Manly Miles

In 1837 his family moved to Flint, Michigan, where he worked on the farm, to his common school education adding reading and study during spare moments.

from Rush Medical College, Chicago, and practiced in Flint until 1859, when he was appointed by Governor Moses Wisner assistant state geologist in the department of zoology.

In 1860 he was appointed professor of animal physiology and zoology in the Michigan State Agricultural College at Lansing.

Miles an authority among both professors and students, on birds, beasts, reptiles, stones of the fields and insects of the air."

To his death he retained his habits of investigation and study, though his great deafness rendered his public work difficult.