Recording Pioneers

Alice Cunningham FLETCHER1838 - 1923   PIONEER    PARENTS    LIFE    NOTES    LABELS    PHOTOS    THANK YOU

PIONEER

Alice Cunningham FLETCHER

nationality American
occupation ethnologist/anthropologist
birth 13/15 March 1838, Havana, CUBA
baptism
death 6 April 1923, Washington DC
burial
marriage .... <1859>, Caribbean

Francis LA FLESCHE

b. 25 Dec 1857, Omaha, Nebraska
d. 5 Sep 1932, Omaha Indian community near Macy, Nebraska


PARENTS

father Thomas Gilman FLETCHER

b. 14 June 1801, Alstead, Cheshire Co. New Hampshire
d. 7 Oct 1839, New York, NY or .. Nov 1839, Morristown, NJ graduate of Dartmouth College and a lawyer in New York City

mother(1)1): Almira BARNES

b. ........, CT
d. .... 1835, ............

mother(2)2): Lucia Adeline JENKS

b. ........., Boston, MS
d. .............

remark Lucia Adeline JENKS FLETCHER later married ........ GARDNER
children
  • Alice

    b. 3/15 March 1838, Havana, CUBA
    d. 6 April 1923, Washington DC


LIFE



NOTES

  • Alice Cunningham Fletcher (WIKIPEDIA)
  • Notable american women: a biographical dictionary by Edward T. James and Janet Wilson Jame, pp. 630-633 (online)
  • Alice Cunningham Fletcher, Living With Native Americans by Beth Godwin (online article)
  • Alice Fletcher's Notes on the Earliest Recordings of Korean Music by Robert C. Provine (University of Maryland) online article
  • Alice Cunningham Fletcher, Anthropologist and Indian Rights Reformer by Rebecca Hancock Welch (PhD dissertation, George Washington Univ., 1980, 11).
  • A Stranger in Her Native Land: Alice Fletcher and the American Indians by Joan T. Mark (University of Nebraska Press, 1988)
  • Songcatchers: in search of the world's music by Mickey Hart with K. M. Kostyal (National Geographic, Washington, D.C., 2003)
  • The Real Song Catchers: American Women Pioneers of Ethnomusicology. Selected Bibliography by Carl Rahkonen (Indiana University of Pennsylvania, 2003) online article


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