Idabelle Smith Firestone
Idabelle Smith Firestone was an American composer and songwriter.Biography
She was born in Minnesota City, Minnesota on November 10, 1874. She was educated at Alma College, Ontario. Her father, George, held the patent to a flour milling process.
On 20 November 1895, she married Harvey Samuel Firestone, who had begun the Firestone Tire and Rubber Company five years earlier. She was the mother of Harvey S. Firestone, Jr., and Leonard Firestone, the grandmother of Brooks Firestone, and the great-grandmother of William Clay Ford, Jr., Andrew Firestone, and Nick Firestone.
She joined the ASCAP in 1948. Her compositions include "If I Could Tell You", "In My Garden", "You Are the Song in My Heart", "Do You Recall?", "Melody of Love" and "Bluebirds".
She died on July 7, 1954.
