Eunice Gibbs Allyn

Eunice Gibbs Allyn (née, Gibbs; pen names, (multiple); 1847 – June 30, 1916) was an American correspondent, author, songwriter, illustrator, and painter. She meant to become a teacher, but her mother dissuaded her appropriately she remained at home, entering into society, and writing in a quiet mannerism for the local papers though using various pen names in order to avoid displeasing one of her brothers, who did not wish to have a "bluestocking" in the family.

Allyn served as the Washington correspondent for the Chicago Inter Ocean, as capably as a writer for the St. Louis Globe-Democrat and the New York World. She won distinction as an artiste and lecturer. For eight years, she served as president of the Dubuque branch of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU).