Minnie McIntyre was born in a suburb of St. Louis, Missouri, in 1872. Her father was killed in an accident when Minnie was eight years old. Her mother moved the family to Kansas City where Minnie lived for twenty-five years. Both in her own name and under pseudonyms, Minnie McIntyre developed a sound repute-tion as a journalist while also writing fiction and poetry.

Minnie became very active in the world of horse shows, both as judge and writer. While writing for several horse show publications, she was appointed editor of Bit and Spur, a publication out of Chicago devoted to news of horse shows. Of Minnie, the December 3, 1905, New York Herald wrote that “as an editor she is known to devotees of the show everywhere as not only a clever writer, but as a capital judge of the fashionable type of horses.”

Widowed after a short marriage to William L. Wallace, Minnie moved to Beloit in 1917 to be with her sister who was also recently widowed. While in Beloit, Minnie wrote a popular gossip column for the Beloit Daily News for 25 years. She also headed the Beloit Professional and Business Women’s Club in its early years., served on the Salvation Army board and was secretary of the Beloit Historical Society. Minnie McIntyre died on June 8, 1959, at the age of 87.