Introduction

Lida was the daugh­ter of min­is­ter Hen­ry Mil­ton Keck and Har­ri­et Dun­ham.

She is re­mem­bered as a writ­er and poet, and news­pa­per col­umn­ist.

Works

Lida wrote his­tor­ic­al es­says, po­ems, lyr­ics for ma­ny hymns, and sev­er­al books. Her works in­clude:

• Silvern Sec­ret, or, The Au­to­bi­og­ra­phy of a Sil­ver Dol­lar (Ham­il­ton, Ohio: Re­pub­li­can Pub­lish­ing, 1894)
• The Life and Works of Paul Lau­rence Dun­bar (Mem­phis, Ten­nes­see: J. L. Ni­chols, 1907)
• Know Thy Neigh­bor (J. L. Ni­chols: 1909)
• The Mys­ter­ies of Life, or, The Re­ve­la­tions of Fac­es, Fig­ures and For­tunes (Na­per­ville, Il­li­nois: J. L. Ni­chols, 1931)