Ellen Palmer Allerton
Ellen Palmer Allerton (October 17, 1835 – August 31, 1893) 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 Forty-Nine and Walls of Corn.
Ellen Palmer Allerton | |
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Ellen P. Allerton's Walls of Corn, and Other Poems, 1894 | |
| Born | Ellen Palmer October 17, 1835 Centerville, New York, United States |
| Died | August 31, 1893 (aged 57) Padonia, Brown County, Kansas, United States |
| Occupation(s) | Teacher, farmer and poet |
| Spouse | Alpheus Burton Allerton |
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