Emily Miller

Miller, Emily Clark (née Huntington). b. Brooklyn, Connecticut, 22 October 1833; d. Northfield, Minnesota, 2 November 1913. She was the daughter of a Methodist minister, Thomas Huntington. She was educated at Oberlin College, Ohio. She married an academic, Professor John E. Miller, of Greentown, Ohio. She became Dean of Women Students at Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, and the first woman to receive an honorary degree from that school. From 1867 to1875 she co-edited The Little Corporal, published in Chicago from 1865 to 1875, and sub-titled ‘an original magazine for boys and girls, and for older people who have young hearts’, in which several of her hymns appeared. She was the...