Emma L. Ashford Papers, ca. 1890-1930.

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Emma L. Ashford Papers, ca. 1890-1930.

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Music composed by Ashford as well as by others. Ashford's work is in both manuscript and printed form. Most of her works in this collection pertain to Vanderbilt University, as do all the printed works by other composers. Printed works include sheet music and song books; one 45 RPM phonograph record is also included.

1 Hollinger box (.92 linear feet)

Vanderbilt University Library, Jean and Alexander Heard Library

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Vanderbilt University Library, Jean and Alexander Heard Library

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Ashford, Emma Louise, 1850-1930

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Emma Louise Hindle was born Mar. 29, 1850, in Newark, Del., to a musical family of English ancestry. She was musically precocious and by the age of twelve was organist at an Episcopal church in Kewanee, Ill. Her family moved frequently. At one of their musical evenings in Connecticut, when she was seventeen, she met John Ashford, a young engineer and amateur singer from Bath, England. They married soon after and moved to Chicago, Ill., where she becamse the solo alto at St. John's Episcopal Chur...