[2] Her father, the son of an English gentleman and a representative man, gave his children the best educational advantages of the time.

[1] Although reared with a prospect of continued affluence, her earnestness of purpose was early shown, for, at the age of sixteen, during financial trouble, she, eager to feel herself in touch with the world, went to teach in a public school in Brooklyn, New York.

When the needs of the Civil War aroused women into action, Wing's capabilities were quickly recognized, and she was made secretary and treasurer of a local branch of the Sanitary Commission.

On March 20, 1890, at Madison Square Theatre, the foundation for a permanent General Federation of Women's Clubs was organized.

A committee, which included Wing, was appointed to draft a constitution and present a plan of organization.

The first poem was an elaborate and highly artistic work, entitled "Sunset From Brooklyn Heights.

[2] Amelia Kempshall Wing died July 21, 1927, in Brooklyn at the Congregational Home for the Aged after a week's illness.