The National cyclopædia of American biography : being the history of the United States as illustrated in the lives of the founders, builders, and defenders of the republic, and of the men and women who are doing the work and moulding the thought of the present time, edited by distinguished biographers, selected from each state, revised and approved by the most eminent historians, scholars, and statesmen of the day . lecturer of the college from which she wasgraduated, and was made a member of the newlyfounded society of Sorosis. In New York Dr. Manning met, and subsequently married, George Fis
The National cyclopædia of American biography : being the history of the United States as illustrated in the lives of the founders, builders, and defenders of the republic, and of the men and women who are doing the work and moulding the thought of the present time, edited by distinguished biographers, selected from each state, revised and approved by the most eminent historians, scholars, and statesmen of the day . lecturer of the college from which she wasgraduated, and was made a member of the newlyfounded society of Sorosis. In New York Dr. Manning met, and subsequently married, George FiskComfort, the distinguished scholar, linguist, and artcritic, the founder and dean of the College of finearts of the Syracuse university. In 1872 they re-moved to Syracuse, N. Y., and for several yearsthereafter, while her children were young. Dr. Com-fort relinquished the practice of medicme. Uponresuming practice she confined her work to gynecol-ogy and lias achieved a marked succes and high dis-tinction in that field. In 1874 she wrote WomansEducation and Womans Health, in reply to Clarkes Sex in Education. She has trav-eled extensively abroad, visiting the various impor-tant hospitals and medical institutions. She if awoman of broad culture, a fine musician, a capti^at-ing lecturer, a brilliant conversationalist, and hasa rare combination of resolute boldness and of kindly delicacy of OF AMEBICAJ!)^ BIOGRAPHY. 163 VK? //;<jf<-i
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