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EMMA ABBOTT (1849-1891)

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Originally appearing in Volume V01, Page 26 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ABBOTT (1849-1891)  , See also:American See also:singer, was See also:born at See also:Chicago and studied in See also:Milan and See also:Paris . She had a See also:fine See also:soprano See also:voice, and appeared first in See also:opera in See also:London under See also:Colonel Mapleson's direction at Covent See also:Garden, also singing at important concerts . She organized an opera See also:company known by her name, and toured extensively in the See also:United States, where she had a See also:great reputation . In 1873 she married E . J . Wetherell . She died at See also:Salt See also:Lake See also:City on the 5th of See also:January 1891 .

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