Emily James Smith Putnam

Emily James Smith Putnam (April 15, 1865 – September 7, 1944) was an American classical scholar, author and educator. She was the first dean of Barnard College.

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Emily James Smith Putnam
Born	Emily James Smith (1865-04-15)April 15, 1865 Canandaigua, New York, U.S.
Died	September 7, 1944(1944-09-07) (aged 79) Kingston, Jamaica
Education	Girton College, Cambridge University, 1889-90
Alma mater	Bryn Mawr College, 1889
Known for	author, educator
Spouse	George Haven Putnam (m. 1899)
Parent	James C. Smith
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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] Following the death of her husband, she retired from Barnard in 1930 and lived in Spain. She moved to Jamaica after the Spanish Civil War broke out. She died on September 7, 1944, in Kingston.^[2]

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

• Online books, and library resources in your library and in other libraries by Emily James Smith Putnam

Attribution

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