Mary Gay Humphreys

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. == Writings ==

Humphreys wrote in multiple periodicals including The Art Amateur, Scribner's Sons, ''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. ==Selected publications==