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Show DR. JANE WILKIN MANNING Elected 1913 to SKOLFIELD 1915 Jane Wilkin Manning, was the sixth of ten children born to Henry William and Margaret Galbraith Manning on a farm at Wilson Lake, Weber County. When Jane was three, the family moved to Hooper where her parents ran a general store and post office, owned a farm and was a also skilled raised Her father thoroughbred animals. cabinetmaker. She grew up active in church and civic affairs, a happy, fun-loving of more than ordinary beauty. after her marriage to Soon Jedediah Ballantyne, her husband was called to a mission in the southern states. She taught school and when her marriage failed and she divorced her husband, she set up a dressmaking shop which She also attended Weber Academy, and employed seven seamstresses. girl the After where she 1895. in B.Y.U, graduated attending kindergarten"school in Chicago,she returned to Provo where she was made supervisor and instructor of the kindergarten at Brigham Young Academy and organized classes and trained teachers for kindergarten in Salt Lake and Ogden. In 1898, she married Samuel Reed Skolfield, an electrical engineer and moved to Denver, Colo. Their home became the headquarters for the L.D.S. church there, and she became active in the Federation of Women's Clubs. Following the birth of doctor. tutoring school to her fourth child, she decided to become a her lifes dream. She borrowed money, took private update her credits, and took her oldest girl out of watch the children while she was at school. It to was She graduated from Medical school in 1907 and Dr. Jane, as they all and her family moved to Salt Lake City, called her, where she interned at the L.D.S. hospital. She was the first woman intern. She worked at the hospital for the next 25 years. She did work at the Holy Cross Hospital, public health offices She became instructor and examining insurance companies. physician for nurses classes, established nurses loan funds and a of awards. merit system and some for Professionally, she was an active member of the utah Mental Health Association, American Medical Salt Lake and Association, Utah County Medical Association and for four years served as treasurer She was widely known as a lecturer to of the Utah County Assoc. conventions, schools and churches. 52 |
