Elise Fellows at Wodenethe, New York, 1887
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Maine Historical Society
May Fellows learned to read by about age three and attended three years of public school in Skowhegan -- and, in the summer and fall of 1882, took violin lessons from a Colby College student.
Deborah Fellows then decided her daughter had a future in music and arranged for the two of them to move to Boston in the fall of 1883.
May studied at the New England Conservatory and her mother was hired as a preceptor -- a job that paid her daughter's tuition and room and board for both of them.
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