Mina Miller Edison, wife of the world famous inventor Thomas Edison, carved her own niche in the world and proved to be a remarkable woman, quietly distinguished in her own right. When she first came to Fort Myers as a young bride in 1886, Mina is reported to have said that the trip seemed to her like a vast and formidable adventure. Florida was to her a vast unknown jungle; possessed of a rich assortment of birds, plants, and exotic flowers that she came to love and appreciate deeply