Amy Mason (Rhodes) Blish was brought to Illinois by her parents, when an infant. Her father located on a farm at Bunker Hill, south of Buda, Illinois. Here she attended the local schools, until failing health compelled her father to quit farming and the family removed to Buda.

She finished her education at Providence, Rhode Island, and aat once began teaching, which she followed for ten years, during most of which time she was first assistant in the high schools of Buda, Sheffield and Cambridge, Illinois. Subsequent to her marriage she was an active participant in the social, charitable and literary life of Kewanee.

She was a member of the Ladies Reading Club, which has just celebrated its tenth anniversary; was the organizer and for several years Regent of the Kewanee Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution; and for fifteen years was an officer and one of the managers of the Dorcas Society, an organization to aid the sick, destitute and worthy poor, which was supported by voluntary contributions from charitable citizens of the city, and which was of great benefit to the community.