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Belle Yeaton Renfrew
Belle Yeaton Renfrew (born December 11, 1872 – November 22, 1963) was an American musician, and conductor of the all-woman Bostonia Orchestra. Early lifeAugusta Belle Yeaton was born in Chelsea, Massachusetts, the daughter of Charles B. Yeaton and Mary Augusta Yeaton. Her father was a Union Army veteran of the American Civil War.[1] CareerBelle Yeaton Renfrew was conductor of the all-woman Bostonia Orchestra,[2][3] which played in Boston and toured in the United States and Canada between 1904[4] and 1924.[5][6][7] She also played trombone[8][9] in the Bostonia Brass Quartet, with sisters Grace Mae Morse and Alice Florence Morse on first and second horns, and various women on cornet, including a third Morse sister, Ella.[4][10] A reviewer in New Jersey in 1911 commented that "the conducting of Belle Yeaton Renfrew was a revelation to many who attended. She was graceful in attitude but at the same time brought out charming effects with the greatest of precision."[11] Personal lifeBelle Yeaton married jeweler William Renfrew in 1892. They lived in Watertown, Massachusetts, and had a son, Howard William Renfrew (1893-1982). By 1929 she was remarried to a fellow musician, violinist Frederick Louis Mahn.[12] She died in 1963, aged 90 years, in Brookline, Massachusetts.[13] References
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