Emily James Smith Putnam

She was the daughter of Justice James C. Smith. She graduated from Bryn Mawr College in 1889 and studied at Girton College, Cambridge University, in 1889-90.

She was teacher of Greek at the Packer Collegiate Institute, Brooklyn, in 1891-93. She was a fellow in Greek at the University of Chicago in 1893-94, and dean of Barnard College in 1894-1900. She was a trustee of Barnard College in 1900-05, and president of the League for Political Education (co-founded by her sister-in-law Mary Putnam Jacobi) In 1901-04. She was vice-president and manager of the Women's University Club, New York City, in 1907-11.

She married George Haven Putnam in 1899.[1]

• Selections from Lucian (1891)
• The Lady (1910)
• Greek Religion (1913)

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Attribution

•  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Rines, George Edwin, ed. (1920). "Putman, Emily James Smith" . Encyclopedia Americana.