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Emma Winner Rogers
Was a native of Plainfield, New Jersey.
She is the daughter of Reverend John Ogden Winner and
granddaughter of Reverend Isaac Winner, D.D., both clergymen of
the Methodist Episcopal Church.
For six years she was the corresponding
secretary of the Woman's Home Missionary Society of the Detroit
Conference and later honorary president of the Rock River
Conference, Woman's Home Missionary Society. She is especially
interested in literary work on the lines of social science and
political economy and has been a contributor on these subjects
to various papers and periodicals.
She has written a monograph entitled "Deaconesses
in the Early and Modem Church." Mrs. Rogers is a woman of
marked ability and specially endowed with strong logical
faculties and the power of dispassionate judgment. She is of the
type of American College women who with the advantage of higher
training and higher education, bring their disciplined faculties
to bear with equally good effect upon the amenities of social
life and the philanthropic and economic questions of the day.
She is the wife of Henry Wade Rogers, of
Buffalo, New York, dean of the Law School of the University of
Michigan, and later president of the Northwestern University of
Evanston Illinois. As the wife of the president of a great
University her influence upon the young men and women connected
with it was marked and advantageous. Mrs. Rogers has left an
impress upon the life of her times that is both salutary and
permanent. She is the author of
The Journal of a Country Woman
Women of
America
Source: The Part Taken by Women in
American History, By Mrs. John A. Logan, Published by The Perry-Nalle
Publishing Company, Wilmington, Delaware, 1912.
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