Adaline Shepherd

{{Short description|American piano composer}}

Adaline Shepherd (August 19, 1883 – March 12, 1950) was an American composer of piano pieces. Though she did not compose many pieces, the pieces she composed were popular. In her twenties, she composed three ragtime pieces: "Pickles and Peppers" (1906),{{cite web|url=http://webapp1.dlib.indiana.edu/inharmony/detail.do?action=detail&fullItemID=/lilly/starr/LL-SSM-2-305-0225|title=IN Harmony: Sheet Music from Indiana - "Pickles and Peppers"|website=Webapp1.dlib.indiana/edu}} "Wireless Rag" (1909),{{cite web|url=http://digital.library.umsystem.edu/cgi/i/image/image-idx?sid=b1c00f0aeb9e69454ab973c1a74e1f80;c=scoresic;q1=wireless;rgn1=scoresic_ti;size=20;lasttype=boolean;view=entry;lastview=thumbnail;subview=detail;cc=scoresic;entryid=x-004352;viewid=004352;start=1;resnum=1|title=Full record for Kansas City Sheet Music Collection: 004352|website=Digital.library.umsystem.edu}} and "Live Wires Rag" (1910).{{cite web|url=http://webapp1.dlib.indiana.edu/inharmony/detail.do?action=detail&fullItemID=/lilly/devincent/LL-SDV-131003|title=IN Harmony: Sheet Music from Indiana - "Live Wires" |website=Webapp1.dlib.indiana.edu}} Commemorating World War I, she also published "Victory" (1918).{{cite web|url=http://www.ragtimepiano.ca/images/victorymarch.pdf|format=PDF|title=Musical score for "Victory" by Adeline Shepherd|website=Ragtimepiano.ca|access-date=March 8, 2022}} She married Frederick Sherman Olson in 1910, and thereafter used his last name as her own.

After her marriage, she retired from composition, and her compositions were unknown to her remaining family by the 1970s until they were contacted by reporters.{{cite web|url=http://adelineshepherd.net/|title=Pickles and Peppers Adeline Shepherd|website=Adelineshepherd.net}}