According to the Internet source given below, Eva Mudge (née Genevra Delphine Mudge) was an American vaudeville actress born in Memphis, Michigan.
As a talented child actress, not yet thirteen, she appeared before President Cleveland in the White House in 1894. She made her professional debut at the Whitney Opera House in 1888 and went on to a have successful vaudeville stage career both in America and Europe.
She was also the first recorded female automobile driver obtaining a drivers license in 1898 in New York state. Her first car was a Waverly electric which she drove on the streets of New York City. Mudge may also have been the first female to race a car chosing the gasoline-powered Locomobile.

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	Those of Us Who Try .. DO Part	Article about Mudge family by tappingroots.com
	Genevra Delphine Mudge	Biography by wikipedia.org.