url= https://mdh.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/mocohist/id/31467/ |title= History of Holt and Atchison counties, Missouri |year= 1882 |page= 314 |access-date= April 19, 2025}}]
==Settlement in Ohio==
The city of [Cleveland](/source/Cleveland%2C_Ohio), Ohio, is said{{who|date=April 2025}} to have the highest concentration of Americans of Manx descent in the United States. They predominantly descend from the village of [Andreas](/source/Andreas%2C_Isle_of_Man) on the northern side of the Isle of Man. From 1822 onwards, many families such as the [Corlett](/source/Corlett) family became farmers and leased land from the [Connecticut Land Company](/source/Connecticut_Land_Company). In 1826, more families such as the [Kelley](/source/Kelley_(name))s, Teares, and [Kneen](/source/Kneen)s established themselves in [Newburgh](/source/Newburgh%2C_Ohio), 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](/source/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.[[https://case.edu/ech/articles/b/british-immigration BRITISH IMMIGRATION] – Immigrants from England, the Isle of Man, Scotland, and Wales][[https://books.google.com/books?id=XGhLJ2AacqAC&dq=st+manx+school+ohio&pg=PA88 British Buckeyes: The English, Scots, and Welsh in Ohio, 1700-1900] – By William E. Van Vugt]
==Notable people==
{{Americans}}
* [Dan Auerbach](/source/Dan_Auerbach) (born 1979), singer and guitarist of the [Black Keys](/source/Black_Keys)
* [John Thomas Caine](/source/John_Thomas_Caine) (1829–1911), politician in the [state](/source/U.S._state) of [Utah](/source/Utah)
* [Cannon family](/source/Cannon_family), prominent political family in Utah
* [John Cubbins](/source/John_Cubbins) (1827–1894), businessman and politician in [Tennessee](/source/Tennessee)
* [William Garrett](/source/William_Garrett_(Medal_of_Honor)) (1842–1916), fought in the [American Civil War](/source/American_Civil_War)
* [William Kennish](/source/William_Kennish) (1799–1862), scientist and explorer
* [Elizabeth Holloway Marston](/source/Elizabeth_Holloway_Marston) (1893–1993), psychologist
* [Jeremiah McGuire](/source/Jeremiah_McGuire) (1823–1889), politician and lawyer in [New York](/source/New_York_(state))
* [Dan Quayle](/source/Dan_Quayle) (born 1947), [Vice President of the United States](/source/Vice_President_of_the_United_States) from 1989 until 1993
* [William Edward Quine](/source/William_Edward_Quine) (1847–1922), physician, academic, and philanthropist of Illinois
* [Christopher Stott](/source/Christopher_Stott) (born 1969), space entrepreneur
* [Letitia Christian Tyler](/source/Letitia_Christian_Tyler) (1790–1842), first wife of U.S. President [John Tyler](/source/John_Tyler)
* [Willard Van Orman Quine](/source/Willard_Van_Orman_Quine) (1908–2000), logician and philosopher[{{cite magazine |last=MacFarlane |first=Alistair |date=2013 |title=W.V.O. Quine (1908-2000)|url=https://philosophynow.org/issues/95/WVO_Quine_1908-2000 |magazine=Philosophy Now |quote=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. |access-date=January 22, 2024}}]
* [John Ambrose Watterson](/source/John_Ambrose_Watterson) (1844–1899), Catholic bishop
== References ==
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Category:Manx diaspora in the United States
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