Martha Summerhayes
Author
1844 – 1926
Who was Martha Summerhayes?
Martha Summerhayes 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.
In 1873, she married soldier John Wyer Summerhayes, a veteran of the American Civil War.
Wyer Summerhayes was still in the military when the couple married, so Martha further expanded her travels by going with her husband wherever the military sent him when no war was being fought. The Summerhayes arrived at Fort Russell, near Cheyenne, Wyoming shortly after marrying. In 1874, they were sent by the military to an Arizona that at the time counted with only about 20,000 inhabitants. They stayed at a ranch owned by Corydon Cooley, a White man who had two Indian wives.
Accommodations at Cooley's ranch were quite different from what Martha Summerhayes had experience in the east and Europe.
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- Born
- Oct 21, 1844
Nantucket - Nationality
- United States of America
- Died
- May 12, 1926
Schenectady - Resting place
- Arlington National Cemetery
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on July 23, 2013
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