Emily James Smith Putnam

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

Biography She was the daughter of Justice James Cosslett Smith (1817–1900). She graduated from Bryn Mawr College in 1889 and studied at Girton College, Cambridge University, from 1889 to 1890.

She was teacher of Greek at the Packer Collegiate Institute, Brooklyn, in 1891–1893. She was a fellow in Greek at the University of Chicago in 1893–1894, and dean of Barnard College in 1894–1900. She was a trustee of Barnard College in 1900–1905, and president of the League for Political Education (co-founded by her sister-in-law Mary Putnam Jacobi) in 1901–1904. She was vice-president and manager of the Women's University Club, New York City, in 1907–1911.

Emily James Smith – on April 27, 1899, in Canandaigua, New York – married American writer and publisher George Haven Putnam (1844–1930). 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.

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