[1] Many of her fugitive pieces were published by the Louisville Journal, the Odd Fellows' Ark, at Columbus, Ohio, and other periodicals.

Ruter enjoyed spending time by herself in a rustic bower constructed in a woodland pasture adjacent to her home.

On the one hand, her father, a man of melancholy temperament and studious habits, required absolute quiet in his household; this gave her many hours for lonely reflection and for the study of books.

But with her mother's health failing and many of the domestic duties falling on her, she was forced to stay away from books and writing materials, lest the household chores be neglected.

As her father's parishioners were poor, and his financial means were limited, she subsequently assisted by teaching school at Rising Sun, Indiana, to help her parents and to be able to purchase the books she craved.

In 1809, he settled on the spot where Vevay, Indiana, now stands, then a dense, unbroken forest; he laid out the town in 1813, naming it after his native home on Lake Geneva.

[4] In 1854, he received from President Franklin Pierce an appointment to the United States General Land Office,[2] in Washington, D.C., where he moved with his family.

She was, therefore, a woman of the West, by birth, by education, by marriage, and by residence, and her poetical talents were exclusively of Western culture.

Joseph A. Wright, then governor of Indiana, sent a block of marble for the Washington monument, on which was inscribed the motto: "No North, No South, Nothing but the Union."

Some months before the death of the scientist Baron Von Humboldt, Dufour wrote a poem on his distinction as "King of Science."

Her lines on "Thought," fraught with genuine feeling and characterized by graceful imagery, were from an elaborate unpublished poem.

Its impassioned lines disclosed the noblest and warmest aspects in the heart of the writer; and in them; therefore, the reader sought, with best chance of obtaining a clue to the just appreciation of the character, and just estimate of the genius which thus conceived and pictured, not what is, but what might be; not what could be found in this world, but still, what could be imagine, and may hope, perhaps, to meet with in another.