Jane Elizabeth Twitchell was born in Dublin, New Hampshire, in 1835,[REF][REF] the youngest of three children born to Reuben Wilder Twitchell (1810-1895) and Hanna Prentice Wight (1815-1842).
By 1857, Twitchell moved to New York to study under the contralto Elena D'Angri and would perform many concerts [REF].