Born: 19 February 1867, United States
Died: 23 September 1951
Country most active: United States
Also known as: Annie Florance Nathan
The following is excerpted from Famous Women: An Outline of Feminine Achievement Through the Ages With Life Stories of Five Hundred Noted Women. Written by Joseph Adelman, published 1926 by Ellis M Lonow Company.
Annie Nathan Meyer, an American author and promoter of the higher education of women, born in New York City. She is a sister of Maud Nathan, and in 1887 was married to Dr. Alfred Meyer. Besides editing Women’s Work in America, and publishing several books on education and the woman question, Mrs. Meyer was instrumental in founding Barnard College, now a part of Columbia University. She became known also as an opponent of woman suffrage.
The following is excerpted from A Woman of the Century, edited by Frances E. Willard and Mary A Livermore, published in 1893 by Charles Wells Moulton.
MEYER, Mrs. Annie Nathan, author and worker for the advancement of women, born in New York, N.Y., in 1867. Her maiden name was Annie Nathan. She belongs to a prominent Jewish family and is a cousin of the late Emma Lazarus. She was educated at home in her childhood and afterward entered the School for Women, a branch at that time of Columbia College. She became the wife of Dr. Alfred Meyer, before she had finished her school course, and withdrew from her class She was one of the first to enter the woman’s course in Columbia College, in 1885, and her efforts and those of others resulted in the founding of Barnard College, affiliated with Columbia College, receiving full official sanction and recognition. She is now one of the trustees. She is the editor of “Woman’s Work in America,” a volume containing the result of three years of earnest work and research. Mrs. Meyer is opposed to woman suffrage, unless the franchise be restricted by laws providing for an educational qualification. It is her theory that legislation should follow in the footsteps of education. She is a gifted woman, a poet and essayist, but most of her activities have been expended on philanthropic, reform and charitable work. Her home is in New York City.