Alice Duer Miller

Alice Duer Miller (July 28, 1874 - August 22, 1942) was an American writer and poet. Alice Duer was born in New York City on July 28, 1874 into a wealthy family. She was the daughter of James Gore King Duer and Elizabeth Wilson Meads. Elizabeth was the daughter of Orlando Meads of Albany, New York. Her paternal great grandfather, was William Duer, an American lawyer, developer, and speculator from New York City. He had served in the Continental Congress and the convention that framed the New York Constitution. In 1778, he signed the United States Articles of Confederation and was the president of Columbia College, 1829–1842; and her great great grandfather was William Alexander, who claimed the disputed title of Earl of Stirling, and...