Emily Parmely Collins (née, Parmely; after first marriage, Peltier; after second marriage, Collins; pen name, Justitia; August 11, 1814 – April 14, 1909) was an American woman suffragist, women's rights activist, and writer of the long nineteenth century.

[1] Her ancestors on her father's side came from Kent County England and settled in Guilford, Connecticut, in 1639.

[1] At age 16, Collins became a teacher of district number 11 in Burbee Hollow, Bristol, New York.

[4] In 1832, she removed to Michigan with a brother where she taught in a log schoolhouse in the vicinity of Port Huron.

Charles served as Post Trader at Fort Gratiot, and afterward Comptroller and Justice of the peace in Detroit, holding office through several administrations.

Every argument for the emancipation of the colored man, was equally one for that of woman; and I was surprised that all Abolitionists did not see the similarity in the condition of the two classes.

She wrote:— "I served as a volunteer nurse through the campaign of 1864 at the front in the Shenandoah Valley, with both of my sons, Dr. P. D. Peltier and Captain E. Burke Collins.

As a solution of the temperance issue, she advocated in the Hartford Examiner the exclusive manufacture and sale of liquor at cost by the government.

She also urged a change from the electoral system to that of proportional representation, and industrial cooperation in place of competition.

[2] She became a member of the Daughters of the American Revolution, Hannah Woodruff Chapter, of Southington, Connecticut, in October 1904.