Biography

09/21/1908 - 05/14/1991

Clarence F. Manbeck (R48) Lebanon (part), Berks (part), Lancaster (part)

Early Life:

Clarence F. Manbeck (R48) born September 21, 1908, Bethel Township, Lebanon County) son of Webster and Salome (Yeich) Manbeck. Attended public schools; founder, C.F. Manbeck Poultry Inc.; farmer. Married Eve Pyse. Two daughters, Alletta M. Schadler, Fredericksburg, and Barbara M. Bauer, Shelton, Connecticut. Died on May 14, 1991 Fredericksburg, Lebanon County; interred, Altalaha Lutheran Cemetery, Rehrersburg, Berks County, Pennsylvania.

Early Career:

Founded Farmers Pride in 1939, selling chickens in Ohio and Pennsylvania. Farmers Pride, Inc., C. F. Manbeck, Incorporated, and Bell & Evans, Incorporated are merged into Farmers Pride, Incorporated in 1986.

School director, public schools in North Lebanon area; director, First National Bank of Fredericksburg; director; Lebanon Mutual Insurance Company. Director of the Chamber of Commerce and Community Chest (United Way); member of the executive committee of the Lebanon County Republican Committee.

Professional titles; business ownership; board memberships; local government; club memberships:

Mount Olivet Lodge 704, Free and Accepted Masons; Lancaster County Shrine Club; Zembo Temple; Tall Cedars of Lebanon; Lebanon County Shrine Club; Quittie Woods Incorporated; Lions Club of Fredericksburg; and the Izaak Walton League; Fredericksburg Fire Company; Lebanon County Firemans Association; Mt. Zion Fire Company; Bethel Fire Company; Lebanon Country Club; Central Pennsylvania Chapter of the Sports Hall of Fame; Lebanon County Farmers Association; Loyal Order of Moose Lodge 228, Lebanon; and the Fredericksburg Community Association: Strausstown Rod & Gun Club; Frystown Fire Company; Quentin Riding Club; Wyomissing Republican Club; Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks Lodge 731, Lebanon; and the Aviation Council of Pennsylvania.

Pennsylvania Politics:

Pennsylvania House of Representatives 1961, 1963 and 1965 terms; not a candidate for reelection to the House (1966)

Pennsylvania State Senate, January 7, 1969 – November 30, 1982. Chairman: transportation, member, appropriations, environmental resources, rules and executive nominations and state government committees.

Senate Bill 1200 Act 140, 1997-1998, designated a bridge in Bethel Township, Lebanon County as the Senator Clarence F. Manbeck Bridge

Pa. House of Representatives Biography:

https://www.legis.state.pa.us/cfdocs/legis/BiosHistory/MemBio.cfm?ID=1450&body=H          

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