Louise Esther Vickroy Boyd
Louise Vickroy Boyd (January 2, 1827 – July 25, 1909) was an American writer. She was born Louise Esther Vickroy in Urbana, Ohio and moved to Ferndale, Pennsylvania. She was educated in Lancaster and Philadelphia.
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Louise Esther Vickroy Boyd
Willard, Frances Elizabeth (1893) A Woman of the Century: Fourteen Hundred-seventy Biographical Sketches Accompanied by Portraits of Leading American Women in All Walks of Life, Moulton · Public domain
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- Louise Esther Vickroy Boyd
- Born
- 2 January 1827
- Birthplace
- Urbana, Ohio, U.S.
- Birth Name
- Louise Esther Vickroy
- Place of death
- Ada, Ohio, U.S.
- Nationality
- United States
- Occupation
- poet · writer
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Louise Vickroy Boyd (January 2, 1827 – July 25, 1909) was an American writer. She was born Louise Esther Vickroy in Urbana, Ohio and moved to Ferndale, Pennsylvania. She was educated in Lancaster and Philadelphia.
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She taught school until September 1865 when she married Dr. Boyd and settled in Dublin, Indiana. She was an advocate for women's suffrage and temperance. Boyd wrote her first poem in 1851. She contributed to The Little Pilgrim, as well as The Knickerbocker, The Saturday Evening Post, Appletons' Journal, Graham's Magazine, the New-York Tribune, the Cincinnati Gazette, the Woman's Journal and other publications. Several of her poems were translated into German, including four translated by the German-American author Karl Knortz. She also published stories for children and essays. Boyd died at her sister's home in Ada, Ohio and was buried in Dublin.
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• Name — Louise Esther Vickroy Boyd • Born — 2 January 1827 • Birthplace — Urbana, Ohio, U.S. • Birth Name — Louise Esther Vickroy • Place of death — Ada, Ohio, U.S. • Genre — Poetry
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- 1.History of Wayne County, Indiana: Together with Sketches of Its Cities, Villages and Towns. 1. 640–41. 1884.
- 2.Willard, Frances Elizabeth. A Woman of the Century: Fourteen Hundred-seventy Biographical Sketches Accompanied by Portraits of Leading American Women in All Walks of Life. Moulton. 111–12. 1893.
- 3.White. Poems by Esther Vickroy Boyd. 1911.
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