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Birth name
  
Calvin Lee Woolsey

Years active
  
1909 – 1918

Role
  
Physician

Genres
  
Ragtime

Instruments
  
Piano

Name
  
Calvin Woolsey

Education
  
University of Missouri

Calvin Woolsey
Occupation(s)
  
Physician, composer and pianist

Died
  
November 12, 1946, Braymer, Missouri, United States

Calvin Woolsey (December 26, 1883 – November 12, 1946) was an American physician and pianist.

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Biography

Woolsey was the middle of three children born to Napoleon and Gertrude Woolsey. He was raised in Tinney Grove, Missouri, just south of the city of Braymer. He earned a medical degree from the University of Missouri and did his post-graduate work at Harvard Medical School. He joined the Army Medical Corps during World War I and attained the rank of 1st Lieutenant.

He composed rags in the folk ragtime style that was popular around 1900. He sold two of these to Jerome H. Remick and self-published several others. He also published a waltz and a march.

He died at home, in 1946, of a coronary thrombosis.

Compositions

  • "Funny Bones" (rag, 1909)
  • "Dissatisfied" (1910)
  • "Poison Rag" (1910)
  • "Medic Rag" (1910)
  • "Peroxide Rag" (1910)
  • "Mashed Potatoes" (rag, 1911)
  • "Bill Johnson" (1912)
  • "Purple and White" (march, 1913)
  • "Lover's Lane Glide" (rag, 1914)
  • "Hearts Across The Sea" (waltz, 1918)

    • References

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