A Biographical Sketch

. Her husband had paid tribute to her in the prefaces of Manhood of Humanity and Science and Sanity. She had reached fame in the circles into which her work had led her. The life story of this remarkable woman ranges over many parts of the world, and encompasses a unique career as well as a special place in the history of general semantics. Mira Edgerly was born in Aurora, Illinois, in 1872, the third of three children, all girls. Her mother, Rose Haskell, was of Scotch ancestry; the family of her father, Samuel Haven Edgerly, had come some generations before from Oxfordshire, England. He was an inventor and a director of the Michigan Central Railroad When she was three, the family moved to Jackson, Michigan. A few years later they moved to Detroit, where she attended the fashionable Liggett's Private School. There she was reported to be a very mischievous student, but so amenable to discipline that she was quickly forgiven. The family moved to Kansas City when she was fifteen. Then, five years later, with her mothe