Payette County ID Archives Biographies.....Jacobsen, Arma M. ? - ?
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Author: The Idaho Magazine, Vol. 1, No. 2, July 1905, page 21

The Idaho Magazine
By F. W. Ellis
Vol. 1, No. 2
July 1905
Page 21

ARMA JACOBSEN
(Payette’s Child Nightingale, Who Enthralls Audiences by the Magic of Song.)

Payette has artistic resources as well as material, for in little Arma 
Jacobsen, it has a remarkably gifted songstress who has not yet rounded out her 
twelfth year. And, in addition to the charm of her voice, she has an abounding 
self-confidence and a natural and acquired grace of movements which well might 
be the envy of many matured actress.  

This child has sung her way into the heart’s of not only the people of her home 
town, but into the hearts also of people of many of the leading cities of 
Southern Idaho.  For the past two years, she has frequently delighted vast 
audiences, and has in the meantime earned a state reputation as Idaho’s little 
Queen of Song.  She has a great range of voice, (soprano) elevating it with 
perfect ease to F sharp, and with a wondrous volume for a child so young.  She 
is mistress of its control, her enunciation if perfect, and in delivery she is 
grace itself.  Arma’s great natural talent and its possibilities were first 
recognized by her sister, Miss Bell Jacobsen, a young lady of rare musical 
endowments and an accomplished student of the Delsartian school.  And, thanks 
to her painstaking training, our little songstress owes much of her present 
attractiveness and finish of voice and gesture.  Arma is also under the 
tutorship of Miss Abbie Ewing, a graduate of the Cincinnati Conservatory of 
Music, who is sparing no pains with her, and who is positive that great vocal 
capabilities are in this pupil.  

The child is the daughter of N. A. Jacobsen, one of the foundation builders and 
foremost 
citizens of Payette, who is contemplating taking Arma to Europe to complete her 
musical 
education under the tutelage of the world’s masters of song.  

The greatest single success, perhaps, scored by Arma was at the Columbia 
theatre in
Boise, November, 1904, when present Governor Gooding delivered his last 
campaign 
address to not less than 2500 hearers, when she sang “My Own United States,” 
and 
responded to a thunderous encore with a song which was a parody on the 
political events 
of the time and the state and the Democratic party.    

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