bessieabott

Bessie Abott (LOC)

from The Library of Congress

• pennylrichardsca (now at ipernity) said:

  Bessie Pickens Abott (originally Abbott, her mother's maiden name; 1878-1919) was an American operetta singer, born Ogdensburg, NY, once part of a Vaudeville act with her twin sister Jessie. Bessie was singing with Caruso in San Francisco's Grand Opera House when the 1906 earthquake happened. She retired from performing after she married sculptor T. Waldo Story in 1912 (a bit of a scandal--his first wife, living in Rome, had long refused him a divorce, and claimed the marriage to Abott was illegal). She was widowed in 1915. Bessie Abott died in 1919, at the age of 40, "after an illness of several years."

• Richard Norton said:

  I added her to Wikipedia: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bessie_Pickens_Abott