Name Idabelle Firestone Role Composer | ||
Spouse Harvey Samuel Firestone (m. 1895–1938) Great grandchildren William Clay Ford, Jr., Sheila Firestone Hamp, Martha Parke Morse, Elizabeth Hudson Ford Similar People Harvey Samuel Firestone, Leonard Firestone, Harvey S Firestone - Jr, Elizabeth Parke Firestone, Martha Firestone Ford | ||
Children Harvey S. Firestone, Jr. Grandchildren Martha Firestone Ford | ||
Idabelle Smith Firestone (November 10, 1874 – July 7, 1954) was an American composer and songwriter.
Biography
She was born in Minnesota City, Minnesota on November 10, 1874. She was educated at Alma College, Ontario. Her father, George, held the patent to a flour milling process.
On 20 November 1895, she married Harvey Samuel Firestone, who had begun the Firestone Tire and Rubber Company five years earlier. She was the mother of Harvey S. Firestone, Jr., and Leonard Firestone, the grandmother of Brooks Firestone, and the great-grandmother of William Clay Ford, Jr., Andrew Firestone, and Nick Firestone.
She joined the ASCAP in 1948. Her compositions include "If I Could Tell You" (the theme of "Voice of Firestone" programs), "In My Garden", "You Are the Song in My Heart", "Do You Recall?", "Melody of Love" and "Bluebirds".
She died on July 7, 1954.