American operatic contralto singer, born in Chicago; from a position as a church-choir singer, she went to one in the Chicago Church Choir Opera Company, singing as Little Buttercup in Pinafore, with great success. At sixteen years of age she sang with Caroline Richings; in 1882 sang Siebel to Patti’s Marguerite in the Mapleson Company in New York; was with the American Opera Company from 1886 till its dissolution; and has been the leading contralto singer with “the Bostonians.” She married Will J. Davis, manager of the Columbia Theater, Chicago.
