Emilie (Emily) A. Wagner

Emilie (Emily) A. Wagner

Female Abt 1867 - 1945  (78 years)


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  • Name Emilie (Emily) A. Wagner  [1, 2
    Birth Abt 1867  New Bedford, Bristal, MA Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 3, 4, 5
    Gender Female 
    Death 5 May 1945  Brookhaven, Brookhaven, Suffolk, NY Find all individuals with events at this location  [5, 6
    • She was killed when her automobile was struck by a locomotive at a crossing near the Brookhaven station (Old Stump Road.). Furthermore, after the wreckage was cleared up, it is said that the train continued eastward where the engine blew up in Moriches k
    Person ID I7746  My Genealogy
    Last Modified 17 Sep 2023 

    Father Francis James Wagner, >,   b. 1835, Nova Scotia, Canada Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Nov 1907, Cucamonga, CA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 72 years) 
    Mother Elizabeth C. Allison,   b. Abt 1843, CT Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Yes, date unknown 
    Marriage Aft 1862  [4, 7, 8
    Family ID F4084  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Ellen Edgerton Learned, ^,   b. 30 Oct 1866, New London, CT Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 26 Jan 1963, Yaphank (Suffolk County Infirmary), Brookhaven, Suffolk, NY Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 96 years) 
    Family ID F3664  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 27 Mar 2026 

  • Notes 
    • Emilie Wagner is not known to have ever legally married. She had a long personal relationship with her companion, Ellen Learned. The relationship is shown here as spousal.]

  • Sources 
    1. [S115] Ancestry.com. 1930 United States Federal Census [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 2002. Original data: United States of America, Bureau of the Census. Fifteenth Census of the United States, 1930. Washington,, Place: Brookhaven, Suffolk, New York; Roll: 1650; Page: 3B; Enumeration District: 39; Image: 419.0.

    2. [S283] Personal Remembrances of Emily Wagner and Ellen Learned by Faith McCutcheon, Interviewed 2006.
      Phebe [Faith McCutcheon's sister] gave me a lot more information about Emily Wagner and Ellen Learned:

      Emily applied at John Hopkins to be a doctor and was accepted. She didn't go because she thought she could do more good at the Henry Street Settlement where she taught music instrments etc. to the welfare children

      It was there that she met Ellen Learned who taught voice. They first had a house on Beaver Dam Road which went to the bank. Later they scraped up enough money to build the house they lived in in the woods. Nellie took care of the gardens and Emily the house. They had many cats, and a dog. Ellen taught voice for opera stars in N.Y. and Emily taught piano, and instruments. She taught Phebe the cello, me piano. If you hit the wrong note she hit your fingers with a pencil. Ellen taught choir in our Episcopal Church. Her father was a minister somewhere.

      They helped struggling artists, an interior decorator, a woman who did monologues, etc. etc.

    3. [S49] Long Island Advance (Long Island Advance, 20 Medford Ave, Patchogue, NY), Obituary, 10 May 1945.

    4. [S15] Ancestry.com and The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. 1880 United States Federal Census [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 2005. 1880 U.S. Census Index provided by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Sai, Census Place: Springfield, Hampden, Massachusetts; Roll: 536; Family History Film: 1254536; Page: 173A; Enumeration District: 315; Image: 0348.

    5. [S1041] Emily Wagner obituary, Musician Friend of Children Dead, New York Times, 6 May 1945,.

    6. [S1042] Marty Van Lith, "Emily Wagner," e-mail message from () to John Deitz, 26 Jul 2006.

    7. [S1128] Ken Wagner, "," e-mail message from [e-mail for private use] ([street address for private use]), to , ., Family Emilie Wagner; email; 13 February 2012; John Deitz.

    8. [S88] National Archives and Records Administration (NARA); Washington, D.C.; Consolidated Lists of Civil War Draft Registration Records (Provost Marshal General's Bureau; Consolidated Enrollment Lists, 1863-1865); Record Group Number: 110; Title: Records of the.
      In 1862, he was single.