[4] Influenced by Francis Wayland Parker and Wilbur S. Jackman,[3] she pursued further studies as one of the first women students of the Cornell University State College of Forestry.

[15] Miller was vice-president of the National Plant, Flower and Fruit Guild,[16] and of the School Gardening Association of America.

[12] Miller died in October 1943, at the age of 89, in Cleveland,[5][19] a few weeks after speaking at the annual meeting of the Garden Club of Ohio.

[20] "She not only taught the art of raising flowers and vegetables, she helped people to overcome their quandaries," recalled an acquaintance in 1953.

[21] More a century after she designed it, the Collinwood School Fire Memorial Garden remains as a monument, though it was much reduced in size when it was redesigned in the 1990s.