THE MINNESOTA 
HORTICULTURIST. 
VOL. 28. JULY, 1900. No. 7. 
In Memoriam, 
MISS SARA M. MANNING, 
LAKE CITY, MINN. 
DIED Apri, 7, 1900, AGED 46 YEArs. 
Miss Sara M. Manning, for many years an honorary life member of 
this society, died suddenly at Lake City, Minn., on April 7, 1900, from heart 
failure, in the forty-seventh year of her age. 
Miss Manning was born at Reading, Mass., April 25, 1853, from old 
New England ancestry. 
We are told that William Manning came from England in 1635 and set- 
tled at Cambridge, Mass., where he purchased an cstate. His son William 
inherited the property and became a very prominent citizen. He was a 
merchant, an owner of shipping and of warehouses and: wharves. He was 
for fifteen terms selectman oi his town and also served as a member of the 
general court, or legislature, of Mass. In 1669 he was sent to England as a 
committee to induce Uriah Oakes to come to Cambridge and preside over 
the church. Mr. Oakes afterwards became president of Harvard College. 
For his services to the church William Manning received a grant of land 
from the church at Billerica, Mass. His son Saniuel moved to Billerica 
and in 1696 built a louse there. The house must have been well built, for 
it is still standing and is occupied as the summer home of Warren H. Man- 
ning, the eminent landscape architect and secretary of the American Park 
and Outdoor Art Association. Samuel Manning was a member of the 
legislature, and it is from one of his fourteen children, William, that Miss 
Manning was descended. William Manning served in the French and Indian 
War and received the title of Ensign. His grandson, Jacob, served in the 
Revolutionary War. He was at Concord in 1775, where the unbattled farm- 
ers “fired the shot heard round the world,” and received the title of Lieuten- 
ant. His grandson Solomon Manning purchased a farm at Bedford, N. H., 
in 1823 and married Mary Fletcher. It was here that Miss Manning’s father, 
Joseph Manning, was born and brought up. He married Oct. 25, 18}49, 
Miriam Noyes Hall and engaged in business at Reading, Mass. 
Miss Manning’s maternal grandfather, Ebenezer Hall, was descended 
from John Hall, who was born in England and came to Cambridge in 1652, 
moving to Medford soon afterward. His son Percival was one of the 
original proprietors of. Sutton, a deacon in the church and a member of the 
