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Irish immigrant

only a child when her father died.

Pacific Railroad

founder

studies at the piano and in French and offered moral counseling

eleven she endured further heartache when her great-grandmother died.

contracted typhoid fever and died.

proficient and creative storyteller.

Chopin graduated from the Catholic school in 1868

music--practicing at the piano and patronizing the city's symphony and its opera companies.

which dictated subservience for women to male domination

befriended a charismatic, independent--though married--German singer and actress.

native Oscar Chopin, who had arrived in the city to work in a bank. A year later the two were married.

abbreviated by commencement of the Franco-Prussian War,

St. Louis before establishing themselves in New Orleans.

French-Creole,

But Oscar's father was a tyrant who had been known to violently abuse both slaves and his son.

performing arts, developing a preference for the operas of Richard Wagner, and she persisted in her habit, then considered highly unusual for women, of smoking cigarettes.