Background
Slingerland, Nellie Bingham Van was born on November 6, 1850 in Ortonville, Oakland Company, Michigan, United States. Daughter of Strom and Charlotta Greene Bingham Van Slingerland.
publishing executive women"s rights advocate
Slingerland, Nellie Bingham Van was born on November 6, 1850 in Ortonville, Oakland Company, Michigan, United States. Daughter of Strom and Charlotta Greene Bingham Van Slingerland.
Descended on mother’s side from King Henry I of France and Queen Catherine Parr of England. Education public and pbt. schools and under tutelage.
William B. Mead, of Boston. William H. Lynn, of Minneapolis. Formerly teacher, artist in oils and water colors.
Author of poetry and fiction and writer on patriotic and other subjects.
Speculated successfully on own account in real estate, plotting tracts of land, building houses and apts. Was first woman publisher in the United States, under title of the Guarantee Public Company, New New York
Editor public Joan of Arc Magazine, Betterment League Magazine Active in social, suffrage and philanthropic work. Founder and president of Joan of Arc Woman Suffrage League, Daughters of Michigan in New New York
Founder Betterment League.
Betterment Club House, Rising Sun Woman Suffrage League, Our Star League, Invincible League, Empire State League. Company-founder League for Civic Service of Women, Lower Rent and Taxes Association, Congress of States Association. Member Daughters of American Revolution, Woman’s National Theatre Association, The Theatre Club, New York County Woman’s Suffrage Association, Incorporated., State Federation Women's Clubs, et cetera
Wrote: Cupid, the Devil’s Stoker.
A Romance of Heredity. Patriotic Poesy: Love and Politics.
A Social Romance. Passion and Pique Poesy.
A Fight for a Title; Toshimytsu Mayeda. Also plays, Cupid, the Devil’s Stoker, et cetera
Home: 162 Madison Avenue, New New New York
Member Daughters of American Revolution, Woman’s National Theatre Association, The Theatre.
Married 3 times: John Jay Crowley, of Clarkston, Michigan.