Martha Summerhayes (1844 - 1926)
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Martha Summerhayes (October 21, 1844 - May 12, *1926) was an American memoirist.
She was a Nantucket, Massachusetts native who later on in life immigrated to Arizona. A well travelled and educated woman, Summerhayes spent two years, from 1871 to 1873, studying literature in Germany. Her passion for writing took her into a career as a writer. She became well known as a writer in Massachusetts, but she usually did her writing during the winter, which, in turn, led to her becoming interested in the warmer weather of Arizona.
Image, Death Date, and Text Sources: Wikipedia
Note: In her book VANISHED ARIZONA 1870-1900-Recollections of the Army Life of a New England Woman, the Publisher's Prefice states that Martha Summerhayes died in 1911.