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Georgie Boyden St. John

American composer

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
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Source revisionMay 29, 2025
Entity authorityQ122157369 ↗
Source-derived summary

Georgia Harrington Boyden St. John (1861–7 April 1899) was an American composer, mostly of songs. She published her music under the name Georgie Boyden St. John.

St. John was born in Boston. She married Gamaliel Cyrus St. John in 1891 and they had four sons. She died in a fire in New York City at age 38.

Little is known about St.

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Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Georgie Boyden St. John” is american composer. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Georgie, Boyden and John, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA productive starting point for separating a subject’s documented career from later reputation and commemoration. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1861, 1899, 1891—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Georgie, Boyden and John is the immediate research focus.
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Chronology provides the most reliable spine for this subject; interpretation should follow only after identities and dates are secure. The source revision retrieved here is dated May 29, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q122157369. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1861, 1899 and 1891.

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This entry incorporates text from “Georgie Boyden St. John” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.