page_title: Anna Farquhar Bergengren
section_title: Early years and education
hierarchical_section_title: Anna Farquhar Bergengren / Early years and education
caption_attribution_description: English: Front of the Goodwin-Farquhar House, located at 813 Main Street (U.S. Route 52/State Road 1) in Brookville, Indiana, United States. Built in 1855, once home to U.S. Representative John Hanson Farquhar, and now home to the local chamber of commerce, it is part of the Brookville Historic District (Brookville, Indiana), a historic district that is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. This is an image of a place or building that is listed on the National Register of Historic Places in the United States of America. Its reference number is 75000018
context_page_description: Anna Farquhar Bergengren was an American author and editor.
  Of Scotch-English ancestry, Bergengren's ancestors came to the United States in the time of Cecil Calvert, 2nd Baron Baltimore'ssettling in Maryland, near Baltimore. She was born in 1865, near Brookville, Indiana, her father being a lawyer and a member of Congress from that state. Her father's death made her determine upon a career for herself and she chose a musical education, but her health failed while studying in Boston, and she was ultimately obliged to give up singing, in which she had already attained fair success.
  Bergengren served as assistant editor of National Magazine. She wrote for the Boston Transcript, Detroit Free Press, and Springfield Republican during her musical career. While studying vocal music in London and Paris, she was employed as a foreign correspondent to the Boston Transcript. Her story "The Singer's Heart" expressed her professional ambitions. "The Professor's Daughter" was published in the Saturday Evening Post and was very popular. Her Boston Experiences appeared in a magazine and ultimately in book form.
context_section_description: Anna Farquhar was born December 23, 1865, at Brookville, Indiana. Her father, John Hanson Farquhar, was a lawyer and congressman. Her mother was Frances Mary Farquhar. Of Scotch-English ancestry, her ancestors first came to the United States in Lord Baltimore's time and were ceded property of considerable extent at a distance of some 40 miles (64 km) from Baltimore, in Maryland. After a short residence in Cincinnati, Ohio, her family moved to Indianapolis, where Congressman Farquhar became president of one of the foremost city banks. 
  In Indianapolis, the daughter attended private schools. While still quite young, she showed a distinct inclination toward languages and history, and an overwhelming love for music. Her particular aversion was the study of mathematics. At sixteen, she attended a boarding-school in Maryland, but soon returned to a society life, "educating her heels far better than her head will ever be educated."
  Bergengren left Indianapolis for Boston at the age of 21 to study for the professional musical stage. She cultivated her voice for grand opera, sang in church, and taught singing at the same time. In order to realize the money for pursuit of her musical education, the family property was mortgaged. The death of her father several years before had made this a possibility. Here, she struggled to cultivate her voice and soon received recognition of her growing musical powers by appointment to a position in a church choir. But the raw winds of New England had already begun to undermine her health which was never very robust, and her throat was so affected that further voice lessons were useless.
caption: Farquhar family home in Brookville
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