Belle Willey Gue

Ruth Belle Willey Gue (April 8, 1860 – October 23, 1944) was an American writer and clubwoman, based in San Diego in later life.

[1] She graduated from Oberlin College in 1882[1][2] Gue's poems and stories appeared in the Los Angeles Times,[3] The Cosmopolitan,[4] Outdoor Life[5][6] The Kindergarten Primary Magazine,[7] and Overland Monthly.

"Mrs. Gue undoubtedly has the poetic instinct and understands the art of versification," noted a 1905 reviewer in Nebraska, "but no one but a martyr or most intimate friend would want to read more than two of her eighty-four short poems at one sitting.

[16] In 1918, she wrote the lyrics for "Our Golden State", an entry in a patriotic song contest during World War I.

[17] She also wrote the lyrics of "The Elm Trees of Oberlin", which was sung at an alumni association event in San Diego in 1924.