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STRING ORGANIZATION-In the column next to the one. carrying ibis story there is an ar- • liele on a subject different and i raaei more pleasant It is headed: “Bacd History”. a descriptive ca^* tion. and the body of., the story; contains matter about an old: musical organization which we do not remember to have seen else** .where In print. The article was; year wrlisoo by “I3l2,# which may . stand for a citizen born in the year *’ 01 the: war with Great Britain or; ifor a setiler in Zanesville of that, j historic year. The reader may; .fchoose or make a better guess. ' i Siring and Heeds *The historian says that the'first 1 band tlmr ever paraded on Zanes-j vine's streets was a string and reed ; : organization. He names the mem-!? hers:, diaries Kilr. leader; J. V-1• Cushing. David Spangler* 'Isaac; -^fias’sler. William and. John Lat-: inter. William Pelham, William J ; Headley. Charles Cleveland and John B2ist% !; Of and for Misons \Most of the men wore Mlasons,: istiys pilS!Z^ and the organisation;; was formed exclusively for the. -benefit of the order. These rausi-# jcians turned out first in 1S22 to; Hake part in the ceremonies con- ': nected with the burial of Eben-4 ezer Granger. The next band. says. 1“1S1V was organized in the win.- ; ■ter of 182S-2? and Its members’ were Hamilton and Jackson Hough,■ ■A. C. Ross. John Parker, Henry| i Wilson, James .Fortune* D. J* Cul-j5 benson, and William Mcdxibben. • j‘ Farewell Appearance j: This hand splayed for the Masons]: when the corner stone of the Ath-i'eneum was laid in IS30 and the?• organization appeared in public for; i are not given, bur “1312” lists Its1 celebration . in Coshocton of St.! •John’s day. The next band. ihe}! “Zanesville/* was also short lived.:|The dates of Its birth and death.;• ore r.oz given* but 1812 lists its £; members- Thomas Daunder, J. B. I . Bradshaw. John and Jackson I ; PrSmz. John and Cass Alter, and c ■Daniel Hatton. [I The fourth band was Atwood's ’• iacd besides that leader* Charles f \ Roper. Thoma* I^aunder and David.: Kahrt and other members of the ; ;band next proceeding were mem-: |be rs. From this organization. adds.:\ IS12. sprung: the Bauer band and^ jhe says that in ISTS it had been:| in ocitsance “over years.” f-Too Bad He Forgot - ;What interest could have been;| added to T SI 2’s story had he told; •us in detail what instruments were-. usf d in-that. band of *822. bad ^ dn:v:a a : coniarst between- the: j music they produced id that;. | yielded by the cornets of later I; [days and had given the period: j diit'ing which the cornets succeed- j. I ed the reed and'string pieces. Be i. i says, indeed. tliat“ the Bauer band ;; was built up from Atwood's as i_ ;ear!}' as 1S53- Most of our readers! remerabsr the Bauer band and a j fe-v of them. Atwood's. The latter J) iis well as the former, was a cor-j i net' band. When did reeds and j ! strings vield to horns in the Zanes- *I vilhi braids? • ?
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Times Signal
Zanesville, Ohio, US
Sun, Jun 27, 1926
Page 23
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David T.
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