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Evan Williams Rises in Music from Akron to Fame
Welsh tenor Evan Williams left Akron with forty dollars to pursue singing in New York. He joined All Angels church choir after a trial and earned eight hundred dollars for six months, then rose to $1800 and $2700 salaries at churches, becoming a major concert draw at $350 per performance with a career across the United States and England.
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Evan Williams
Akron
Ohio
New York
Williams
G. Miles
Manhattan
Miles
Kinsman
William
Twenty-third Street
Sixth Avenue
Fifth Avenue
Fortieth Street
I. A. Lieberling
Goodyear Rubber
Harlem
All Angels’ Church
Eighty-first Street
West End Avenue
Jesus
Musical New York
Mable Collegiate Church
United States
England