Amanda Carlson Swenson was born in Nykioping, Sweden, near Stockholm, to Anders Carlson and Margreta Larson Carlson. She attended the music conservatory in Stockholm where she trained as a soprano. She realized her dream of singing before the king and queen of Sweden as well as singing with the crown prince, Oscar. She was asked to join the Swedish Ladies' quartette which started on a tour of Europe on June 7, 1875 visiting Norway, Nortland,Finland, St. Petersburg, Moscow, Germany, Bohemia, Holland, Belgium, and spent the summer on the Rhime. In Ems they were persuaded to tour the United States in 1876, starting in New York City they finished their tour in San Francisco. The group broke up in Chicago where friends persuaded Amanda to stay in America which she did. She spent two years as head soprano at the Episcopal Church in Reading, Penn., before coming to Kearney, Nebraska where she married Andrew August Swenson. They were the parents of Carrie H. Kneass (Mrs. William E.) and Olga Swenson. After five years of marriage, she was widowed and reared her daughters in Kearney where she and her daughters often performed in the local Opera House and other social functions. Sometime around 1900, she moved to Salt Lake City where she was listed in the 1910 census as a vocal teacher. She was a genuine artist and had done much to raise the standard of musical culture in the city of Kearney. Her autobiography is listed in A WOMAN OF THE CENTURY by Charles Wells Moulton, 1893. Her death is listed in the Utah Death Index as January 11, 1919.
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Amanda Carlson Swenson was born in Nykioping, Sweden, near Stockholm, to Anders Carlson and Margreta Larson Carlson. She attended the music conservatory in Stockholm where she trained as a soprano. She realized her dream of singing before the king and queen of Sweden as well as singing with the crown prince, Oscar. She was asked to join the Swedish Ladies' quartette which started on a tour of Europe on June 7, 1875 visiting Norway, Nortland,Finland, St. Petersburg, Moscow, Germany, Bohemia, Holland, Belgium, and spent the summer on the Rhime. In Ems they were persuaded to tour the United States in 1876, starting in New York City they finished their tour in San Francisco. The group broke up in Chicago where friends persuaded Amanda to stay in America which she did. She spent two years as head soprano at the Episcopal Church in Reading, Penn., before coming to Kearney, Nebraska where she married Andrew August Swenson. They were the parents of Carrie H. Kneass (Mrs. William E.) and Olga Swenson. After five years of marriage, she was widowed and reared her daughters in Kearney where she and her daughters often performed in the local Opera House and other social functions. Sometime around 1900, she moved to Salt Lake City where she was listed in the 1910 census as a vocal teacher. She was a genuine artist and had done much to raise the standard of musical culture in the city of Kearney. Her autobiography is listed in A WOMAN OF THE CENTURY by Charles Wells Moulton, 1893. Her death is listed in the Utah Death Index as January 11, 1919.
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