Calvin Woolsey | |
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Birth name | Calvin Lee Woolsey |
Born | December 26, 1883[1] Tinney's Point, Missouri, U.S.[2] |
Died | November 12, 1946[2] Braymer, Missouri, U.S.[2] |
Genres | Ragtime |
Occupation(s) | Physician, composer and pianist |
Instrument | Piano |
Years active | 1909 – 1918 |
Calvin Woolsey (December 26, 1883 – November 12, 1946) was an American composer, pianist, and physician.
Woolsey was the middle of three children born to Napoleon and Gertrude Woolsey. Woolsey was a descendant of George (Joris) Woolsey, one of the earliest settlers of New Amsterdam, and Thomas Cornell.[3]
Woolsey was raised in Tinney Grove, Missouri, just south of the city of Braymer. He earned a medical degree from the University of Missouri and did his post-graduate work at Harvard Medical School. He joined the Army Medical Corps during World War I and attained the rank of 1st Lieutenant.[1]
He composed rags in the folk ragtime style that was popular around 1900. He sold two of these to Jerome H. Remick and self-published several others. He also published a waltz and a march.
He died at home, in 1946, of a coronary thrombosis.[1]