Louise Klein Miller
American curator of school gardens (1855-1943)
Louise Klein Miller (August 7, 1854 – October 24, 1943) was an American landscape architect, educator, and curator of school gardens for the Cleveland public school system.
Early life and education
Miller was born on a farm near Dayton, Ohio and raised in Miamisburg, Ohio, the daughter of William Miller and Ann Cline Miller. After teaching for years in Dayton, she graduated from Cook County Normal School in 1893. Influenced by Francis Wayland Parker and Wilbur S. Jackman, she pursued further studies as one of the first women students of the Cornell University State College of Forestry.
Career
Miller taught school in Dayton as a young woman. She taught at the Lowthorpe School of Horticulture and Landscape Gardening for Women in Massachusetts, and designed the Lowthorpe Garden. In 1904, she became head of the Cleveland Board of Education's Department of School Gardens. The program founded eight elementary school gardens and home gardens for students. While there, she designed a memorial garden to commemorate the 172 victims of a school fire in Collinwood, Ohio in 1910.
After she retired from the Cleveland schools in 1938, she was in charge of the grounds at the Blossom Hill School for Girls in Brecksville, Ohio.
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