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Robert Manchester II

 
Robert Asa Manchester II was born in Canfield, Ohio, USA, and was a lifelong resident there. In the summers, he worked in his family's hardware business. After high school, he studied law at the University of Michigan, earning a bachelor of arts, bachelor of law, and a doctor of law degree. After graduation he joined the firm of Harrington, Huxley, and Smith, in Youngstown, a few miles from Canfield. At age 25 he was elected mayor of Canfield, the youngest man in the state to fill such an office.

Bob was a member of the American Bar Association, a number of state bar associations, and the Ohio Judicature Society.

The Manchester family came to the US from England in the 17th century and settled in the New Haven settlement of New England, in the region which is now the state of Connecticut. As a member of one of the country's oldest families, Bob was an appropriate choice as Rotary's president for the year of the US bicentennial.

Bob was active in scouting from the time it was introduced to the state of Ohio and, at the 1977 Rotary convention in San Francisco, was designated a double Eagle Scout by the Boy Scouts of America.

He served on the Ohio State Board of Education, the Youngstown Chamber of Commerce, and the US Chamber of Commerce, and was the founder and president of the National Association of State Boards of Education. He was named "Man the Year" by both the Order of Protestant Men, where he was an elder in the church, and the Youngstown Area Chamber of Commerce.

Bob became a member of the Rotary Club of Youngstown in 1938 and served the club, district, and Rotary International in many capacities. He and his wife, Mary, who was almost as well-known to the Rotary world as Bob, entertained Rotarians from around the world at their Canfield home, which was built of handmade bricks and stones from the school Bob attended as a boy and which Mary once taught.
 
Contributed by Mary Womble, Youngstown president 09/10. Posted 10 January by Jack Selway
 
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