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716 daughter of Rowland Gibson and Caroline (Newbold) Hazard and of the ninth generation from Thomas Hazard, the founder of the town of Newport, Rhode Island. She was liberally educated primarily in a private school, and for ten years as a member of a class of twenty women conducted by Professor Jeremiah Lewis Diman, D.D., of Brown University. She was elected president of the board of trustees of the South Kingston High School; maintained the kindergarten in Peace Dale; was president of a King's Daughters circle in Peace Dale and became a member of the "Society of Colonial Dames." She also is listed as organizing the Narragansett Choral Society in 1889, and instituted free Sunday afternoon concerts held in the Hartford Memorial Building, Peace Dale. This building was erected as a memorial to her grandfather, Rowland Gibson Hazard. During her tour of the old world 1876-77, she added to her knowledge of political economy, art and literature. In 1899 she was elected president of Wellesley College, Wellesley, Massachusetts, as successor to Mrs. Julia J. Irvine. She was elected a member of the Rhode Island Historical Society and of the New England Historical and Genealogical Society. The University of Michigan conferred upon her the degree of M.A., and Brown University the degree of Litt.D., in 1899. She published "Memoirs of Professor J. Lewis Diman" (1886); "College Tom"; "A Study of Life in Narragansett in the Eighteenth Century by his Grandson's Granddaughter," (1893); "Narragansett Ballads, with Songs and Lyrics," (1894); and "The Narragansett Friends' Meeting in the Eighteenth Century," (1899); she also edited philosophical works of her grandfather, Rowland Gibson Hazard, (1899); and contributed to magazines.

Miss Louise Klein Miller was born in Montgomery County, Ohio. When she was two years old, the family moved to Miamisburg, Ohio, where she attended the village school. Inefficient and uninteresting teachers gave direction and color to her whole life. At times they were so deadly dull she "took to the woods" and there from the Great Teacher she learned the songs and nesting habits of the birds, the color of the butterflies' wings, when and where the first spring flowers bloomed and was unconsciously absorbing the great truths Nature has in store for those who love her. The training at Central High School, Dayton, Ohio, organized the knowledge she had been accumulating from original sources. After graduation, she attended the Normal School and taught in the city schools.

In 1893 she went to the Cook County Normal School, where she came under the influence of Colonel Parker and Mr. Jackman, who were the exponents of rational nature study. After a post-graduate course, she went to East Saginaw, Michigan, as supervisor of nature study in the schools and assistant in the training school. This position was occupied for two years, when she was called to fill a similar position in Detroit, Michigan, and remained there four years.

During the summer months she taught at the Bay View, Michigan Summer School, and with Doctor John M. Coulter, of Chicago University, studied the evolution of plants under the most favorable conditions. At Cornell University, Professor L. H. Bailey gave a more practical direction to her work in agriculture