Georgine Milmine

[3] Georgine Milmine was born in Ontario, Canada, but later moved to live in Upstate New York[1] She pursued a career in journalism and wrote for the St. Louis Star,[4] the Buffalo Courier,[5] and apparently tried to start her own periodical, named The Chiel, although its fate is unknown.

[7][2] Her research included court records, newspaper articles from the 1880s, and a first edition of Science and Health, which were hard to obtain.

[8] Lacking the resources to verify and write up the material, she sold it to S. S. McClure, who assigned several writers to check and expand it, including Willa Cather, Burton J. Hendrick, and William Henry Irwin.

[8] At least some of Milmine's research survived; it was purchased in June 1920 by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, from a New York Manuscript dealer.

[10][11] After her first husband's death in January 1912,[12] Milmine remarried, this time to a pharmacist in Auburn, Arthur A. Adams, on 14 August 1914.