Mary Gay Humphreys

Mary Gay Humphreys (1843 - 1915) was an American journalist and author. She is best known for her writings in multiple news outlets, and her books including one on Catherine Schuyler, a socialite in Colonial America.

Life She was born in Ripley, Ohio in 1843 to William Smith Humphreys and Henrietta Somerville Write and died in 1915. She served as a nurse in the Civil War and the Philippines. Harper's Bazaar, Harper's Weekly, The Evening Sun, and The Chicago Inter-Ocean. In 1885, she co-authored, using the pen name Elinor Gray, Later it was revealed that Somerville was the nom-de-plume of Humphreys. Humphreys went on to publish a sequel, Racer of Illinois, in 1902.

Her final book, Missionary Explorers Among the American Indians, was included as a volume in Scribner's in 1913. The article was devoted to the lives of six American missionaries: John Eliot, Samson Occum, David Brainerd, Marcus Whitman, Stephen Riggs and John Lewis Dyer.

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