Emily Huntington Miller
Miller was also active in the temperance movement. She joined the Chautauqua Woman’s Club and was a frequently lecturer. She later held the position of president for four years. Miller was part of a group of women that formed The Women’s Christian Temperance Union at a Chautauqua Woman’s Club meeting in 1874. She frequently lectured for the W.C.T.U. and wrote a regular column for the organization’s newspaper.
After Little Corporal was absorbed by another magazine in 1875, Emily Huntington Miller and her husband left their positions. In 1878, they moved to Minnesota. From 1883 to 1889, Miller was president of the Methodist Woman’s Foreign Missionary Society branch in Minneapolis. She returned to Northwestern University in 1891, where she became the dean of women and an assistant professor of English. She was later appointed as the principal of the Women’s Department at that university. Miller retired in 1898, but continued to write stories and articles for many magazines. She wrote twenty novels, volumes of poetry, and children’s stories in her lifetime.
Sources:
Student File (Emily Huntington Miller), Alumni & Development Records, O.C.A.