Olive Mead

She was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts and began studying the violin at the age of 7.^[4] She began studies with Eichberg and Kneisel in 1888 and made her debut at Steinert Hall in Boston at the age of 20.^[5] She married New York realty professional Merrill Holden Green, who died in 1918.^[5] She died at her home in Cambridge in 1946 at the age of 71, survived by two of her three sons.^[5]

At the age of 25, she made a European tour with Franz Kneisel and his wife, during which she had the opportunity to meet Johannes Brahms.^[5] In 1898 she became a soloist for the Boston Symphony Orchestra, and in later years for the Chicago Symphony Orchestra.^[5] She also played at diplomatic receptions in London as well as gatherings hosted by Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema.^[5] Her performance at the Salle Erard in London in June 1900 was noted as being "immensely intelligent".^[6] In 1910, the Olive Mead Quartet played a benefit for the Graduate Nurses Association at the Columbia Theater in Washington, D.C.^[7]