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Marion Welch (née Foster; April 18, 1851 – July 9, 1935) was the only child of composer Stephen Collins Foster and, together with her daughter, Jessie Rose, was the caretaker of the Stephen S. Foster Memorial Home, located at 3600 Penn Avenue, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, from 1914 until her death in 1935. [3]
Marion Welch (1851-1935) Jane is credited with being the inspiration for Stephen Foster's song "Jeanie With The Light Brown Hair", published in 1854 Jane Denny Foster Wiley ( née McDowell; December 10, 1829 - January 17, 1903) [ 1 ] was the wife of Stephen Foster and the inspiration for his song " Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair ".
Marion Margery Scranton (1884–1960) [5] [6] Florence Seibert ... Marion Foster Welch; Jane McDowell Foster Wiley; See also. List of Pennsylvania suffragists; References
He initiated the revision of the standard reference work on Stephen Foster music – "Songs and Compositions and Arrangements by Stephen Collins Foster 1826-1864" published in 1933. [7] The new reference work, published with the Smithsonian Institution Press was assisted by the Rodgers and Hammerstein Archive of the New York Public Library at ...
Swanee River is a 1939 American biographical musical drama film directed by Sidney Lanfield and starring Don Ameche, Andrea Leeds, Al Jolson, and Felix Bressart.It is a biopic about Stephen Foster, a songwriter from Pittsburgh who falls in love with the South, marries a Southern girl, then is accused of sympathizing when the Civil War breaks out.
Homeless people are a "forgotten community" over the Christmas period, a voluntary group has said. Marion Foster, who chairs Let Them Eat Cake, said it had been the "busiest year" yet for the ...
Jul. 11—FAIRMONT — The public library is adding another service to its roster. It can now offer on-demand 3d printing. "We can have someone come in and say, 'Hey, I'd really like to have this ...
The Bradford County Historical Society documents Foster attending school in nearby Towanda and Athens in 1840 and 1841. The schools were located 5 miles (8 km) from the racetrack. The current annual running of the Camptown Races was replaced by a 6.2-mile (10 km) track covering rough lumbering trails.