[4] Julia H. Thayer was born on October 6, 1847, in Keeseville, New York, a village near Lake Champlain.

"[2] She first published her verses anonymously, but since 1870, the productions, chiefly poetical, appeared in various papers and periodicals under her own name.

She wore a plain gold ring on the third finger of her left hand, the first piece of precious metal she received for one of her poems.

[6] After her father's death in 1892, Thayer became president of the nonsectarian[7] Chicago Female College,[4] in the Givens Castle, which she owned.

She was a member of the Illinois Woman's Press Association and the National League of American Pen Women.