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Mina Miller Edison (July 6, 1865 – August 24, 1947) was an American community activist and the second wife of inventor and industrialist Thomas Edison. She was a community activist in Fort Myers, Florida, known for her work advancing the use of public spaces and education initiatives.
Mina Miller was born on July 6, 1865, the seventh of eleven children. She met Thomas Edison at the home of a mutual friend of her father and Edison, the inventor Ezra Gilliland. Her future husband claims he taught her Morse code so that they could converse in secret, even while the family watched.
3 de mar. de 2023 · The second wife of Thomas Edison, she viewed domestic labor as a science, calling herself a “home executive”. Mina’s goal was to keep the home—and women—central in modern society ...
- Katherine Hobbs
Mina Miller Edison: A Valuable Partner to Thomas Edison. Mina Miller Edison (1865-1947) was the second wife of Thomas Edison. He married her in 1886 after the death of his first wife, Mary Stillwell Edison, in 1884.
“Saw a lady who looked like Mina. Got thinking about Mina and came near being run over by a street car. If Mina interferes much more will have to take out an accident policy.” Thus wrote widower Thomas Alva Edison in his short-lived diary (1*) when, in 1885, at the age of 38, he was courting the beauteous, just-turned-twenty Mina Miller. Seven months later, on February 24, 1886, they were ...
Edison After Forty: Home Life. Edison with his children, Madeline and Charles, about 1895. Mina Miller was only 20 when she married Edison in 1886. But she had a strong sense of the place of the husband in the family, and the will to back it up.
Perhaps best-known as simply the wife of Thomas Edison, Mina Miller Edison was a remarkable woman in her own right who left an indelible mark on the world, s...
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