Agnes Leist Beebe

Agnes Leist was born in Shelbyville, Illinois^[2] and raised in Kingman, Kansas,^[3] the daughter of Simon Leist and Mary E. Bugh Leist.^[4][5] She graduated from the Arey Conservatory of Music.^[6]

Beebe lived in Wichita as a young woman,^[7] and toured the lyceum circuit as a singer.^[3] She was a noted singer and voice teacher based in Chicago and Miami.^[8][9] As a soprano,^[10] she sang in operas,^[11] at concerts and community events,^[12][13] and as an oratorio soloist.^[14] She taught at the Wichita Conservatory and at the Girvin Institute of Musical Art.^[15] She taught large weekly classes of voice students,^[16] Some of her students became professional singers themselves.^{[17][18][19][20]}

Leist married Canadian-born piano tuner^[21] George Lansing Beebe in 1894, in Kansas. They had a son, and lived in Miami part-time until the late 20s,^[22] when they moved to Miami permanently. She died in 1941, at the age of 66, in Miami.^[23][24]