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 Edna L. Skinner was born in Michigan in 1880 and educated at the Michigan State Normal College (BEd) and the Teachers College at Columbia University (BS and MA).  After six years teaching at the Teachers College, 1908-1912, she was hired to head the Department of Household Science at James Milliken University in Illinois, and taught two summers at the University of California.  In 1918, while Director of Homemaking at Pine Manor College in Wellesley, she was hired to become Head of the new program in Home Economics at Massachusetts Agricultural College by its ninth President, [[b:butterfield_kenyon_l|Kenyon L. Butterfield]], a strong proponent of women's education.