Marie Grice Young

Marie Grice Young was born on January 5, 1876, the daughter of Samuel Grice Young and Margaret Brown (Wilson) Young.^[1][2] She belonged to a political upper-class family in Washington, and was the niece-in-law of Alexander Robey Shepherd, who had married her aunt, Mary Grice Young.^[3] The Young Family was originally from Virginia.^[4][5]

In 1897 she studied music under John Porter Lawrence.^[6] In 1904 she toured with a musical reading, "Enoch Arden", Young at the piano and Helen Weil reading the poem.^[7] The Young family was very involved in music. Young's brother, Wilson Young, was himself involved as his wife was a known soprano in New York, and his daughter Hildreth Young also eventually became a singer.^[2][8] Young herself also sang as soprano occasionally at their local St. Matthew's Catholic Church.^[9]

In the middle of the decade of the 1900s, Young was a piano teacher who numbered among her pupils Ethel, Archibald, and Quentin Roosevelt, the children of President Theodore Roosevelt.^{[5][10][11][12][13]} Her extensive involvement with the Roosevelt family allowed her in 1907 to provide information regarding management of their household.^[14] She remained in the Washington, D.C. area until around 1911.^[15]