Clara Louise Kellogg was an American operatic dramatic soprano a range of two and one-half octaves. Her voice in youth was a high soprano with a range from C to E flat. With age it lost some of the highest notes but gained in power and richness.
Emma Lucy Ann Gates Bowen was an American opera singer and later the wife of Albert E. Bowen, a member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. She was often referred to as Lucy Gates and after her marriage as Lucy Gates Bowen or Lucy Bowen.
Gena Branscombe was a Canadian pianist, composer, music educator and choir conductor who lived and worked in the United States.
Alice May Bates Rice was a soprano singer, born in the U.S. state of Massachusetts.
Emma Aline Osgood (1849-1911) was an American soprano remembered for her performances in oratorio.
Birdice Blye-Richardson better known as Birdie Blye, was an American pianist. At 5 year old she was "an infant prodigy" who was taught by the best teachers in the United States and Europe. At the age of 10, she gave concerts in London and other European cities. She was the only American who ever played at so early an age in orchestral concerts.
Clara Maria Brinkerhoff was an American singer and musical educator. She sang in public while still a child, her voice and culture attracting the attention of the highest and most critical circles. Her father, Mr. Rolph, would not consent to her going on stage as a professional singer, so only the occasional concert employed her voice when she was still young.
Nancy Rebecca Albaugh Leatherwood was an American club woman and wife of U.S. Representative from Utah, Elmer O. Leatherwood.
Adele "Delia" Lindley Straup was an American educator and club woman.
Hannah T. King was a 19th-century British-born American writer and pioneer. Converting to Mormonism while in England, her family emigrated to the American state of Utah in 1853 where she became endeared to the people of that state. She was the author of Songs of the Heart, several poems, as well as writings addressed to young readers. King was the last woman sealed to Brigham Young. She died in 1886.
Mary Howe was an American operatic soprano, well known in Germany in the 1880s and 1890s. She inherited her musical talents from her father, a choir leader, and chorister, and received early training from a brother, who was a pianist. Howe retired from the stage in 1905 and died in 1952.
Lillie Berg was an American musician and musical educator.
Minnie Mary Lee was a pen name of Julia Amanda Sargent Wood, a 19th-century American sentimental author, of poems, stories, sketches and novels, who sometimes also wrote as Mrs. Julia A. A. Wood. She began writing very early in life, but did not publish in book form until she was in her forties. The Heart of Myrrha Lake, Or, Into the Light of Catholicity ; Hubert's Wife: a Story for You ; The Brown House at Duffield: a Story of Life without and within the Fold ; and The Story of Annette and her Five Dolls: Told to dear little Catholic Children were her published works. A convert to Roman Catholicism, Wood's novels were on Catholic themes.
Florence Frances Huberwald was an American singer, teacher, suffragist, and national leader of the women's movement. She was a charter member of the Woman Suffrage Party; and the co-founder and associate president of the New Orleans College of Music.
Katherine Call Simonds was an American musician, dramatic soprano, composer, songwriter, and social reformer. She gave entire concert programs of her own songs, conducted many choruses and did much general musical work. She was widely known by the songs she wrote and the unusual concerts she gave, her programs consisting entirely of works written by her, both words and music.
Harriet Lane Huntress was an American civil servant. She served as the Deputy Superintendent of Public Instruction in New Hampshire, being the first woman in New England appointed to such a position. She was also prominent in the civic and social life of the state. The Harriet Lane Huntress dormitory for female students at Keene Normal School was named in her honor.
Beatrice Gjertsen Bessesen was an American operatic soprano. She was the president of the Twin City Music and Dramatic Club. Bessesen sang with the St. Olaf Choir and toured with it in Norway. She made successful concert tours in the U.S. and Europe, appearing with various European opera companies. She sang in practically all the leading centers of Europe, and was the prima donna in many big operas. She was a strong factor in developing cultural and artistic appreciation among Norwegian Minnesotans. She is the namesake of the Bessesen Building, which is on the National Register of Historic Places listings in Minnesota.
Nellie A. Hope was an American violinist, music teacher, and orchestra conductor. She founded and conducted the first women's orchestra directed by a woman in the Twin Cities area, "Miss Hope's Ladies' Orchestra". The first orchestra at Macalester College was established by Hope. In Saint Paul, Minnesota, Hope was active in local music circles, her studios at the Chamber of Commerce Building being the center of a busy musical life.
Rev. Emma Pow Bauder was an American evangelist, missionary, reformer, and author. Affiliated with the Church of the United Brethren in Christ in Michigan since 1879, she soon thereafter relocated to the San Francisco Bay Area, where she was also active with the Woman's Christian Temperance Union (W.C.T.U.), the largest women's organization in the U.S. during the Gilded Age.
