Nettie Leila Michel

Nettie Leila Michel (later known as, Jeannette Champion Roake; September 26, 1863 — June 29, 1912) was an American business woman, author, and magazine editor. Michel was the first woman commercial traveler (traveling salesperson) in the United States 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.

Nettie Leila Michel

Nettie Leila Michel (later known as, Jeannette Champion Roake; September 26, 1863 — June 29, 1912) was an American business woman, author, and magazine editor. Michel was the first woman commercial traveler (traveling salesperson) in the United States 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.