Harriet May Mills

She graduated from Cornell University in 1879,[1] having joined the school only two years after it began admitting women.

[2] Her father Charles was an abolitionist who was involved in the Jerry Rescue and had his house served as a safe harbor for escaped slaves as part of the Underground Railroad.

[3] After finishing college, Mills organized one of the first and largest clubs in the country dedicated to the study of Robert Browning, and would become a widely known authority and lecturer on the poet.

[2] A building at the New York State Fairgrounds was named in her honor - The Harriet May Mills Art & Home Center : https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/66656302/harriet-may-mills Mills died at Crouse-Irving Hospital from a chronic heart illness on May 16, 1935.

[5] The Harriet May Mills House in Syracuse is listed in the National Register of Historic Places.