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Mary Dorr
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Mary Dorr Manny Tinker (August 29, 1829 - September 4, 1901) operated the Manny Reaper Co. and other Rockford properties after her husband’s (John Henry Manny) death. Mary Manny lived in the Manny Mansion, an Italianate brick structure that would eventually become the Burpee Museum of Natural History. In 1856, 19-year-old Robert Tinker arrived in Rockford and began working for the Manny Reaper Works. Tinker’s relationship with Mary, who was eight years older, became very close and in 1870, the two married and embarked on a honeymoon to Hawaii, where Tinker had been born. After returning to Rockford, Robert and Mary Tinker began work on an elaborate 20-room Swiss cottage, known as the Tinker Swiss Cottage. This building project continued into the 1880s with the addition of a conservatory. The cottage was connected to the grounds of the Manny Mansion by a suspension bridge over nearby Kent Creek. It was here where Mary Dorr Manny Tinker lived until her death in 1901. |
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