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(c) 2019 Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston
Robert Manning
(c) 2019 Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston
(c) 2019 Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston

Robert Manning

Salem, 1827 - 1902
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BiographyFollowing Manning's death in 1842, his son, Robert Jr. continued his work, winning medals for his pear and apple varieties. He became librarian and secretary of the Massachusetts Horticultural Society and wrote many books on horticulture. http://www.noblenet.org/salem/wiki/index.php/Manning,_Robert accessed 3/24/20
Life dates come from the Finding Aid for the Manning Family Papers at the Peabody Essex Museum, http://phillipslibrarycollections.pem.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15928coll1/id/4211
accessed 3/24/2020

See Cyclopedia of American Agriculture: Farm and community, edited by Liberty Hyde Bailey, for a biograpy of Manning
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Last Updated8/7/24