(b Dover, NH, 1845; d Boston, MA, Jan 1924). American soprano. After singing in local churches in Dover from 1865 to 1874, she studied voice with Mrs. J. Rametti and Professor O’Neill in Boston, where she performed in several recitals. In 1876 she made her New York début at the Steinway Hall. The same year in Boston she sang at the Centennial Musical Festival, organized and conducted fifty girls in the operetta Laila, the Fairy Queen, and married Lieutenant Charles L. Mitchell. After attending the School of Vocal Arts, she studied and graduated at New England Conservatory in 1879. For the following nine years she was music director at Bloomfield Street Church, and in 1882 she made her début in Philadelphia. From 1882 to 1885 she was “Prima donna soprano” with James Bergen’s Star Concerts when Marie Selika also performed as a star. In 1886 she founded the Nellie Brown Mitchell Concert Company, and from ...