Simmons, Emma Kate 3.mar.1850-8.mar.1926 USA NY, Troy - New York Manhattan
14.sep.1882 accompanied by Mr. and Mrs. Isaac How of New York she was robbed on a carriage ride in Green Mountain at Mount Desert Island Maine, she donated the proceeds from her musical compositions to charity and from the sale of the 'Racquet galop' endowed a permanent bed in St Luke's Hospital, 1900-1920 residing with husband and 3-6 servants (housemaid, chambermaid, kitchenmaid, ladiesmaid, parlormaid, laundress, waitress, cook, butler) at 4 East 36th Street Manhattan, 1926 at 270 Park Avenue, buried at Green Wood Cemetery Brooklyn ; daughter of banker Joseph Ferris Simmons (NY, Sandlake 11.sep.1817-6.jun.1879 Troy) and Mary Sophia Gleason (Vermont 1817-5.jul.1872 Troy) ; 1883 she married industrial capitalist 'father of trusts' Charles Ranlett Flint (Maine, Thomaston 24.jan.1850-26.feb.1934 Washington DC) 1880 president of United States Electric Lighting Co. and 1924-1930 on the board of directors of IBM

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[] El Fresco. Waltz. Piano
pub C. H. Ditson & Co., New York 1871
pub Charles Sheard & Co., London 1881
pub Hachette & Co., Paris

[] Invincible galop. Piano
dedication Miss Lotty Niven
pub C. H. Ditson & Co., New York 1873

[] Racquet galop Piano
also arr for guitar by W. L. Hayden
also arr for violin and piano by L. Winner
pub Oliver Ditson & Co., Boston 1878
pub Charles Sheard & Co., London 1881
pub Edwin Ashdown Ltd., London
pub Augener & Co., London
pub Hachette & Co., Paris
pub Nordisk Musikforlag, Copenhagen (arr for piano 4-hands by J. L. Gersoni)
pub Carl Fischer, New York (arr for orchestra)

[] Gigue fantastique. Piano
pub Oliver Ditson & Co., Boston 1879

[] Berceuse (Cradle song). Piano
pub Oliver Ditson, Boston 1879

[] From east to west waltz. Piano
pub Oliver Ditson, Boston 1879

[] Racquet quickstep. Piano
pub Oliver Ditson, Boston 1880

[] Good bye. Vocal waltz
words F. W. Green, arranged by Alfred Lee
pub Charles Sheard & Co., London 1881

[] Lawn tennis galop. Piano
pub Charles Sheard & Co., London 1881

[] Poste. Piano
pub Hachette & Co., Paris

[] Royal fanfare. Galop. Piano
pub Carl Fisher, New York (arr for orchestra)

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