Emma Genevieve Gillette

E. Genevieve Gillette (May 19, 1898 – May 23, 1986) was an early conservationist in Michigan, United States.

Life She was born in Lansing on May 19, 1898. In 1901 she and her family moved to a farm on the Grand River in Dimondale. She attended Michigan Agricultural College, Michigan State University. She was allowed to sit-in on a chemistry class after meeting with the college president Frank S. Kedzie, who had been a friend of her father's. It might justly be said of Genevieve Gillette: "If you are seeking for her monument, look about you."

Gillette died in 1986 in Ann Arbor, Michigan and is buried in the Mount Hope Cemetery in Lansing. Her estate provided a $300,000 trust to acquire new lands for the public benefit. The final park she created was Thompson's Harbor State Park in Presque Isle County.