Eliza Calvert Hall


Eliza Caroline Lida Obenchain , was an American author, womens rights advocate, and suffragist from Bowling Green, Kentucky. Lida Obenchain, writing under the pen name Eliza Calvert Hall, was widely known early in the twentieth century for her short stories featuring an elderly widowed woman, Aunt Jane, who plainly spoke her mind about the people she knew and her experiences in the rural south.

Eliza Caroline Calvert, daughter of Thomas Chalmers Calvert and Margaret Calvert, was born in Bowling Green, Kentucky on February 11, 1856. She was known as Lida throughout her life. Lidas father Thomas Chalmers Calvert was born in Giles County, Tennessee to Samuel Wilson Calvert, a Presbyterian minister, and his wife Eliza Caroline Calvert. Lidas mother, Margaret Younglove, was from Johnstown, New York.

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