![]() She also began to publish her music at that time, spending six weeks in Chicago where she sold her compositions and was well-received.īut, “to everything there is a season,” and that happy season ended. She taught piano lessons, played the organ on Sundays for two local churches, composed music, and even painted ceramics. She and Frank enjoyed the outdoors together and she grew to love the community, often accompanying her husband on patient visits and distributing food to the needy. Carrie and Frank immediately rekindled their relationship and were married in June of 1889.Ĭarrie spent only seven years of her life in Iron County, but she frequently said they were the happiest years of her life. Upon her divorce at age twenty-six, Carrie took her son and traveled to the mining town of Iron River where Frank was working as physician and co-owned a mine with his father. She even visited him during the troubled years of her marriage, telling her husband she was visiting the U.P. ![]() While Carrie loved her son, her marriage to Ed was tumultuous and he divorced her in 1888.Ĭarrie never forgot her first love, Frank, and had been secretly keeping in touch with him through letters. She bore a son whom they named Fredrick and the couple moved to Chicago shortly thereafter. Smith, and when she found out she was pregnant, the two married in December of 1880. ![]() She looked for comfort in the arms of Edward J. When Frank went to medical school–eventually moving with his father to the Upper Peninsula–he left Carrie in Janesville with a broken heart. Frank knew her love for music, and took young Carrie to see American operatic singer Miss Laura Schirmer, which further fueled her passion for music and sparked her dream of songwriting. Bond.įrank was also the son of an affluent doctor and he quickly captured her innocent heart. When she was fourteen years old, Carrie met a young man by the name of Frank L. Later, she took lessons and started writing music as a hobby. The economic depression that followed the end of the war in 1865 led her father to financial ruin and he took his own life when Carrie was just eight years old.Ĭarrie found solace from life’s turmoil in music–teaching herself to play the piano by ear. We do not know much about Carrie’s early life, only that times were hard. ![]() The family lived in Janesville, Wisconsin and the country was still in the beginning years of the Civil War. is Carrie Jacobs-Bond, deemed the “Mother of America” in 1921, and the first great female song composer in the United States.Ĭarrie Minetta Jacobs was born on August 11th, 1862 to Hannibal Jacobs, a family doctor, and his wife Mary. One of the most famous women from the U.P. March is National Women’s History Month, and the Upper Peninsula has been home to countless remarkable women through the decades! ![]()
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