Emma Winner Rogers

Emma Winner Rogers, "A Woman of the Century"

Emma Winner Rogers (January 20, 1855 – March 3, 1922) was an American writer and speaker upon economic and social questions, and on the arts and crafts movement.^[1] She favored suffrage, and served as an officer of the National American Woman Suffrage Association.

Biography[]

Emma Ferdon Winner was born in Plainfield, New Jersey, January 20, 1855.^[2] She was the daughter of Rev. John Ogden Winner and Sarah J. (Taylor) Winner. ^[1] Her father and grandfather, Rev. Isaac Winner, D. D., were clergymen of the Methodist Episcopal Church and natives of New Jersey. On the maternal side, she was the granddaughter and great-granddaughter of Moses Taylor, and Moses Taylor, second, during their lives successful business men of New York City.^[3]

She received her early education in New Jersey at private schools in Jersey City and Newark, before graduating from Pennington Seminary in Pennington. She earned a Litt. B. in 1891 from the University of Michigan.^[3][1]

For six years, she was the corresponding secretary of the Woman's Home Missionary Society of Detroit Conference, and later, the honorary president of the Rock River Conference Woman's Home Missionary Society. She was connected with the woman's work of the World's Columbian Exposition (1893), as the chair of the committee on municipal order, of the World's Congress Auxiliary. She served as president of the Northwestern University Settlement Association (1894-1900), and of the University Art Guild, Chicago and Evanston (1895-1900). She was a member of Fortnightly of Chicago (president, 1898-1900); American Economic Association; the Collegiate Alumnae Association; and the Women's University Club (New York City).^[3][1]

Rogers was specially interested in literary work in the line of social science and political economy, and was a contributor on those subjects to various papers and periodicals. She wrote a monograph entitled "Deaconesses in Early and Modern Church".^[3]

In 1876,^[4] she married Henry Wade Rogers, of Buffalo, New York, dean of Yale Law School,^[1] afterwards dean of the University of Michigan Law School, and later the president of Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois.^[3]

Rogers favored suffrage. In 1920, she served as treasurer of the National American Woman Suffrage Association.^[5]

Rogers died in New York City, March 3, 1922.^[6]

Selected works[]

Journal of a Country Woman, 1912

• Deaconesses in the early church. Deaconesses in the modern church. 1891^[7]
• The journal of a country woman, 1912
• "Wanted—the woman's land army", 1918^[8]

References[]

Attribution[]

• This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Illinois State Library (1912). Dictionary Catalogue of the Illinois State Library: (public Documents Excepted) (Public domain ed.). Danville, Illinois: Illinois Print. Company.
• This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Leslie Woman Suffrage Commission (1919). The Woman Citizen. 4 (Public domain ed.). New York City: Leslie Woman Suffrage Commission.
• This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Marquis (ed.), Albert Nelson (1909). Who's who in New England. 1 (Public domain ed.). Chicago: A. N. Marquis & Co.CS1 maint: extra text: authors list (link)
• This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Sherwood (ed.), Elizabeth J.; Painter (ed.), Estella E. (1919). Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature. 4 (Public domain ed.). New York City: H. W. Wilson Company.CS1 maint: extra text: authors list (link)
• This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Willard, Frances Elizabeth; Livermore, Mary Ashton Rice (1893). A Woman of the Century: Fourteen Hundred-seventy Biographical Sketches Accompanied by Portraits of Leading American Women in All Walks of Life (Public domain ed.). Charles Wells Moulton.

External links[]

• Works related to Woman of the Century/Emma Winner Rogers at Wikisource
• Works by or about Emma Winner Rogers at Internet Archive