Carrie Jacobs-Bond

Songwriter

Birthday August 11, 1862

Birth Sign Leo

Birthplace Wisconsin

DEATH DATE Dec 28, 1946 (84)

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About

Best known for writing the song I Love You Truly and being the first woman to sell one million copies of a song.

Before Fame

She studied piano as a young child.

Trivia

She was posthumously inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1970.

Family Life

She was the daughter of Hannibal Jacobs and Emma Davis Jacobs.

Associated With

She once performed for Theodore Roosevelt.