[5] Her statue Hope was among the first that met with recognition and was placed in the McCowen Oral School, in Englewood, Chicago.
[5] During the Exposition, Miner and Helen Farnsworth Mears were both named artists-in-residence at the Wisconsin Building.
At that time, Miner was commissioned to create a work of art representing the state.
The result was her most famous work, Forward, which was later given the honor of a prominent position at the Wisconsin State Capitol.
[3] Jean Pond Miner married lawyer Alonzo John Coburn in 1896.