About Marie Townsend
Lived 1851 – 1912 (aged 60–61). Marie Townsend was a composer, writer and opera composer.
Mary Mansfield Townsend Allen (July 16, 1851 – July 2, 1912) was an American author and composer who published her works under the names Marie Townsend and Mansfield Townsend.
Townsend was born in Canton, Pennsylvania, to Mary Ann Sharpe and Herman Townsend. She married William LeBaron Gibbs Allen on November 2, 1869, in Kidder, Missouri. include:
Opera
Hawaii
Plays
Bobs and Nabobs: A Domestic Drama in Four Acts Ceramics, a Summer Idyll: An Original Comedy in Five Acts
Songs
"Hammock Song" "Summer Days"
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American author and composer
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Marie Townsend was born in 1851.
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Marie Townsend died in 1912.
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Marie Townsend was a composer, writer and opera composer.
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