Emma Winner Rogers (, Winner; January 20, 1855 – March 3, 1922) was an American writer and speaker upon economic and social questions, and on the Arts and Crafts movement. She favored suffrage, and served as an officer of the

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. Among her published works can be counted ''Deaconesses in the early church. Deaconesses in the modern church.'' (1891), ''The social failure of the city '' (1898), ''The Journal of a Country Woman'' (1912), and ''Why not complete the enfranchisement of women'' (1912).

Biography

Emma Ferdon Winner was born in Plainfield, New Jersey, January 20, 1855. She was the daughter of Rev. John Ogden Winner and Sarah J. (Taylor) Winner. Her father and grandfather, Rev. Isaac Winner, D. D., were clergymen of the

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and natives of

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. 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

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. She received her early education in New Jersey at private schools in

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, before graduating from Pennington Seminary in Pennington. She earned a Litt. B. in 1891 from the

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. For six years, she was the corresponding secretary of the Woman's Home Missionary Society of

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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

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(1893), as the chair of the committee on municipal order, of the World's Congress Auxiliary. She served as president of the

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Settlement Association (1894-1900), and of the University Art Guild,

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and

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(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). 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

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entitled "Deaconesses in Early and Modern Church". In 1876, she married

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, of

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, dean of

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, afterwards dean of the University of Michigan Law School, and later the president of Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois. Rogers favored suffrage. In 1920, she served as treasurer of the National American Woman Suffrage Association. Rogers died in New York City, March 3, 1922.

Selected works

Books

* ''Deaconesses in the early church. Deaconesses in the modern church.'' 1891 * ''The social failure of the city '', 1898 * ''The Journal of a Country Woman'', 1912 * ''Why not complete the enfranchisement of women'', 1912

Articles

* "Wanted—the woman's land army", 1918

References

Attribution

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External links

* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Rogers, Emma Winner 1855 births 1922 deaths 19th-century American writers 20th-century American writers 19th-century American women writers 20th-century American women writers People from Plainfield, New Jersey The Pennington School alumni University of Michigan alumni Writers from New Jersey American suffragists Wikipedia articles incorporating text from A Woman of the Century