Jeannette Meyer Thurber

Jeannette Meyer Thurber (born Jan. 29, 1850, New York, N.Y., U.S.—died Jan. 2, 1946, Bronxville, N.Y.) was an American music patron who devoted her efforts to creating a government-funded music conservatory in the United States. Jeannette Meyer was privately educated in New York and Paris. In 1869 she married Francis B. Thurber, a wholesale grocer and later a lawyer. Influenced by her observations of the French system of government-sponsored music education, Thurber soon began working...