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Emily Huntington Miller was the daughter of Dr. Thomas and Paulina (Clark) Huntington. She was born on October 22, 1833, in Brooklyn, Connecticut. Her father, clergyman, and physician, and a graduate of Middlebury College was the son of Jedediah Huntington.
Emily Huntington was graduated from Oberlin College, Ohio, with the degree of A. B. in 1857.
After her marriage, Miller lived in Granville, Illinois, where her husband was principal of an academy, then in Plainfield, Illinois, where he was a professor of Latin and Greek in Northwestern College, then in Akron, Chicago, and Evanston. Her husband was prominent in Sunday-school and Y. M. C. A. activities, in which Mrs. Miller helped him. She also shared his work in connection with a juvenile magazine, the Little Corporal, which he published in cooperation with Alfred L. Sewell, and in 1871, she became its editor. In April 1872, the Little Corporal absorbed Work and Play and in 1875, it was merged into St. Nicholas. She had begun to write while she was still in school and her stories and verse were printed in religious papers and magazines. Throughout her life, she continued to write, even when domestic affairs absorbed her and during the years when she was connected with Northwestern University. In 1871, Mrs. Miller was one of a group which secured a charter for the Evanston College for Ladies, at Evanston, Ill. For the two years of its existence as a separate institution, she was a trustee and corresponding secretary. In 1873, the college, of which Frances Willard was president, was united with Northwestern University, and Mrs. Miller was a trustee of the University from 1873 to 1885. Friction arose over the question of separate control of the social life of the women students and Frances Willard resigned. Mrs. Miller was one of a committee to decide whether the resignation should be accepted. She was dean of women and assistant professor of English literature from 1891 to 1898. At that time the position of dean of women was not an administrative office. It involved little more than being at the head of a hall and implied no very important advisory contact with students. The years of her deanship were harmonious. Her later years were passed in St. Paul, Minnesota, and at her summer home in Englewood, New Jersey. She died on November 2, 1913, at the home of her brother at Northfield, Minnesota.
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Emily Clark always believed that women should be considered as part of the general student body, without special treatment and rules on account of sex. Many university occasions were celebrated by her in poetry.
She was always actively interested in temperance, missionary, and Sunday-school work and in the Chautauqua movement.
Miller's stories are of the type known as Sunday-school stories. They are clearly and simply written, with natural conversation, some humor, bits of good description, and inevitable moral lessons. Her verse is usually spiritual in thought, not lacking in imagination, conventional in form, but possessing occasional lyrical values.
In September 1860, Emily was married to John Edwin Miller, a teacher, of Greentown, Ohio. She became the mother of four children, a daughter who died in infancy and three sons.
