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Sutro (FLORENCE CLINTON an American)

FLORENCE CLINTON, an American musician; born in England; was graduated at the Grand Conservatory of Music in New York with the degree of Mus. D., being the first woman in the United States to receive that degree, and at the Law School of the University of New York. She was a member of numerous literary, musical, and social societies; honorary president of the Grand Conservatory Alumnæ; president of the Hospital for Crippled Children, and prominent as a writer for the advancement of women as composers and musicians. She founded the National Federation of Musical Societies in 1898.

She died in 1906.