Imogen Harding Brodie

{{Short description|American singer (1878–1956)}}

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Imogen Harding Brodie (June 8, 1878 – August 16, 1956) was an American vocal teacher and contralto soloist; she was the wife of the American envoy to the court of King Rama VI of Siam.

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Early life

Imogen Harding Brodie was born on June 8, 1878, the daughter of George A. and Jennie B. Harding. She was the great-granddaughter of Samuel K. Barlow. Brodie's great-grandmother was Susanna Lee of South Carolina, whose father, William Lee, was a lieutenant of artillery in the Revolutionary war.

Career

Brodie was active in civic affairs. She was a vocal teacher until 1915. For many years she was a contralto soloist in various Portland churches. From 1921 to 1925, she moved to Bangkok, where her husband was the American Envoy to the court of King Rama VI.

She was a member of the Professional Woman's League of Portland.

Personal life

In 1905, she married Edward Everett Brodie (1876–1939), a leader among newspaper men,{{cite web|title=Biography of Edward E. Brodie|url=http://www.onlinebiographies.info:80/or/brodie-ee.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191201092414/http://www.onlinebiographies.info:80/or/brodie-ee.htm |accessdate=3 October 2017|archive-date=2019-12-01 }} (republished from [https://archive.org/details/historyoforegon03care/page/472/mode/2up Carey, 1922]) and had two children, Madelen Jane and George Harding. She lived at Brodacre-on-Clackamas, Ore. R. F. D. 2, Oregon City, Oregon.{{cite book|last1=Binheim|first1=Max|last2=Elvin|first2=Charles A|title=Women of the West; a series of biographical sketches of living eminent women in the eleven western states of the United States of America|date=1928|page=[https://archive.org/details/womenofwestserie00binh/page/157 157]|url=https://archive.org/details/womenofwestserie00binh|accessdate=8 August 2017}}{{PD-notice}}

She died aged 78 on August 16, 1956, in Multnomah, Oregon.

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