Idabelle Smith Firestone
Idabelle Smith Firestone (November 10, 1874[1] - July 7, 1954) was an American composer and songwriter.
Born in Jackson, Michigan,[2] she was educated at Alma College, Ontario. Her father, George, held the patent to the flour milling process.
On 20 November 1895, she married Harvey Samuel Firestone, who had begun the Firestone Tire and Rubber Company five years earlier.[3] She was the mother of Harvey S. Firestone, Jr., and Leonard Firestone, the grandmother of Brooks Firestone, and the great-grandmother of William Clay Ford, Jr., Andrew Firestone, and Nick Firestone.
She joined the ASCAP in 1948. Her compositions include "If I Could Tell You" (the theme of "Voice of Firestone" programs), "In My Garden", "You Are the Song in My Heart", "Do You Recall?", "Melody of Love" and "Bluebirds".[4]
References [edit]
- ^ ASCAP Biographical Dictionary. Fourth edition. Compiled for the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers by Jaques Cattell Press. New York: R.R. Bowker, 1980. [ASCAP 4]
- ^ James Newton (1989), Uncommon Friends: Life with Thomas Edison, Henry Ford, Harvey Firestone, Alexis Carrel, and Charles Lindbergh, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, p. 42, ISBN 0-15-692620-2, 9780156926201 Check
|isbn=value (help) - ^ "Shirer Family Genealogy Project" ancestry.com 18 October 2010
- ^ "Idabelle Firestone" imdb.com
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