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Alice Morgan Person (July 28, 1840 – June 12, 1913),〔David Hursh and Chris Goertzen, ''Good Medicine and Good Music: A Biography of Mrs. Joe Person'' (Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2009), 71 & 134.〕 known professionally as Mrs. Joe Person, was a North Carolina patent medicine entrepreneur and musician. She manufactured and marketed a patent medicine of Native American origin from 1878 until her death.〔David Hursh and Chris Goertzen, ''Good Medicine and Good Music: A Biography of Mrs. Joe Person'' (Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2009), 104.〕 Her third son, Rufus, continued to manufacture and distribute the medicine until 1943.〔David Hursh and Chris Goertzen, ''Good Medicine and Good Music: A Biography of Mrs. Joe Person'' (Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2009), 128.〕 Alice supplemented her patent medicine activities by using her musical skills to demonstrate pianos for keyboard instrument vendors at county fairs and state expositions throughout the South. As a result, visitors to the exhibits at which Alice played requested she publish her folk-tune arrangements, which she did in 1889.〔David Hursh and Chris Goertzen, ''Good Medicine and Good Music: A Biography of Mrs. Joe Person'' (Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2009), 111.〕 ==Life and work== The second of five children, Alice was born and raised in Petersburg, Virginia. Though financial woes plagued her parents, they still managed to provide Alice and her siblings with a high-quality education.〔David Hursh and Chris Goertzen, ''Good Medicine and Good Music: A Biography of Mrs. Joe Person'' (Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2009), 71-73.〕 In 1857, Alice married Joseph Arrington Person, and by doing so became part of a prominent North Carolina family. The couple settled on Joseph’s estate in Franklinton, North Carolina, just north of Raleigh, where they raised their nine children.〔David Hursh and Chris Goertzen, ''Good Medicine and Good Music: A Biography of Mrs. Joe Person'' (Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2009), 85.〕 A neighbor introduced Alice to the medicine that would make her famous when her third daughter, Josephine, became seriously ill. Alice credited the Native American elixir with saving her daughter, and continued to make and share it until she realized it could provide desperately-needed income. Her husband’s stroke and the Civil War left the family with no way to make a living from their farm.〔David Hursh and Chris Goertzen, ''Good Medicine and Good Music: A Biography of Mrs. Joe Person'' (Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2009), 12-13.〕 Alice christened the medicine Mrs. Joe Person’s Remedy and set out across the state of North Carolina selling it door-to-door and in drug stores,〔“Two Parts Man Is Mrs. Person,” ''Raleigh Daily News and Observer'', June 25, 1905.〕 later supplementing this income with piano playing engagements and the sale of her published folk-tune arrangements. Alice traveled widely, including multiple trips to the western United States. She died in Santa Fe, New Mexico, during her third western excursion.〔“Mrs. Joe Person Laid to Rest Today,” ''Charlotte News'', June 17, 1913.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Alice Morgan Person」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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