Mary Royce Ormsbee Whitton (February 23, 1886 - January 31, 1971) was a 20th-century American author.
She wrote First First Ladies (1948) and other books focusing on women in American history.
She graduated from Smith College in 1907,[2] and published short stories and poems in various publications.
[1][3][4] She died of a heart attack at her home in Pound Ridge, New York at the age of 84 on January 31, 1971.
She was survived by a daughter, also named Mary Ormsbee Whitton, who married journalist George E. Bria,[5] and two grandchildren.