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(Above photos, Carrie Jacobs-Bond, 1900 & ca 1940)
America's First Great Woman Popular Song Composer

"The only thing that seems to me at all remarkable about my life is that I was nearly thirty-two before I ever even thought of having a career.

In Janesville, Wisconsin where I was born in 1862, I was early given some instruction in music and painting, but anything that I could turn to in case of need was not taught me. It was the necessity of supporting myself and my little son that made me a writer of songs.

It is true that even as a little girl, when I thought of the future, I always thought of myself as a songwriter."

So said Carrie Jacobs-Bond in 1927 in writing her biography, The Roads Of Melody.

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If ever a person foresaw their own destiny, it was that little girl in Wisconsin. Carrie Jacobs-Bond went on to become America's premier popular songwriter for a period of several decades. She wrote some of the most lasting "heart and home" songs tha