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Elsie Barge (October 12, 1898 – December 16, 1962) was an American pianist, music educator, and clubwoman.

Early life

Elsie Thomas Barge was born in Cordele, Georgia and raised in Brookhaven, Mississippi,[1][2] the daughter of Thomas Cicero Barge and Laura Douglas Wilkins Barge. Her father was a businessman.[3][4] Both of her parents were from Georgia. Her grandfather James Madison Barge was a Confederate States Army veteran of the American Civil War. As a young woman, she performed with her younger sister Frances, a violinist.[5]

Barge graduated from Brookhaven High School in 1914.[6] She studied piano with Theodor Bohlmann of the Cincinnati Conservatory of Music,[7] and with Harold von Mickwitz and Rudolph Ganz in Chicago.[8]

Career

Barge was a concert pianist and performed with the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra under Eugène Ysaÿe.[9] She accompanied singers including Frances Ingram.[5][10] She was a piano teacher at the Chicago Musical College,[11] and at Stuart Hall in Virginia.[8] She ran a music school,[12] was a Baptist church music director,[13] and arranged and performed in musical programs in St. Petersburg, Florida, from 1928 into the 1930s.[14][15]

Later in life, Barge taught music in the schools of Brookhaven.[16] She was also a speaker for the Mississippi Agricultural and Industrial Board.[17] She organized the Fine Artists Series in Brookhaven, and founded the town's music club.[3] She was active in the Mississippi Federation of Business and Professional Women's Clubs,[18][19] and the Mississippi Federation of Music Clubs.[20][21] A scholarship to attend the latter federation's Transylvania Music Camp was named for Barge.[3]

Personal life

Elsie Barge married twice, first to Scottish-born Chicago press agent Gardner Frederick Wilson in 1925.[1][22] They had a daughter, Patrycia (1926–2000).[23] She married again to chiropractor Morris Cook Hennington Sr.[24] Elsie Barge Hennington died in 1962, aged 64 years, at a hospital in Jackson, Mississippi.[16][25]

References

  1. ^ a b "Griefs and Thrills of the Runaway Bride's Solo Honeymoon". The Cincinnati Enquirer. 1925-03-01. p. 122. Retrieved 2021-01-29 – via Newspapers.com.
  2. ^ "Lovely Tribute to Elsie Barge". Brookhaven Semi Weekly Leader. March 5, 1921. p. 4. Retrieved January 29, 2021 – via NewspaperArchive.com.
  3. ^ a b c "Hennington Funeral Held in Brookhaven". Clarion-Ledger. 1962-12-19. p. 8. Retrieved 2021-01-30 – via Newspapers.com.
  4. ^ "Barge Services Held Downstate". Clarion-Ledger. 1940-05-15. p. 7. Retrieved 2021-01-31 – via Newspapers.com.
  5. ^ a b "Miss Elsie Barge, Artist, Presents Musical Program at Baptist Church". Brookhaven Semi Weekly Leader. January 14, 1920. p. 4. Retrieved January 29, 2021 – via NewspaperArchive.com.
  6. ^ "Brookhaven to Honor Class of '14". Clarion-Ledger. 1954-10-17. p. 9. Retrieved 2021-01-30 – via Newspapers.com.
  7. ^ "At the Cincinnati Conservatory". The Musical Monitor. 6: 677. August 1917.
  8. ^ a b "Elsie Barge". Music News. 14: 28. March 10, 1922.
  9. ^ "Second Number Whitworth Artist Course 1920-'21". Brookhaven Semi Weekly Leader. February 5, 1921. p. 4. Retrieved January 29, 2021 – via NewspaperArchive.com.
  10. ^ "Frances Ingram Well Advertised". Musical Courier. 81: 44. December 2, 1920.
  11. ^ "Chicago Summer Master Schools Open with Large Enrollments". Musical Courier. 87: 44. July 5, 1923.
  12. ^ "Elsie Barge Has Recital". Tampa Bay Times. 1929-04-14. p. 12. Retrieved 2021-01-29 – via Newspapers.com.
  13. ^ "Elsie Barge Opens Her Music School for Second Season". Tampa Bay Times. 1929-10-06. p. 6. Retrieved 2021-01-29 – via Newspapers.com.
  14. ^ "Program Tonight at Pennsylvania" The Evening Independent (March 4, 1930): 5. via Google News
  15. ^ "Musical Program is Presented to Senior High School Classes". The Evening Independent. February 21, 1929. p. 4. Retrieved January 29, 2021 – via Google News.
  16. ^ a b "Dr. Elsie Hennington is Buried". Enterprise-Journal. 1962-12-18. p. 7. Retrieved 2021-01-30 – via Newspapers.com.
  17. ^ "Magnolia Planning Hospitality Week". Clarion-Ledger. 1951-05-23. p. 17. Retrieved 2021-01-30 – via Newspapers.com.
  18. ^ "District Four, BPW Club, Holds Annual Meeting". Clarion-Ledger. 1950-10-27. p. 11. Retrieved 2021-01-30 – via Newspapers.com.
  19. ^ "Magnolia B. & P. W. Club Officers". Enterprise-Journal. 1951-07-11. p. 1. Retrieved 2021-01-30 – via Newspapers.com.
  20. ^ "Music Festival is Underway at Woman's College". Hattiesburg American. 1951-03-03. p. 12. Retrieved 2021-01-30 – via Newspapers.com.
  21. ^ "147 Young Pianists Register for Festival". Clarion-Ledger. 1952-03-07. p. 6. Retrieved 2021-01-30 – via Newspapers.com.
  22. ^ "G. F. Wilson, 54, Game Commission Adman, is Dead". The Tampa Tribune. 1951-03-28. p. 2. Retrieved 2021-01-30 – via Newspapers.com.
  23. ^ "On Honeymoon". Chicago Tribune. 1946-07-15. p. 19. Retrieved 2021-01-30.
  24. ^ "Dr. M. C. Hennington Sr. Dies". Enterprise-Journal. 1965-03-22. p. 8. Retrieved 2021-01-30 – via Newspapers.com.
  25. ^ "Dr. Hennington Dies Sunday". Columbian-Progress. 1962-12-20. p. 16. Retrieved 2021-01-30 – via Newspapers.com.
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