Minnie Bell Sharp Adney
Minnie Bell Sharp Adney (born January 12, 1865 in Woodstock , New Brunswick , † April 11, 1937 in Woodstock, New Brunswick) was a Canadian singer and music teacher.
Life
She was the daughter of the Canadian fruit grower and tree nursery owner Francis Peabody Sharp (born September 3, 1823 in Northampton, Carleton County, New Brunswick, † December 12, 1903 in Woodstock) and his wife Maria Shaw (born May 12, 1830, † 29. March 1904). The couple had 7 other children, but the three firstborn children died before Minnie Bell was born.
Minnie Bell Sharp grew up in Woodstock and went to New York City in 1883, where she received vocal and piano training. She studied piano with the German piano teacher Dr. William Mason and Gonzalo Nunez as well as singing with Ange Albert Pattou and Frank Tubbs. In New York she lived in the boarding house of Ruth Shaw, the mother of her future husband Edwin Tappan Adney . After completing her training, she taught as a music teacher in New York, and later also in Fredericton and Woodstock. In 1893 she founded the Victoria Conservatory of Music in Victoria, British Columbia, which she ran until 1900.
Minnie Bell Sharp was a confident, eccentric, and stubborn woman. She spent 17 days in prison in 1897 because she did not pay school fees. She then tried the arrest, which she won. The verdict confirmed that she had been wrongly arrested.
In 1899 she married Edwin Tappan Adney. Adney was a journalist and ethnologist. The couple had a son in 1902, Francis Glenn Adney (born July 9, 1902 in Woodstock, New Brunswick). Like his mother, he became a musician, but achieved little fame as a jazz pianist in the USA.
Upon returning to her hometown of Woodstock, she founded the Woodstock School of Music, which she directed for nearly 20 years.
In 1919, Minnie Bell Sharp ran as a Conservative candidate for the Victoria-Carleton District in the federal election. At this point, women were allowed to vote, but not run. Her name did not appear on the ballot because her application for nomination went unexplained. Minnie Bell Sharp suspected that her lawyers had been bribed and made the request go away.
She ran again in 1921 and 1925, after women had been allowed to run for office from 1924. However, it received only 84 votes.
Minnie Bell Sharp died on April 11, 1937 in Woodstock and is buried there in Upper Woodstock Cemetery.
Individual evidence
- ^ Entry on Francis Peabody Sharp on the page My Genealogy ( My Genealogy ), accessed December 1, 2013
- ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from July 14, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. ; accessed on December 22, 2013
- ↑ Biographical explanations of the exhibit Minnie Bell Adney campaign poster from 1925, accessed on the ArchivesCanada homepage ( Memento of the original from September 24, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 'on December 5, 2013
- ↑ Entry on the Find a Grave page ; accessed on December 22, 2013
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Sharp Adney, Minnie Bell |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Sharp, Minnie Bell |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Canadian musician and music teacher |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 12, 1865 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Woodstock , New Brunswick , Canada |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 11, 1937 |
| Place of death | Woodstock , New Brunswick , Canada |