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Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography/Arey, Harriet Ellen

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Edition of 1900.

1508527Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography — Arey, Harriet Ellen

AREY, Harriet Ellen (Grannis), author, b. in Cavendish, Vt., 14 April, 1819. Her father, John Grannis, was a member of the Canadian parliament at the breaking out of the rebellion of 1837, and was obliged to flee to the United States, where he afterward held positions of trust. The daughter became a school-teacher in Cleveland, and a contributor to periodicals. She married Oliver Arey in 1848, and edited the “Youth's Casket” and the “Home Monthly.” Her principal work is “Household Songs and other Poems” (New York, 1854).