(Mike)(fl. 1930s & 1940s), traders. Born at Konisberg (later renamed Kaliningrad), near the Baltic Sea. They were two Jewish brothers who lived in Maxville and travelled the roads of rural GC and Stormont County with horse and wagon buying hens, horse hair and scrap iron. They lived in a dilapidated shack on Main Street North in Maxville. Remembered by the older people today as picturesque characters of a vanished age, they were short, chunky men, who closely resembled each other, but were of different dispositions, Billy being dour and withdrawn, and Mike genial and outgoing. “In the fall of the year [when farmers were selling poultry], one could meet one of them on the road in the evenings, with a dim lantern outlining the slow-moving rig.” Angus MacRae, the well-known trapper of Maxville, preserved an anecdote about a resourceful young farmhand who, needing cash and being perhaps disenchanted with the Maxville-area shoppers, trimmed “the long hair from the tails and manes of horses tied in some of the horse sheds behind the grocery stores” of that village, and sold the hair to one of the Manns. A perceptive observer of the GC scene, the late Lauchlin MacInnes (b. near Greenfield, GC, 10 June 1913-d. Mississauga, Ont., 14 Aug. 2002), who died too late to have his own life in the present dictionary, has left some warm reflections on his acquaintance with the brothers. Michael, who appears to have been the second to die of the brothers, was married, and had a home also in Montreal.

Maxville (1991) , 307, 318 (Gordon Winter, QF-1) * Winter GN 14 Sept. 1994 (QF-2) * Lauchlin MacInnes, “Michael Mann: Product of an Era,” The Maxville Centennial (Oct. 1991) * private information