Thursby, Emma
From Astro-Databank
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| Birthname | Emma Cecilia Thursby | ||
| born on | 21 February 1845 at 04:00 (= 04:00 AM ) | ||
| Place | Brooklyn NY, USA, 40n38, 73w56 | ||
| Timezone | LMT m73w56 (is local mean time) | ||
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| Astrology data |   02°39'   21°52 Asc. 08°49'
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Biography
American singer and voice teacher, quite popular as a concert artist in the late 1870s and 1880s as she toured the US, Canada and Europe.
In 1876 she performed at the Brooklyn Academy of Music on the same evening that Mark Twain read from his writings. She performed at the Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia in 1876. In May 1878 she made her debut in London at St. James' Hall. Beginning in 1894 she taught voice. She suffered a stroke that paralyzed one side of her body in 1924 and died in New York on July 4, 1931, age 86.
Events
- Health : Medical diagnosis 1924 (Stroke)
- Death, Cause unspecified 4 July 1931 (Age 86 in New York City)
Source Notes
Sy Scholfield quotes Richard McCandless Gipson's book, 'The Life of Emma Thursby, 1845-1931' (1940), p. 11: The second child, a girl, was born at four o'clock in the morning of February 21st, 1845.'
Categories
- Vocation : Entertain/Music : Music teacher
- Vocation : Entertain/Music : Vocalist/Opera
- Diagnoses : Major Diseases : Stroke
- Personal : Death : Long life more than 80 yrs
