Todd, Mary Ives
author, poet, was born in Dec. 23, 1848, in Eddyville, Iowa.
She is the daughter of Homer De Grasse Ives, lawyer of ability. She is the author of The New Adam and Eve; and novel entitled Little Ruth. She received thorough education in the public schools of her native city, and in a private seminary in New Haven, Conn.
She has contributed stories, newspaper a articles and poems to the periodical press; and her poems have been incorporated in Poets of America and other standard works. At the age of twenty years she was married to Dr. B. Todd, and resides in Los Angeles, Cal.