The Rose of Old St. Louis

Mary C. Johnson Dillon was an American novelist. She was the daughter of Herman Merrills Johnson, who was President of Dickinson College from 1860 to 1868. Mary was the first woman to receive an honorary degree from Dickinson College in 1908. She wrote as Mary Dillon. Her works include: The Rose of Old St. Louis (1904), In Old Bellaire (1906), The Leader (1906), The Patience of John Morland (1909), Miss Livingston's Companion (1911), Comrades (1918) and The American (1919).