Miller, Emily Huntington (1833–1913)

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Miller, Emily Huntington (1833–1913)

American writer and reformer. Born Emily Clark Huntington, Oct 22, 1833, in Brooklyn, CT; died Nov 2, 1913, in Northfield, MN; dau. of Thomas Huntington (physician and cleric) and Paulina Clark Huntington; m. John Edwin Miller (teacher), Sept 5, 1860; children: 3 sons, 1 daughter.

With other Methodist women, founded Evanston College for Ladies (1871), which later merged with Northwestern University; frequently lectured as part of the Chautauqua movement and served as president of Chautauqua Woman's Club; contributed to and was editor of Chicago youth magazine Little Corporal; served as president of Minneapolis Branch of Methodist Woman's Foreign Missionary Society (1883–89); was dean of women (1891–98), assistant professor of English literature (1891–90), and trustee at Northwestern University; contributed to such magazines as Atlantic Monthly, Scribner's, Cosmopolitan, and the Woman's Christian Temperance Union publication Our Union; books include The Parish of Fair Haven (1876), Kathie's Experience (1886) and The King's Messengers (1891).

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