Emma Marcy Raymond

Who was Emma Marcy Raymond?

Emma P. Marcy Raymond was an American composer of operetta, songs and piano music.

She was born in 1839 in Hartford, Connecticut, the oldest daughter of Dr. Erastus Egerton Marcy and Emeline Babcock Kilbourn Marcy, whose father was Henry Kilbourn of Hartford. Her father was a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania and later a homeopathic specialist, who apparently lived for many years on Fifth Avenue on the site opposite Tiffany's. In 1850 he published a book called The Homeopathic Theory and Practice of Medicine. Her sister Nina Marcy, married a lawyer called Ernest G. Stedman.

Her uncle was General Randolph D. Marcy, an 1832 graduate of West Point, and her obituary in The New York Times says she was a cousin to Mrs George B. McClennan, presumably Ellen Mary Marcy, the wife of General George Brinton McClellan, the father of the New York mayor of the same name.

She married 26 October 1860 Captain Edward A. Raymond.