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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 · Mina, who presided over Glenmont, the Edisons’ home in West Orange, New Jersey, for six decades, is half the story of how the Edison family helped define American modernity.
Mina was one of the middle children of eleven born to Lewis and Mary Valinda Alexander Miller of Akron, Ohio. Lewis was an inventor and manufacturer of note. His invention of a reaper with a moveable cutting bar and other farm machines earned him a fortune and helped to revolutionize agriculture.
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.
Mina Florence Miller, credited as Mina F. Miller and Mina Miller, is an American classical pianist, writer, and founder and artistic director of Music of Remembrance in Seattle, Washington.
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. She got him home for dinner (at least occasionally), they took vacations, and they spent time in Florida.
