Background
She was born on April 10, 1871 in Sparta, Georgia as Jane Hungerford Henry.
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Jane Milbank
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Career
She claimed to have posed for artist John Louisiana Farge as a young woman, and to have been the model for his "Adoration" and "Saint John."
Mistress Milbank was best known for proposing an "Army of Columbians," a military regiment of women, during World War I, complete with a uniform she designed and wore. She held weekly training sessions for a handful of recruits, with wooden guns.
"My only fear is that they will be too savage warriors," she assured doubters.
She also suggested that military training might decrease domestic discord. Her program was formalized by 1915 as the International Order of Military Women, with Milbank presiding.
She was also an author and poet, using the name "J. Hungerford Milbank" to publish a collection of miscellaneous short works titled Florence Gardiner Sings.
Membership
She was a member of the Century Theatre Club for more than twenty years.
