ound some wonderful info on her by David Hoehl here : "contralto (1890 - June 4, 1960). Amy Ellerman was born in Yankton, South Dakota. She began as a pianist before turning to voice; among her teachers were Gemma Bellincioni and Herbert Witherspoon. The outbreak of World War I aborted a contract with the Dresden Opera, but she was soloist at the Bethlehem-Bach Festival, the Bach Cantata Club, the New York Oratorio Society, and the Chautauqua Lake Festival and with the New York Symphony Orchestra under Walter Damrosch. As a recitalist, she appeared at New York's Town and Aeolian Halls, and she was another participant in Edison's Tone Tests. Ellerman also sang with Betsy Lane Shepherd and Gladys Rice as "The Homestead Trio." In 1917 she married a fellow concert singer, Calvin Coxe, in Lead, South Dakota, where her brother was State Mine Inspector. (The next paragraph in the Lead Daily Call's column announcing the nuptuals recounted how someone had driven a Ford car "filled with carp and suckers from the big dam" into town and "cleaned up a bunch of money" by selling the carp at from 10 to 35 cents each and the suckers at two for five cents, offering "persons trying out the war ration scheme an opportunity to save on a good dinner"!) Although her recording career was brief, she remained an active performer for years after her time with Edison: for instance, on January 16, 1931, she participated in a joint recital with the Gloria Trumpeters sponsored by the Epsilon Chapter of Sigma Alpha Iota (of which she was an honorary member) at the Ithica Conservatory, and in 1936 she sang at Town Hall. For more than a quarter century until a few years before her death, she was contralto soloist at the First Presbyterian Church in New York City. In later years, she was voice coach to film stars including Irene Dunne

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	DAHR: Amy Ellerman	List of 138 historic recordings from 1916 to 1929.