Mrs. Amy C. Roper was born in Monterey, July 14, 1850. She received her education in the Allentown Public Schools. In 1865-66. at the Pennsylvania Collegiate, at the Allentown Academy in 1866-67. Took a music course at College Hall at Collegeville, in 1867-68. Teacher of music in Allentown in 1869-70-71. Taught school at Spring Creek in 1873-74- Taught school at Slatington, 1874-75. Married in 1876. Received a diploma in the Chicago School of Advertising 1899. In 1900. Took a Short-Story Course at the National Institute at Washington. A course in journalism under Murat Halstead, 1901-02, and received diploma. Contributed trade articles to a trade paper of Ohio "The Business Age." Received from The Designer a prize for a business article entitled: 'What Women are Doing." Contributed poems to the Simmons Magazine, of New York.

January, 1911, was published the poem entitled "Cupid's Bank." March 1911, poem "Woman Suffrage". Short Stories contributed to Authors Magazine of Detroit, Michigan. Became a member of the National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution, February 3. 1903. In the local chapter of the Liberty Bell Chapter, at Allentown. Served as Vice-Regent and Chairman of Year-Book Committee for 1910-11. Also a member of the National Society Patriotic Women of American, of New York later became a member of the Lehigh County Historical Society; finally in 1904 was appointed one of the Executors of the D. D. Roper Estate.