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3 unusual facts about Nancy McIntosh


Nancy McIntosh

On 1 November 1887, she appeared in the first of a series of concerts with William H. Sherwod in the Chickering Musical Bureau concerts in Boston, Massachusetts, singing pieces by, among others, Tosti, Chopin, Bach and Wagner.

Her father was a member of the notorious South Fork Fishing and Hunting Club, which had been blamed in connection with the 1889 Johnstown Flood that resulted in the loss of over 2,200 lives in Johnstown, Pennsylvania.

William A. McIntosh was the president of a public utility, New York and Cleveland Gas Coal Company and a member of the South Fork Fishing and Hunting Club.


Burr McIntosh

His sister Nancy McIntosh, an operatic soprano, was the protege, adopted daughter and heiress to the estate and royalties of W. S. Gilbert of Gilbert and Sullivan.


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