Harriet Cole Emmons
Harriet Cole Emmons | |
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 Harriet Cole Emmons, from a 1919 publication | |
| Born | Harriet A. Cole July 1, 1873 Brooklyn, New York, U.S. |
| Died | May 13, 1956 (aged 82) Waterbury, Vermont, U.S. |
| Other names | Harriett Cole Emmons |
| Occupation | Home economist |
Harriet A. Cole Emmons (July 1, 1873 – May 13, 1956) was an American home economist, clubwoman, and writer. She tested dyes, developed recipes, and promoted electrical appliances to housewives. She was the first president of the New York League of Business and Professional Women.
Early life and education
[edit]Emmons was born in Brooklyn, New York, the daughter of Simeon Lamartine Cole and Lora Estella Dewey Cole. Her father ran a newspaper in the Genesee Valley, before moving to Brooklyn.[1] She earned a diploma from Pratt Institute in 1893.[2]
Career
[edit]Emmons worked in advertising and marketing, supervising demonstrators. She worked for the Royal Baking Powder Company[3] and the General Chemical Company of New York,[4][5] and ran an industrial test kitchen at National Aniline.[6] She contributed to a cookbook, Ryzon Baking Book (1917), focused on uses for baking powder.[7] She was field editor for The Modern Priscilla, a women's magazine.[8][9]
In 1922, Emmons directed a summer course on home economics demonstration work and promoted electrical appliances at Chautauqua, New York.[10][11] She worked for the Barnsdall Products Corporation in 1924.[12] In 1928 Emmons opened an "educational publicity" office in Freeport, Long Island.[13] She judged a "culinary and arts competition" at the Hotel Astor in 1929.[14] In 1938 she was hostess-director of Fletcher Farm School in Ludlow, Vermont,[15] and gave a radio lecture on "Unspoiled Vermont".[16]
Emmons was the first president[12] of the New York League of Business and Professional Women,[9][17][18] and served on the executive committee of the League for Business Opportunities for Women.[19] In 1947 she was a committee chair with the Vermont Federation of Women's Clubs.[20] She was a member of the Daughters of the American Revolution[21] and the American Home Economics Association.[22]
Publications
[edit]- "Has Paying 'Farm' in City" (Forbes, 1917)[23]
- "Anna Tackmeyer — Chef" (Woman's Home Companion, 1919)[24]
- "Doing Housework in Comfort" (1923)[25]
- "Plans for the Home Laundry" (1928)[26]
Personal life
[edit]Cole married Newton H. Emmons in 1898. They had a daughter, Elizabeth Bancroft Emmons.[1] Her husband died in 1916. She died in 1956, at the age of 72, in Waterbury, Vermont.
References
[edit]- ^ a b "Obituary for Simeon Lamartine Cole". Brooklyn Eagle. 1922-12-17. p. 41. Retrieved 2025-03-28 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "Alumni Notes". Pratt Institute Monthly. 12: 198. April 1904.
- ^ "Stevens High Girls Turn Biscuit Makers". Lancaster New Era. 1915-02-16. p. 1. Retrieved 2025-03-28 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "New York to Have Hostess Club". The Independent Woman. 3: 13. June 1921.
- ^ "League Discusses Food". The Bulletin. 1 (10): 6. September 1917.
- ^ Moriarty, Edith E. (1921-03-20). "Work at Kitchen Stove Started This Woman on Road to Success". Evansville Courier and Press. p. 14. Retrieved 2025-03-27 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ Neil, Marion Harris. (1917). Ryzon baking book: a practical manual for the preparation of food requiring baking powder. New York: General Chemical Co., Food Dept.
- ^ Goldstein, Carolyn M. (2012-05-28). Creating Consumers: Home Economists in Twentieth-Century America. Univ of North Carolina Press. p. 143. ISBN 978-0-8078-7238-3.
- ^ a b "Eastern Editor Spends Several Days in This City". The Oregon Daily Journal. 1922-08-13. p. 37. Retrieved 2025-03-28 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "Do You Want to Take a Summer Course in Demonstrating?". Electrical Merchandising Week. 28: 113. July 1922.
- ^ "Housewife Learns of New Methods; Told About Latest Things in Electrical Appliances at Chautauqua". The Plain Dealer. 1922-08-31. p. 9. Retrieved 2025-03-28 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ a b "Society Personals; Club Notes". Hartford Courant. 1924-11-18. p. 17. Retrieved 2025-03-28 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "Has Opened Office" The Independent Woman 7(June 1928): 278.
- ^ "County Women to Enter Contest". The Herald Statesman. 1929-09-11. p. 3. Retrieved 2025-03-28 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "Mrs. H. C. Emmons New Farm Director". Rutland Daily Herald. 1938-07-29. p. 5. Retrieved 2025-03-28 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "Radio Broadcast". News and Citizen. 1938-06-08. p. 3. Retrieved 2025-03-28 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "Ex-President New York BPW League Guest Local Club". Evening Express. 1924-05-27. p. 5. Retrieved 2025-03-28 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "Business Women's League Installs". Brooklyn Eagle. 1925-05-26. p. 9. Retrieved 2025-03-28 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "The League Elects Officers". The Bulletin. 1 (3): 6. February 1917.
- ^ "Morrisville; Mrs. Frederick Fletcher Addresses Junior Women". The Burlington Free Press. 1947-11-10. p. 13. Retrieved 2025-03-28 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "Morrisville". The Burlington Free Press. 1950-10-03. p. 4. Retrieved 2025-03-28 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ American Home Economics Association (December 1919). Bulletin of the American Home Economics Association: Home, Institution, School. p. 13.
- ^ Emmons, Harriet C. (1917). "Has a Paying 'Farm' in City". Forbes Magazine. 1 (2): 85 – via Internet Archive.
- ^ Emmons, Harriet Cole (June 1919). "Anna Tackmeyer -- Chef". Woman's Home Companion. 46: 28.
- ^ Emmons, Harriet C. (1923-04-08). "Doing Housework in Comfort". The Minneapolis Journal. p. 54. Retrieved 2025-03-28 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ Emmons, Harriet Cole (1928-12-28). "Plans for the Home Laundry". Detroit Free Press. p. 10. Retrieved 2025-03-28 – via Newspapers.com.
External links
[edit]- A 1922 issue of The Modern Priscilla, during Emmons's time as a field editor for the magazine