She is best known for her writings in multiple news outlets, and her books including one on Catherine Schuyler, a socialite in Colonial America.
She was born in Ripley, Ohio[1] in 1843 to William Smith Humphreys and Henrietta Somerville Write and died in 1915.
[7] In 1885, she co-authored, using the pen name Elinor Gray,[1] a book with American Christian author, William Boardman.
When Jack Racer was first published, the news described the author Henry Somerville as a native of Ohio who worked in the newspaper business and who had been encouraged by his mother to write fiction.
Her final book, Missionary Explorers Among the American Indians, was included as a volume in Scribner's in 1913.