Rachel Steinman Clarke

Rachel Steinman was playing violin at Iowa events by 1900.^[4][5] She toured on the Chautauqua and lyceum circuits with the Midland Concert Company as a young woman,^[6] and as head of the Rachel Steinman Concert Company.^[2][1] She toured with her husband in the Edward Clarke Concert Company, from the 1910s into the 1920s.^[7][8] In 1917, for example, the Clarke company gave 142 concerts in 71 cities in 70 days, driving Clarke's Ford over 4,500 miles through Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota, and Wisconsin in the process.^[9]

Clarke was a member of the Chicago Civic Symphony Orchestra, and on the faculty of the Lyceum Arts Conservatory of Chicago.^[10] She also performed for radio concerts.^[11][12] "Miss Steinman is an exceedingly artistic violinist, playing with perfect self composure and so easily and gracefully as to inspire confidence in her music," commented one Iowa reviewer in 1911.^[13]

After moving to Florida in 1935,^[3] she was a member of the University of Miami Symphony Orchestra.^[14]

In 1913, Rachel Steinman married Charles Edward Clarke, a Canadian baritone singer, at a Baptist church in Chicago.^[15] She died in Miami, Florida in 1944.^[3]