page_title: Abbie Carrington
section_title: Personal life
hierarchical_section_title: Abbie Carrington / Personal life
caption_attribution_description: English: Abbie Carrington, 1898
context_page_description: Abbie Beeson Carrington Lewys was one of America's leading coloratura sopranos of the 19th century. When the Grand Opera House opened in Oshkosh, Wisconsin, for the first time on August 11, 1883, Carrington sang the title role in The Bohemian Girl.
context_section_description: In 1872 Abbie Beeson married Adelbert P. Carrington (1869–1902), a man from Fond du Lac, a tinsmith who worked with her brother, Henry, and had one daughter, Mary Carrington (b. 1874) who married firstly A.L. Miller and secondly Emlyn Lewys (the son of Abbie's second husband). In March 1899 Beeson filed for divorce for nonsupport and cruelty. She said she supported her husband for twenty-five years on the revenue which she derived from the exercise of her talents in the vocal line. In 1900 she married Prof. Wilbert Lewys, director of the Virgil Practice Clavier musical schools of London and Berlin.
  Abbie Beeson Lewys died on April 8, 1925, in San Francisco, where she lived.
caption: Abbie Carrington, 1898
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