Harvey Dunn was born on his parents' homestead just south of Manchester on March 8, 1884, and devoted his first 17 years to farm work, schooling, and drawing. By age 20 he had studied at South Dakota Agriculture College and the Chicago Art Institute, then went east to learn with artists including Howard Pyle and N. C. Wyeth, who was best man at Dunn's 1908 wedding. Dunn illustrated books and magazines for Scribner's, The Saturday Evening Post, Collier's Weekly, and Harper's, served as one of eight graphic reporters on the front lines of World War I, and painted South Dakota pioneers and landscapes such as "The Prairie is My Garden," often reflecting life in the Manchester area. He spent part of every year visiting his sister Carrie Reiland on the home place and seeing friends and neighbors in town, and before his death in 1952 said that "my search for other horizons has led me around to my first." Grace Pearl Ingalls, known worldwide as Baby Grace in her sister Laura Ingalls Wilder's books, was born on May 23, 1877, in Burr Oak, Iowa, the youngest child of Charles and Caroline Ingalls. After growing up with her family in De Smet, she became a teacher in Manchester, married Nathan "Nate" Dow on October 16, 1901, lived with him on a farmstead about a mile from Manchester near Redstone Creek, died in Manchester on November 10, 1941, and was buried in De Smet Cemetery.