Nettie Leila Michel

Nettie Leila Michel
from A Woman of the Century
Born	Jeannette Leila Champion September 26, 1863 Oswego, New York, U.S.
Died	June 29, 1912 (aged 49) Brooklyn, New York, U.S.
Resting place	Oswego
Nickname	Nettie
Occupation	business woman commercial traveler author magazine editor
Language	English
Spouse	Mr. Michel ​ ​ (m. 1882; div. 1882)​ Sidney H. Smith ​ ​ (m. 1893; died 1903)​ Elijah Lee Roake ​ (m. 1904)​

Nettie Leila Michel (née, Champion; after first marriage, Michel; after second marriage, Smith; after third marriage, Jeannette Champion Roake; September 26, 1863 – June 29, 1912) was an American business woman, author, and magazine editor of the long nineteenth century. Michel was the first woman commercial traveler (traveling salesperson) in the U.S. and early in life traveled through Michigan for the N. K. Fairbank Company, of Chicago. She later gave up traveling and became the first editor of a strictly literary magazine, being associated with Charles Wells Moulton in Buffalo, New York, on The Magazine of Poetry, and with Mary Livermore in literary work.^[1]