Mary Hayden Pike (30 November 1824 – 15 January 1908) American

United States

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 author

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 born in Eastport, Maine

Eastport, Maine

Eastport is a small city in Washington County, Maine, United States. The population was 1,640 at the 2000 census. The principal island is Moose Island, which is connected to the mainland by causeway...

 to Elijah Dix Green and Hannah Caflin Hayden. She was educated in Calais, Maine

Calais, Maine

Calais is a city in Washington County, Maine, United States. The city has three United States border crossings or also known as a Port of entry with the busiest being on the St. Croix River bordering St. Stephen, New Brunswick, Canada...

 and acquired religious convictions at the early age of twelve when she went through baptism

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 in an icy stream. She graduated from the Charleston, Massachusetts Female Seminary in 1843. In 1846 she married Frederick A. Pike

Frederick A. Pike

Frederick Augustus Pike was a U.S. Representative from Maine.Born in Calais, Maine, Pike attended the common schools and the Washington Academy, East Machias, Maine....

 who later was elected to the 37th United States Congress

37th United States Congress

The Thirty-seventh United States Congress was a meeting of the legislative branch of the United States federal government, consisting of the United States Senate and the United States House of Representatives. It met in Washington, D.C. from March 4, 1861 to March 4, 1863, during the first two...

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Works

• Ida May: a Story of Things Actual and Possible 1854 (Written under the pseudonym
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  name Mary Langdon),
• Caste: A Story of Republican Equality 1856 (Written under the pseudonym name Sydney A. Story, Jr.)
• Agnes 1858.