SELIKA, MARIE (MRS. SAMPSON WILLIAMS). Concert singer ( in Natchez, Mississippi; in New York, New York). She was taken to Cincinnati, Ohio, as an infant and there she studied music as a child. A wealthy local family became interested in developing her talent and arranged for her to study with professional musicians. About 1873 or 1874 she went to San Francisco, California; there she studied with a Signora G. Bianchi and made her debut as a concert soprano...