Martha Capps Oliver

Background

Oliver, Martha Capps was born in 1845 in Jacksonville, Illinois, United States. Daughter of of Joseph and Sarah (Reid) Capps.

Education

Graduate Illinois Conference Female College (Illinois Woman’s College), 1862.

Career

Compiler: A Year of Sacred Song, 1895. A Year of Good Wishes, 1895. ’Round the Year with the Poets, 1900.

Author: The Story of Columbus Told in Rhyme (with Ida Scott Taylor McKinney), 1893.

Lift Maine Higher, 1901. Heather Bells, 1901; Lift Up Your Heads, 1901.

An Easter Legend, 1902. Resurgam, 1902. Home: Jacksonville, Illinois Deceased.

Achievements

• Martha Capps Oliver has been listed as a notable author by Marquis Who's Who.

Connections

Married William A. Oliver, December 28, 1865.

Spouse:

William A. Oliver