Ellen Palmer Allerton

Ellen Palmer Allerton , was an American poet whose inspiration probably came from her life on farms in rural New York, Wisconsin, and Kansas. She is best remembered for the poems Beautiful Things, The Trail of FortyNine and Walls of Corn.

Ellen Palmer was born in Centerville, New York, the youngest and only daughter among a family of eight children raised by William Palmer and his second wife, Eleanor Knickerbocker. Her father, a farmer, was born in East Guilford, Vermont on November 1, 1786 and her mother, a descendant of Dutch pioneers, on July 10, 1792 at Salisbury, Connecticut. Before she could read or write, Allerton was said to have had the ability to compose poems in her head and later recite them from memory.

Source: Wikipedia