Emma Winner Rogers (, Winner; January 20, 1855 – March 3, 1922) was an American writer and speaker upon economic and social questions, and on the

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. 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

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, 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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and Newark, 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 Henry Wade Rogers, of

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, dean of the

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, then the president of Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, and afterwards dean of

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. 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 Writers from Plainfield, New Jersey The Pennington School alumni University of Michigan alumni American suffragists Wikipedia articles incorporating text from A Woman of the Century National American Woman Suffrage Association activists Suffragists from Connecticut