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provincial legislature of New Hampshire. Miss Manning’s maternal grand- 
mother was Jane Noyes, who was descended from Rev. James Noyes, one 
of the first settlers of Newbury, Mass., and a son of the Rev. William Noyes 
of Wiltshire, England. The family was eminent in preachers and teachers, 
and it is partly from these that Miss Manning inherited her strong religious 
nature. 
Jacob W. Manning, a brother of Joseph Manning, established in 1854 
the well known Reading (Mass.) Nursery. He is a man of wide reputation 
in horticultural circies, an honorary life member of this society and a mem- 
ber of the American Pomological Society. The catalogues issued by his 
nursery possess a scientific value, unusual in publications of this kind. His 
sons, Warren H. Manning and J. Woodward Manning, have become land- 
scape architects of national reputation. 
A cousin of Joseph Manning was for a long time pastor of the historical 
Old South Meeting House in Boston. 
In 1856 Joseph Manning disposed of his business in Massachusetts and 
moved west, settling first at Pepin, Wis., and afterwards removing to Lake 
City. Miss Manning always made her home with her parents, and she 
passed nearly her whole life in the Lake Pepin valley. It was in 1871 that 
she taught her first and only term of country school. In the fall and winter 
of 1874 and 1875 she attended Carleton College, at Northfield, but her ambi- 
tion led her to undertake to do two years’ work in one, and her health failed. 
She was obliged to give up school work, and her physician advised her to 
lead an out-door life. It was at this time that she began the study of botany 
with the Misses Robinson, teachers in the Lake City high school. Her 
father’s business took him much into the country, and it was her custom to 
go with him on his longer drives, eagerly searching for new plants and 
flowers. 
At the winter meeting of the Minnesota Horticultural Society in 1884 
Miss Manning read a paper on “The Wild Flowers of the Lake Pepin 
Valley,” and there was published with it in the reports of that year a cata- 
logue of 504 species of flowering plants found growing in the Lake Pepin 
Valley. This catalogue represented a large amount of hard work that only 
a botanist can appreciate. It was almost a pioneer list of the Minnesota 
flora. 
In the same year Miss Manning assisted Prof. Warren Upham in the 
preparation of his “Flora of Minnesota,” published in the Twelfth Annual 
Report of the Geological and Natural History Survey of Minnesota. 
At the winter meeting of our society at Owatonna in 1892 Miss Man- 
ning read a paper on “Our Native Shrubs” and at the following summer 
meeting a poem on “Our Beautiful Wild Flowers.” These papers all 
showed that she possessed the spirit of a true artist and that she had a rare 
appreciation of natural beauty. The writer well remembers a drive made 
with her as guests of the Minneapolis Park Board along Hennepin Boulevard 
by Lake Calhoun and down Minnehaha Creek. We had been shown the best 
work that the landscape gardener was capable of, but it was not until we 
came out on the drive along Minnehaha creek and saw nature’s own inim- 
itable planting that Miss Manning gave expression to her enthusiastic 
approval. 
Miss Manning was made an honorary life member of our society in 
1884. She became a member of the American Association for the Advance- 
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