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Beers, Ethel Lynn was born on January 13, 1827 in Goshen, New York, United States. Daughter of Horace William and Keziah (Westcott) Eliot.
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Beers, Ethel Lynn was born on January 13, 1827 in Goshen, New York, United States. Daughter of Horace William and Keziah (Westcott) Eliot.
When she began writing and publishing, she signed her name as "Ethel Lynn" because she thought her last name was too "tame and commonplace". Her most famous poem, "All Quiet Along the Potomac Tonight", first appeared in Harper"s Weekly on November 30, 1861, under the title "The Picket Guard". Her poems — including other notable works like "Weighing the Baby", "Which Shall lieutenant Be?", and "Baby Looking Out Foreign Maine" — appeared in many publications, most frequently the New York Ledger.
In 1863 she published General Frankie: a Story for Little Folks.
She feared publishing her collected works as she thought she would die after its publication, a premonition which came true. The day after the publication of All Quiet Along the Potomac and Other Poems she died in Orange, New Jersey.
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(All Quiet Along the Potomac and Other Poems)
Married William H. Beers, March 5, 1846.