Cornelia (“Nellie”) Pomeroy Bangs Skelton DePue (August 8, 1855 - November 23, 1911)[1] was an American composer,[2] pianist,[3] singer and vocal coach who toured the United States as a pianist.
[4] Skelton was born in Lacon, Illinois, to Harriet Cornelia Pomeroy and Mark Bangs, a judge.
[8] By 1896, she had formed her own concert company with her husband Elmer De Pue, a tenor.
[9] She also taught piano at the Armour Institute[10] and at the Soper School of Oratory,[11] both in Chicago, and toured for the International Young People’s Lecture Bureau as a pianist.
[12] Skelton’s music was published by Clayton F. Summy [13] and Theodore Presser.