Her publishing company changed location eight times, finally settling in Hollywood, California, which is where she and her son moved to in the early 1920s to help ease the pains of her rheumatism, where she continued performing and publishing.

As a result, she was one of very few women in the industry, and perhaps the only one, to own every word of every song she wrote.

Because Jacobs-Bond's attempts to have her music published were repeatedly turned down by the male-dominated music industry of the day, in 1896 she resorted to establishing her own sheet music publishing company. Her lyrics and music exemplified sentimentality, which was intensely popular at that time. Soon she found that people enjoyed her simple and lyrical music. For several years while living in Chicago, most of her songs never made the transition from manuscript to being published, so she had to raise money by singing them at social gathering and concerts. Mariana Bertola, Carrie Jacobs-Bond, May Showler Groves, Minna McGauley, Maud Wilde, Jeanette Lawrence, Miriam Van Waters, David Starr Jordan, Annie Florence Brown, Gertrude AthertonĪfter achieving some success with her composing, Jacobs-Bond moved with her son to Chicago to be closer to music publishers. She slowly sold off their furniture and ate only once per day. Selling ceramics, running a rooming house, and writing songs did not produce enough money to pay her bills. She was left with debts too large to be covered by the $4,000 in proceeds of his life insurance, and she returned to Janesville. Bond fell on the ice, and died five days later from crushed ribs in 1895. She lived among miners and loggers for several years and when the economy of the iron mining area collapsed, Frank had no money. They lived in Iron River, Michigan, where she was a homemaker and supplemented the family income with painted ceramics, piano lessons, and her musical compositions. Her second marriage in 1888 was to her childhood sweetheart, physician Frank Lewis Bond of Johnstown, Wisconsin. Smith of Janesville, at age 18, her only child, Frederick Jacobs Smith, was born on July 23, 1882. As a child, she attended classes in the Janesville public school system.ĭuring Jacobs' short-lived first marriage to Edward Smith J. She studied the piano from age 9 to age 17, with the dream to become a songwriter. Jacobs-Bond could pick out piano tunes at age 4, she could play some pieces just by hearing them at age 6, and then at age 8 she was able to play Liszt's Second Hungarian Rhapsody just by hearing it. Most of Jacob-Bond's family enjoyed playing music, and her father played the flute. Front cover of ' Just Awearyin' for You' (1901), with Jacobs-Bond's artwork, watercolors of the wild rose

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