Laytonville is a census-designated place (CDP) in Mendocino County, California, United States. It is located 23 miles (37 km) north-northwest of Willits, at an elevation of 1,670 feet (510 m). The population was 1,152 at the 2020 census, down from 1,227 at the 2010 census.
Velma Caldwell Melville was an American editor, and writer of prose and poetry from Wisconsin. She served as editor of the "Home Circle and Youths' Department" of the Practical Farmer of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania as well as for the "Hearth and Home Department" of the Wisconsin Farmer, of Madison, Wisconsin. She was one of the most voluminous writers of her time in Central/Western United States publications. Melville wrote several serials, and her poems and sketches appeared in nearly 100 publications.
Ella Brockway Avann was a 19th-century American educator and writer. After graduating from Albion College of Michigan, she subsequently became preceptress of that institution. She filled the chair of English literature and also lectured on the history of music. For 10 years, she was president of the Woman's Foreign Missionary society. Avann made frequent contributions to the religious press. She held official positions in various literary, social and benevolent societies.
Julia Boynton Green was an American author and poet. She is remembered as an "anti-modernist who railed against free verse". She was the author of a volume of poems entitled Lines and Interlines (1887), as well as two other books, This Enchanted Coast: Verse on California Themes (1928) and Noonmark (1936). She died in 1957.
Laura M. Johns was an American suffragist and journalist. She served as president of the Kansas State Suffrage Association six times, and her great work was the arrangement of thirty conventions beginning in Kansas City in February, 1892. She also served as president of the Kansas Republican Woman's Association, superintendent of the Kansas Woman's Christian Temperance Union, and field organizer of the National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA). Johns died in 1935.
Rosa Miller Avery née, Miller; was an American abolitionist, political reformer, second-generation suffragist, and writer.
Agnes Leonard Hill was an American journalist, newspaper founder and publisher, as well as an author and poet, an evangelist and a social reformer. Born in Louisville, Kentucky, her mother died when Hill was a small child, and with her father remaining unmarried, and very indulgent, Hill led a roving, gypsy sort of life, following her own inclinations, and studying persons rather than books. From earliest childhood, she evinced a fondness for writing.
Mary Bushnell Williams was a Louisiana Creole American author, poet, and translator. She resided in Louisiana her entire life except for a brief period when she removed to Texas during the American Civil War. A pupil of Alexander Dimitry, her translations from different languages were admired, and her poems were held in high esteem. Besides poetry, she wrote sketches in prose.
Anna Peyre Dinnies was a 19th-century American poet and miscellaneous writer. Under the pen name of "Moina", both before and after her marriage, she wrote many poems which attracted attention, of which "Chrysanthemum" was one of the better-known. She contributed to the leading periodicals of the Southern United States.
Mary Scrimzeour Whitaker was an American litterateur, author, poet, essayist, novelist, and critic. Born in South Carolina, she became a writer of New Orleans. Her written works include Poems and Albert Hasting, the first Southern novel published after the American Civil War. She was a typical "daughter of the South", and in everything she wrote, this characteristic was evident. After completing her education in Europe, she almost immediately began writing for magazines and Northern periodicals, contributing thousands of articles to the press. One of her most widely copied poems was a classic called the "Sacrifice of Iphegenie"; another, "Farewell to Scotland", thought written when she was but eighteen years of age, is a good example of her poetic productions.
Rebecca S. Nichols was a 19th American poet. She was among the first of the writers in the "young West" to receive popular recognition for her prose and poetry.
Grace A. Oliver was a 19th-century American author, litterateur, and advocate for women's rights. She was characterized as a woman of rare executive ability, a good speaker, and was noted for her charity work.
Martha A. Boughton was an American educator, author, poet, and clubwoman. She wrote biographies as well as religious music and lyrics. Among her publications can be counted Memoir of Rev. John Motte Arnold, D.D. (1885), The Quest of a Soul, and Other Verse (1911), Onward (1918), and Mystery and Other Poems (1926).
Katherine Van Allen Grinnell was an American lecturer, author, and social reformer. She was one of the first women in the United States to lecture and write on the place of woman in the scheme of government. Grinnell attained an international reputation and was praised by Frances Willard, Susan B. Anthony, Lady Somerset, and others.
Elizabeth Willisson Stephen was an American author. Since 1878, she contributed prose and poetry to the northern and southern press. Her poem, "Mine", published in the Gulf Citizen, was characterized as classic in its treatment. With her mother, she was the co-author of The Confessions of Two, a novel.
Marion Howard Dunham was an American teacher, temperance activist, and suffragist. She entered upon the temperance field in 1877 with the inauguration of the red ribbon movement in her state of Iowa, but believing in more permanent effort, she was the prime agitator in the organization of the local Woman's Christian Temperance Union (W.C.T.U.). In 1883, she was elected state superintendent of the Department of Scientific Temperance and held the office for four years lecturing to institutes and general audiences on that subject most of the time. She procured the "Prohibitory law of the state of Iowa", in February 1886. When the Iowa State Temperance Union began to display its opposition to the national W.C.T.U., she came to be considered a leader on the side of the minority who adhered to the national and when the majority in the state union seceded from the national union October 16, 1890, she was elected president of those remaining auxiliary to that body. She spent a large part of her time in the field lecturing on temperance.
Hester A. Benedict was an American poet and writer. She had a literary reputation in the East before her removal to California where she served as president of the Pacific Coast Women's Press Association in San Francisco. Dickinson's works included, Vesta (1872), Fagots (1895), and Songs En Route (1911). After her second marriage, she retained "Hester A. Benedict" as a literary name, and also used it as a pen name in her second book, but not for the third one.
Mrs. Findley Braden was the pen name of Anna Braden an American writer, newspaper editor, and elocutionist. Prior to marriage, she used Madge Rile and other pen names.
Elizabeth Bunnell Read was an American journalist and woman suffragist. Between 1861 and 1865, in Indiana, Read published The Mayflower, the only suffrage paper published during the American Civil War. She served as President of the Iowa Woman's Suffrage Society.
