'''Edith Louise Wire''' (July 1899 – June 26, 1973)<ref>{{Cite web|title=Ancestry® {{!}} Genealogy, Family Trees & Family History Records|url=https://www.ancestry.com/|access-date=2020-07-21|website=www.ancestry.com}}</ref> was an American composer,<ref>{{Cite book|last=Cohen, Aaron I.|title=International encyclopedia of women composers|date=1987 |isbn=0-9617485-2-4|edition=Second edition, revised and enlarged|location=New York|oclc=16714846}}</ref> writer, and pianist<ref>{{Cite book|last=Stewart-Green, Miriam.|title=Women composers : a checklist of works for the solo voice|date=1980|publisher=G.K. Hall|isbn=0-8161-8498-4|location=Boston, Mass.|pages=|oclc=6815939}}</ref> with a strong interest in American history. She was born in Salt Lake City, Utah, and lived in her childhood home her entire life, with her brother Lester until his death in 1958.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Jones|first=Jennifer|date=2019-04-21|title=Posthumous Profiles: Lester Wire|url=https://www.thedeadhistory.com/posthumous-profiles-lester-wire/|access-date=2020-07-21|website=The Dead History|language=en-US}}</ref> Wire studied at the Utah Conservatory of Music<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Mkc0AQAAMAAJ|title=Musical America|date=1915|publisher=Musical America Corporation|language=en}}</ref> and with Dr. Georg Liebling in Los Angeles, California. As a pianist, she made several concert appearances in Los Angeles for large audiences and played on local radio stations as well.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bS0RAQAAMAAJ|title=The Colonial Courier|date=1966|publisher=National Society, Daughters of the American Colonists|language=en}}</ref>

Wire founded the Salt Lake City/ Matthais Farnsworth chapter of the National Society Daughters of the American Colonists in 1937 and served as honorary national vice president.<ref>{{Cite web|title=26 Mar 1953, 41 - Deseret News at Newspapers.com|url=http://www.newspapers.com/image/595515844/?terms=edith+louise+wire|access-date=2020-07-21|website=Newspapers.com|language=en}}</ref> She was president of the Colonial Dames of the 17th Century (Escalante chapter) in 1949,<ref>{{Cite web|title=17 Feb 1952, 40 - The Salt Lake Tribune at Newspapers.com|url=http://www.newspapers.com/image/599322123/?terms=edith+louise+wire|access-date=2020-07-21|website=Newspapers.com|language=en}}</ref> and president of the Utah State Society of Daughters of Founders and Patriots of America in 1963.<ref>{{Cite web|title=1 Jun 1963, 14 - The Salt Lake Tribune at Newspapers.com|url=http://www.newspapers.com/image/598568419/?terms=edith+louise+wire|access-date=2020-07-21|website=Newspapers.com|language=en}}</ref> She attempted to turn her family home into a museum honoring her brother Lester's traffic light invention, but funds ran out after her death. The Utah State Department of Transportation used the remaining assets of Edith's estate to create a different memorial for her brother: the Lester Farnsworth Wire Memorial Library in the new Department of Transportation building at 4501 South 2700 West in Salt Lake City. Wire wrote two books as well as songs<ref>{{Cite web|title=3 Feb 1952, 32 - Deseret News at Newspapers.com|url=http://www.newspapers.com/image/595165781/?terms=edith+louise+wire|access-date=2020-07-21|website=Newspapers.com|language=en}}</ref> and music for piano.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=t9EuAAAAIAAJ&q=edith+wire+composer|title=Directory of American Women Composers|date=1970|publisher=National Federation of Music Clubs.|language=en}}</ref>

Her works include:

== Books == *''Lester F. Wire: Savior of the Highways'' (1973)<ref>{{Cite book|last=Wire|first=Edith|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JJ5WzAEACAAJ|title=Lester F. Wire: Savior of the Highways|date=1973|language=en}}</ref> *''The Enchanted Island or The Adventures of Miss Sassyfras'' (1939)<ref>{{Cite book|last=Association|first=Young Men's Mutual Improvement|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=L19EAQAAIAAJ|title=The Improvement Era|date=1939|publisher=Young Men's Mutual Improvement Association|language=en}}</ref>

== Piano == *''Caprice'' *''Dusk in My Garden<ref>{{Cite web|title=5 Dec 1948, 42 - Deseret News at Newspapers.com|url=http://www.newspapers.com/image/595006208/?terms=edith+louise+wire|access-date=2020-07-21|website=Newspapers.com|language=en}}</ref>'' *''Figurine Coquette'' *''The Lotus Blossom''

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