Grace Chadbourne

Grace Runnion Wassall Chadbourne[1] (1870 – Jun 9, 1919)  was an American composer,[2] pianist,[3] and singer.

[8] She also attended Oscar Seagle's Summer Music Colony in Schroon Lake, New York, and performed as an accompanist, a solo singer, and in a vocal quartet.

[9] Chadbourne experienced what she described as a "nervous breakdown" in February 1909 and at the suggestion of a friend, turned to Christian Science, which she believed healed her.

[10] In September 1909, her first husband Joseph Wassall drowned in a yacht accident on Lake Michigan.

Their daughter Ellen had lived with Wassall, and when he died, she petitioned the court to transfer guardianship to their housekeeper rather than her mother.