Biography of Alice Buhner, St. Petersburg, Pinellas County, FL

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Transcribed from:  The History of Florida:  Past & Present, The Lewis Publishing Co., Vol. 
II, page 335, 1923.

BUHNER, Mrs. ALICE of St. Petersburg, is one of the talented women of Florida, a musician 
with thoroughly trained talent, and has been prominent in musical educational work in Saint 
Petersburg.

She was born on a ranch at Henrietta, Texas, daughter of WILLIAM LONGEE and VIRGINIA (VAN 
ZANDT) AINSLIE.  Her parents moved to Florida in 1884, and her father owned several orange 
groves and was also a veneer manufacturer.  Mrs. BUHNER is a pianist who is probably the 
foremost exponent in Florida of the famous Virgil piano school method, which she has been 
very successful in teaching. Her daughter MARY also possesses great musical talent, and 
has a wonderful lyric soprano voice.  Mrs. BUHNER has three children:  MARY, born October 
30, 1893, PAULINE VIRGINIA and WILLIAM.