VANDERPOEL, Kate

Cornelia Townsend was an American song composer who published most of her music under the name Kate Vanderpoel.

In 1896, the Republican National Committee sponsored the publication of 20,000 copies of three of Townsend's self-published songs: "Flag Song", "That Man from O-Hi-O" about President William McKinley, and "On To Victory".

Her music was published by S. Brainard Sons, Orpheus Publishing Company, Clayton F. Summy Company, and herself. She took a particular interest in the frontispiece design of her published music, going so far as to commission a cover for her Florimella Waltz from J. C. Lyndecker. Several of her songs were transcribed for organ, some made it into Clarence Eddy's repertoire. Several of her compositions were also transcribed and recorded for some of the earliest player pianos and organs for the Aeolian Company,[18] Wilcox & White Company, and Melvin Clark Piano Company.