Georgine Milmine (1872-1950) was born in Blenheim, Ontario, Canada, and died in Falmouth, Massachusetts. By 1892 she was living in Olean, New York, and working as a printer. By 1900 she had moved to Syracuse, New York, where she became the editor of the women's pages at the Syracuse Herald. In 1905, in Boston, Massachusetts, she married Benjamin E. Welles, who at the time was the managing editor of the Syracuse Herald, and they moved to nearby Auburn, New York, where Welles became an editorial writer for the Auburn Citizen. Welles died in 1912, and Milmine married Arthur E. Adams, a prominent pharmacist in Auburn, in 1914.
According to most accounts, Milmine was impressed by the reporting of Ida M. (Ida Minerva) Tarbell, 1857-1944, on the Standard Oil Company in McClure's Magazine, and was inspired to write about Mary Baker Eddy in a similar fashion. Milmine spent a number of years (most likely between 1903 and 1906) doing interviews and research for what would become a series of articles which ran in McClure's, beginning with an introductory editorial in December 1906 and concluding in June 1908. There were 14 articles in total plus the introductory piece. After Milmine turned her materials and early drafts over to McClure's, her involvement with the project was limited. Although Milmine's name was listed in the byline, the articles were largely rewritten by staff editors, including Willa Cather, 1873-1947; Burton J. (Burton Jesse) Hendrick, 1870-1949; and Will Irwin, 1873-1948. The articles were subsequently compiled into a book entitled The Life of Mary Baker G. Eddy and the History of Christian Science, published in 1909. According to her obituary, Milmine and her husband became summer residents of Falmouth, Massachusetts, in 1926 and located there permanently in 1949.
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Georgine Milmine (1872-1950) was born in Blenheim, Ontario, Canada, and died in Falmouth, Massachusetts. By 1892 she was living in Olean, New York, and working as a printer. By 1900 she had moved to Syracuse, New York, where she became the editor of the women's pages at the Syracuse Herald. In 1905, in Boston, Massachusetts, she married Benjamin E. Welles, who at the time was the managing editor of the Syracuse Herald, and they moved to nearby Auburn, New York, where Welles became an editorial writer for the Auburn Citizen. Welles died in 1912, and Milmine married Arthur E. Adams, a prominent pharmacist in Auburn, in 1914.
According to most accounts, Milmine was impressed by the reporting of Ida M. (Ida Minerva) Tarbell, 1857-1944, on the Standard Oil Company in McClure's Magazine, and was inspired to write about Mary Baker Eddy in a similar fashion. Milmine spent a number of years (most likely between 1903 and 1906) doing interviews and research for what would become a series of articles which ran in McClure's, beginning with an introductory editorial in December 1906 and concluding in June 1908. There were 14 articles in total plus the introductory piece. After Milmine turned her materials and early drafts over to McClure's, her involvement with the project was limited. Although Milmine's name was listed in the byline, the articles were largely rewritten by staff editors, including Willa Cather, 1873-1947; Burton J. (Burton Jesse) Hendrick, 1870-1949; and Will Irwin, 1873-1948. The articles were subsequently compiled into a book entitled The Life of Mary Baker G. Eddy and the History of Christian Science, published in 1909. According to her obituary, Milmine and her husband became summer residents of Falmouth, Massachusetts, in 1926 and located there permanently in 1949.
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