Mary Hayden Pike

Mary Hayden Pike (née Green) (30 November 1824 – 15 January 1908) American author born in Eastport, Maine to Elijah Dix Green and Hannah Caflin Hayden. She was educated in Calais, Maine and acquired religious convictions at the early age of twelve when she went through baptism in an icy stream. She graduated from the Charlestown Female Seminary (Massachusetts) in 1843. In 1846 she married Frederick A. Pike who later was elected to the 37th United States Congress.