Emma Winner Rogers
"A Woman of the Century"
Born	Emma Ferdon Winner January 20, 1855 Plainfield, New Jersey, U.S.
Died	March 3, 1922 (aged 67) New York City,New York, U.S.
Occupation	writer, speaker, suffragist
Alma mater	University of Michigan (LittB)
Subject	economy; social issues;Arts and Crafts movement
Notable works	The Journal of a Country Woman (1912)
Spouse	Henry Wade Rogers ​ (m. 1876)​

Emma Winner Rogers (née,Winner; January 20, 1855 – March 3, 1922) was an American writer and speaker upon economic and social questions, and on theArts and Crafts movement.^[1] She favored suffrage, and served as an officer of theNational American Woman Suffrage Association. Among her published works can be countedDeaconesses in the early church. Deaconesses in the modern church. (1891),^[2]The social failure of the city (1898),The Journal of a Country Woman (1912), andWhy not complete the enfranchisement of women (1912).

Emma Ferdon Winner was born inPlainfield, New Jersey, January 20, 1855.^[3] She was the daughter of Rev. John Ogden Winner and Sarah J. (Taylor) Winner.^[1] Her father and grandfather, Rev. Isaac Winner, D. D., were clergymen of theMethodist Episcopal Church and natives ofNew Jersey. On the maternal side, she was the granddaughter and great-granddaughter of Moses Taylor, and Moses Taylor, second, during their lives successful business men ofNew York City.^[4]

She received her early education in New Jersey at private schools inJersey City andNewark, before graduating fromPennington Seminary inPennington. She earned a Litt. B. in 1891 from theUniversity of Michigan.^[4][1]

For six years, she was the corresponding secretary of the Woman's Home Missionary Society ofDetroit 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 theWorld's Columbian Exposition (1893), as the chair of the committee on municipal order, of the World's Congress Auxiliary. She served as president of theNorthwestern University Settlement Association (1894–1900), and of the University Art Guild,Chicago andEvanston, Illinois (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).^[4][1]

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 amonograph entitled "Deaconesses in Early and Modern Church".^[4]

In 1876,^[5] she marriedHenry Wade Rogers, ofBuffalo, New York, dean of theUniversity of Michigan Law School, then the president of Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois,^[4] and afterwards dean ofYale Law School.^[1] Rogers favored suffrage. In 1920, she served as treasurer of the National American Woman Suffrage Association.^[6]

Rogers died in New York City, March 3, 1922.^[7]

• 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

• "Wanted—the woman's land army", 1918^[8]

• This article incorporates text from this source, which is in thepublic domain:Illinois State Library (1912).Dictionary Catalogue of the Illinois State Library: (public Documents Excepted) (Public domain ed.). Danville, Illinois: Illinois Print. Company.
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• This article incorporates text from this source, which is in thepublic domain:Willard, Frances Elizabeth;Livermore, Mary Ashton Rice (1893). "Emma Winner Rogers".A Woman of the Century: Fourteen Hundred-seventy Biographical Sketches Accompanied by Portraits of Leading American Women in All Walks of Life (Public domain ed.).Charles Wells Moulton.

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