Sarah Anne McGarvey c1914

Randolph Hollingsworth (she/her) Contribution
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Sarah Anne McGarvey (3 June 1865 - 20 June 1951) was a professor of piano at Hamilton College. McGarvey had studied piano at the National Conservatory of Music of America in New York City and was a pupil of Rafael Joseffy there. She also studied with Moritz Moszkowski in Berlin. She was a music teacher at Miss McElhinny's School as early as 1898 and by 1903 she had been hired at Hamilton College. She is listed with the Hamilton College delegation marching in the 1916 suffrage parade in Lexington. Photo is snipped from the Hamilton College section of the yearbook, "The Crimson," published by The Senior Classes of Transylvania University, The College of the Bible, and Hamilton College, Lexington, Kentucky. Volume 16. May 1914. Lexington, Ky.: Press of J.L. Richardson & Co., 1914.