Agnes Garlinda Leist Beebe (December 13, 1874Many sources, including her gravestone and her 1923 passport application, give 1876 as her year of birth. However, 1874 is the year given in her application for Social Security, and that matches her age in the federal censuses in 1880, 1910, and 1940. The 1900 census gives her birthdate as December 1875. The 1930 federal census gives her age as 51, indicating a later birthdate; and the 1935 Florida state census gives her age as 54, indicating an even later date. – August 30, 1941) was an American singer and voice teacher, based in Chicago and Miami.
Early life and education Agnes Leist was born in Shelbyville, Illinois and raised in Kingman, Kansas, the daughter of Simon Leist and Mary E. Bugh Leist. She graduated from the Arey Conservatory of Music. Career Beebe lived in Wichita as a young woman, and toured the lyceum circuit as a singer. She was a noted singer and voice teacher based in Chicago and Miami. As a soprano, she sang in operas, at concerts and community events, and as an oratorio soloist. She taught at the Wichita Conservatory and at the Girvin Institute of Musical Art."Girvin Institute of Musical Art" The Music News 19(1)(May 13, 1927): 44. She taught large weekly classes of voice students, Some of her students became professional singers themselves."Agnes Leist Beebe" The Music News 19(19)(May 13, 1927): 40.
Personal life Leist married Canadian-born piano tuner George Lansing Beebe in 1894, in Kansas. They had a son, and lived in Miami part-time until the late 20s, when they moved to Miami permanently. She died in 1941, at the age of 66, in Miami. References