# Edith Wire

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'''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](/source/Salt_Lake_City), Utah, and lived in her childhood home her entire life, with her brother [Lester](/source/Lester_Wire) 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](/source/Georg_Liebling) in [Los Angeles](/source/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](/source/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](/source/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''

== References ==
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Category:American women composers
Category:1899 births
Category:1973 deaths
Category:20th-century American women writers
Category:Writers from Salt Lake City
Category:Musicians from Salt Lake City
Category:Daughters of Founders and Patriots of America
Category:Members of the National Society Daughters of the American Colonists

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