Calvin Woolsey

• Name — Calvin Woolsey • Birth Name — Calvin Lee Woolsey • Birthplace — Tinney's Point, Missouri, U.S. • Born — December 26, 1883 • Place of death — Braymer, Missouri, U.S. • Died — November 12, 1946 • Instrument — Piano • Genre — Ragtime • Occupation — Physician, composer and pianist • Years Active — 1909 – 1918

Woolsey was the middle of three children born to Napoleon and Gertrude Woolsey. Woolsey was a descendant of George (Joris) Woolsey, one of the earliest settlers of New Amsterdam, and Thomas Cornell. Woolsey was raised in Tinney Grove, Missouri, just south of the city of Braymer. He earned a medical degree from the University of Missouri and did his post-graduate work at Harvard Medical School. He joined the Army Medical Corps during World War I and attained the rank of 1st Lieutenant. He composed rags in the folk ragtime style that was popular around 1900. He sold two of these to Jerome H. Remick and self-published several others. He also published a waltz and a march. He died at home, in 1946, of a coronary thrombosis.