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CLARA LOUISE KELLOGG (1842— )

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Originally appearing in Volume V15, Page 719 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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CLARA See also:LOUISE See also:KELLOGG (1842— )  , See also:American See also:singer, was See also:born at Sumterville, See also:South Carolina, in See also:July 1842, and was educated in New See also:York for the musical profession, singing first in See also:opera there in 1861 . Her See also:fine See also:soprano See also:voice and See also:artistic gifts soon made her famous . She appeared as prima donna in See also:Italian opera in See also:London, and at concerts, in 1867 and 1868; and from that See also:time till 1887 was one of the leading public singers . She appeared at intervals in London, but was principally engaged in See also:America . In 1874 she organized an opera See also:company which was widely known in the See also:United States, and her enterprise and See also:energy in directing it were remarkable . In 1887 she married Carl Strakosch, and retired from the profession .

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