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Sarah Walter Chandler (1829-1897) was born in Chester County, Pennsylvania, the daughter of John and Maria Jane Walter Chandler, and a descendant of George and Jane Chandler, immigrants of 1687. She married Colonel Kersey Coates (1823-1887), son of Lindley and Debrah Simmons Coates, in 1855. They had three children. She visited Kansas with her husband in 1856 and returned there in 1859 to make a permanent home at Kansas City, Missouri.
"Laura Reed was born on June 10, 1887, in Kansas City, MO to Homer and Laura (Coates) Reed, whose father was Kersey Coates, a prominent business man in Kansas City during the late 1800s and whose mother was also a suffragist and friend to Susan B. Anthony. Laura was a musical prodigy on the violin and began taking lessons at age seven. By age thirteen, she performed the Mendelssohn Concerto with the Kansas City Symphony. This momentous concert caught the eye of famed violinist Camilla Urso who subsequently invited Laura to apprentice with her. One year later, Laura performed with the Kansas City Symphony again. At sixteen, she moved to New York and studied with Leopold Lichtnberg; and at sev...
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