The Marietta Journal
September 12, 1919

Throngs of old friends attended the funeral of the Rev. V. E. Manget at the City Cemetery on Monday afternoon.

The services had been held at the Methodist Church in Atlanta, six distinguished ministers officiating, and such eulogies are seldom heard.

Dr. J. H. Patton, the only Marietta minister who had been a personal friend of Professor Manget, gave a short talk at the grave. The sum and substance of his remarks was "this was the best man I have ever known."

The floral offerings were really wonderful. Besides an exquisite blanket of white rose-buds, given by his devoted children, which covered the grave, there were such numbers of handsome pieces that the entire lot was filled with them.

No man who ever lived in Marietta had more respect, admiration and love than Professor Manget, and though he left here more than twenty years ago, he was still affectionately regarded as a Marietta citizen.

The Atlanta Constitution of September 8th says:

Professor Victor E. Manget, a beloved minister of the gospel, an educator of many years distinguished service in Georgia and a highly honored citizen of Atlanta, died Sunday morning at 5:30 o'clock, at the home of Dr. J. D. Manget, 697 North Boulevard. He had been ill for many weeks and was unconscious when he died. He was 82 years old.

Professor Manget was the son of French parents, and was born in 1837, shortly after his mother and father arrived in America. He entered upon his educational career as a very young man, taking a place as teacher in the old Georgia Military Academy of Marietta. This was before the Civil War.

When the War Between the States came on, Professor Manget assumed the captaincy of a company formed by the older cadets at the military academy and fought through two years, 1863-64 in the southern army. The only surviving members of that company are A. J. Shroplin, of Atlanta, W. E. Scarborough of Griffin, and R. R. Rogers of Texas.

After the surrender Professor Manget resumed his educational work, and in the early days of the reconstruction, he was made president of LaVert Female College, at Talboton, Ga., where he served from 1869 to 1875. In 1876 he took up the presidency of the Sam Bailey Institute at Griffin, Ga., and served there for two years. Later he was made head of the Marietta Female College, and when that institution was destroyed by fire, he was made president of the Harwood Seminary in that city. He also headed a large private school in Marietta, and although his health was not robust he taught for several years in the public schools, having to give up the work in 1894 because of physical infirmity.

Professor Manget has made his home with his son, Dr. J. D. Manget, on South Boulevard, since his return from Florida several months ago. He is survived by eight devoted children: Dr. Fred Manget, a medical missionary for the Methodist church for ten years in China, and assigned with the rank of Major to Siberia during the war period, where he now has charge of American Red Cross work; Mrs. O. T. Logan, for 23 years a Presbyterian missionary in China; Mrs. J. Scott Davis of Cave Springs, Ga., Miss Sallie Manget of Dunedin, Fla., Dan T. and V. E. Manget, Jr. of Newnan; John A. Manget, of Atlanta.