GEO. AUGUSTUS ALLEN was born in Leominster, Mass., June 26, 1822, and died in Leominster, Aug. 27, 1874, ae. 52. He married Jan 6, 1848, Mary L. Bullard, who died March 28, following. He married, second, May 14, 1849, Louise Bullard, a sister of his first wife.
Children of Geo. A. and Louise, all born in Leominster :
i. MARY LOUISE, b. July 23, 1850 ; d. June 12, 1856.
ii. CLARA BULLARD, b. Dec. 22, 1855 ; d. Sept. 14, 1856.
iii. KATIE, b. Dec. 27, 1857.
iv. HARRY, b. Oct. 30, 1863 ; d. Feb. 24, 1864.

(Walter Allen of Newbury, Mass., 1640, and some of his Descendants, 1896)

(Walter Allen of Newbury, Mass., 1640, and some of his Descendants, 1896)

John ALLEN was born in Leominster, Mass., Aug. 22, 1826. He is in the piano business and lives in Newton (Mass.), where he resided since about 1865. He married, May 14, 1857, Emma Slater.
Children of John and Emma :
i. SUSAN FRANCES, b. Aug. 14, 1860.
ii. CHARLES CROSBY, b. June 29, 1863.
iii. WILLIAM EDWARD, b. Jan. 6, 1867 ; lives in St. Paul.

(Walter Allen of Newbury, Mass., 1640, and some of his Descendants, 1896)

(Boston Daily Globe, June 29, 1878)

Prof. Benjamin F. Baker, whose name was familiar in many households where the B. F. Baker piano is found or where the musical books that he edited are used, died in this city on Monday. He was born in Salem 78 years ago, but in early life came to Boston, and about the year 1837/8 made his appearance as a bass soloist, at the same time with Thomas Ball, the sculptor. In this city since then Mr. Baker has been prominently identified with the musical growth. For years he served as a teacher of singing in the public schools, and the books which he edited have been extensively used. Among those works were the Choral, Timbrel, Haydn, Union Glee Book, Theory in Harmony and School Chimes, while at the time of his death he had just finished a volume on thorough bass, as yet unpublished. Among the choirs led by him in former years were those of Rev. Otis A. Skinner's Universalist Church in Warren street, and Rev. Dr. Huntington's Unitarian Church, corner of Washington and Castle streets. Later he conducted the singing in Rev. Dr. Dunn's Presbyterian Church on Harrison avenue. He was held in high esteem by pupils and associates. He organized the Boston Music School (incorporated in 1857) and carried that institution on for a number of years, with himself at the head and with many able teachers in his corps of assistants. In the Handel and Haydn Society he was prominent also. Of late years Mr. Baker has been interested chiefly in the piano business, and in connection with that made his headquarters for a good portion of that time in Chicago. He leaves three children.

(Boston Weekly Journal, 1889)

(Boston City Directory, 1884)

["The Bent Family in America"] tells of WIlliam and Adam Bent, sons of Ebenezer Bent, who began to make pianos, at or near Boston, about the year 1797. It seems that the Bent Bros. were "wood carvers and instrument makers," and, in the summer of 1797, a Frenchman named Mallet, connected with the theatre in Boston, sent a piano to them to be repaired, which led them to begin the manufacture of pianos. Their shop was at No. 26 Orange Street (now Washington Street) and near the present bridge over the Boston and Albany Railroad. In 1802 and succeeding years, Adam Bent went to the West Indies, selling their goods. In 1809, William Bent moved to Philadelphia, where the first piano manufactured in America is said to have been made by John Behrend, in 1774. It was in Philadelphia, too, that the first upright piano was produced by Hawkins, in 1800. It will be noted that the Bents were the thrid to manufacture pianos in America. It would seem that William Bent worked for other manufacturers of pianos for some twenty years, presumably to profit by the experience of those who were pioneers in their field. He then returned to Boston, where he died in the year 1851. (I have alluded elsewhere to the piano made by Adam and William Bent in 1797, which was on display in my show window in Chicago for a number of years. Until I discovered this instrument, with the assistance of Mr. Weed, of the Patent Office, at Washington, D. C., I had not believed that any of the pianos made by Adam and William Bent were still in existence . The cabinet work on this instrument was and is in superb condition, after more than a hundred and twenty-five years.) Edward F. Bent, a grandson of Adam Bent aged eighty-six, lives in San Francisco, where I met him for the first time quite recently.

OLD PIANO MADE BY WM. AND ADAM BENT ABOUT THE YEAR 1797.

I had this piano on display in a show windo at my store      on Wabash Avenue for years. The piano is now at      the Museum of History, Science and Art, at Los      Angeles.

(Tales of Travel, Life and Love, 1924)

JAMES B. BERRY

was a native of New Brunswick, having been born in the city of St. Andrews in 1821. He learned the trade of pianoforte-maker, and was in that business from the time he was twenty years of age until his death. His business and residence were at Boston Highlands, where he was known as a strong temperance worker and an upright citizen. He joined our association in 1879. He died on the 18th of June, leaving a widow and three sons. [1891]

(Annals of the Massachusetts Charitable Mechanic Association, 1795-1892)

Horace Phelps Blackman, now leading a retired life at his home in Cambridge, which is a fitting sequel to a life of activity and toil, is a native of Augusta, Maine, born July 1, 1833. He is a son of Henry B. and Mary E. (Sortell) Blackman, the former of whom was a carpenter and builder.
Horace P. Blackman attended the schools of Augusta, and after completing his studies located in Boston, Massachusetts, where he learned the trade of cabinet making with Chickering & Sons, the celebrated piano makers. Later he worked three years for the firm of Hallett & Davis as foreman in their mill department, and then entered the employ of Mason & Hamlin, of Cambridge, where he became a contractor of cabinet work and where he remained from 1862 to 1892, a period of thirty years, when he retired from active labor, leaving accumulated a competency for his declining years. Mr. Blackman takes an active interest in the affairs of his adopted city, and in 1893 was chosen by his townsmen as a member of the board of aldermen, in which capacity he rendered efficient service. He is a member of the Mizpah Lodge, Free and Accented Masons, the Royal Arch Chapter, Boston Council, Boston Commandery Knights Templar, Lafayette Lodge of Perfection of Boston, and Cambridge Lodge, No. 13, Independent Order of Odd Fellows. He is also a member of the Newtowne Club.
Mr. Blackman married, July 15, 1857, Lydia Flynt, daughter of John Flynt, a natice of Andover, Massachusetts. The children of this marriage are : 1. Gertrude Flint, 2. Arthur Wright

(Historic Homes and Places and Genealogical and Personal Memoirs Relating to the Families of. Middlesex County, )

BOSTON PIANO CO.,
Manufacturers of and Dealers in First-Class
Square and Upright Piano Fortes.
	Have also a large assort- ment of new and second hand Pianos and Organs of various manufacturers for sale and to rent very low. Pianos sold on in- stalments to suit pur- chasers. A good assort- ment of Stools and Cov- ers constantly on hand
Pianos Tuned and Repaired. Call and see our Mahogany Uprights.
E. WILSON & CO., Proprietors
18 Essex Street, Boston.

(Boston City Directory, 1865)

In 1839, William Bourne informed the public that he would continue the manufacture of pianofortes in Dayton on the corner of Second and Jefferson streets, and felt that it would not be boasting to say he was able to make as good an instrument as was manufactured in Cincinnati, or imported from the East. He had engaged M. Bothart to build the instruments. Mr. Bourne afterward moved to Boston, Massachusetts, and won considerable celebrity.

(History of Dayton, Ohio, 1889)

(Important Events of the Century, 1876)

"PIANINOS," OR SMALL PIANOS. It is a pleasant duty at all times to record inventionsor improvements that bring within the reach of all such humanizing influences as go largely towards making cheerful homes for the mass of our people. Music, and necessarily a Piano, figures among the best means to that end. We are led to make these remarks by a visit to Mr. J. W. Brackett's establishment, No. 18, Avery Street, near the Adams House, made by us a short time since, where we saw an instrument called a "Pianino" or small Piano, lately manufactured by the proprietor. We certainly congratulate Mr. Brackett upon his success in constructing this instrument, which combines two very desirable qualities - viz., a square piano of a small size and a piano which costs only $140, to $175 : but the most important feature of it is that though a small piano it will give a very large tone and of the best quality. We would certainly advise a visit to his manufactory, where may be found an assortment of first-class Piano-fortes, with all the modern improvements, and finished in every variety of style. Also the "Padelies," a Piano with a full suit of Organ Pedals, making a pedal bass for Organ practise ; a very desirable instrument for organists and teachers.

(A Historical Sketch of Boston, 1861)

J. W. BRACKETT,
Manufacturer of Piano-fortes,

	PIANINOS,
	(UPRIGHT PIANOS,) ALSO
	PEDAL PIANOS, for ORGANISTS.
	18 Avery St., near the Adams House,
	BOSTON
	New and Second-hand Piano-fortes bought, sold, repaired, tuned, and to let.

(Boston City Directory, 1865)

RHODA FRANCES BLAISDELL HOYT, b. Oct. 24, 1842 [dau. of Enos Alpheus Hoyt]; m., Dec. 24, 1862, John Wentworth Bracket of Boston, a piano manufacturer. She d. Oct. 20, 1863, leaving a son, who survived her four weeks.

History of Northfield, NH 1780-1905, 1905)

BRIGGS, Charles Cornelius, pres. Briggs Piano Co.; b. Boston, Feb. 2, 1856; s. Charles Cornelius and Lucretia (Jackson) B.; ed. pub. schs.; m. Newtonville, Feb. 8, 1883. Lillie P. Gould. Apprentice G. M. Guild & Co., Boston, 1876; became partner C. C. Briggs & Co., piano mfrs., Boston, 1878, incorporated 1893, as Briggs Piano Co., of which was v.-p. and pres. to 1889. Republican. Mem. Nat. Piano Makers' Assn. Residence: Newtonville, Mass. Office: 10 Thatcher St., Boston.

(Who's who in New England, 1909)

C. C. Briggs & Co., Briggs' Upright Grand and Square Piano-Fortes, No. 5 Appleton Street. - Among the houses which have contributed to making this city an important centre in the production of musical instruments is that of C. C. Briggs & Co. To accomodate the increased demand for their instruments, Messrs. Briggs & Co. have removed from their former location, No. 1125 Washington street, to their commodious and substantial five-story factory, No. 5 Appleton street. This enterprising firm manufacture several styles of upright, grand and square piano-fortes with many new features and improvements in the scales and styles, and the success of their instruments and the commendation they have everywhere received from dealers and artists attests the substantial progress of the firm in their important art. The principal aim of Messrs. Briggs & Co. is to make a first-class piano in very respect, with special attention to its lasting qualities. By constant care, experiment, and endeavor, Messrs. Briggs & CO. have brought their instruments to the highest standard of excellence, and in the opinion of those who have used them they are the nearest appoach to perfection yeat attained. The piano scales are drawn by Mr. C. C. Briggs, who has had practical experience in piano building of a quarter of a century, and his scales drawn years ago for other firms are in use to-day. The new style cases of this house are wholly original in design and made of the most durable and fashionable woods. In upright pianos they manufacture several styles and sizes, among which are their famous cottage uprights, which by thoughtful and patient study and experiment they have brought to a wonderful degree of perfection, securing a small piano embodying the qualities of volume, fullness, and sweetness of tone of the larger sizes. Messrs. Briggs & Co.'s separable piano is one of the most ingenious inventions for facilitating the moving of the larger sizes of pianos through narrow passages and doorways otherwise impassable. The cases are each divided into two vertical sections front and back. The style A, cottage upright piano, is three strings to a note, overstrung bass, with repeating action, handsome panels, round corners, plain trusses, ivory keys, and improved music rack. Style G is also three strings to a note, overstrung bass and repeating action, with handsome panes and carved trusses, ivory keys and improved music rack, and has an exceedingly fine, rich quality of tone and even scale, and is the most desirable size for hte parlor. Style B has in addition a brass action rail, four pilasters and molding in front, extra-handsome panels, ivory keys, and improved music rack, and is the favorite of artists for its great volume and purity of tone. Style E, square piano, has four large round corners, carved legs, French action and top dampers, plain moldings, and Agraffe treble. Style D, square, has also four round corners, richly carved legs and lyre, French action and top dampers, solid rosewood plain and serpentine moldings on plinth, and Agraffe treble. Messrs. Briggs & Co. furnish a warranty with every piano sold, warranting for five years from date of sale.

(Leading Manufacturers and Merchants of the City of Boston, 1885)

Brown Was an Original Son.

Edwin Brown, a piano maker, who died in Boston a few days ago, was one of the few remaining original Sons of the Revolution. Mr. Brown was born at Fitchburg, June 19, 1805. He went to Boston at the age of 16. His father served in the Revolutionary army and was at the battle of Bunker Hill.

(The Marlin Democrat, 25.09.1902)

(Boston Almanac, 1856)

RANDALL GARDNER BURRELL
Was born in Bucksport, Me., July 24th, 1816 ; he resided there and in Bangor, Me., until 1837, when he went South and was engaged in the lumbering and carpentering business in Appalachicola, Fla., until 1841 ; he then came to Boston and began the manufacture of pianos in 1842, and continnued in this occuption until the time of his death, although in the meantime he went to California from Boston with the pioneers in 1849, and engaged there in mechanical and mining business until 1854, when he returned to Boston and resumed his former occupation.
Brother Burrell received the degrees in Appalachicola, Fla., in Franklin Lodge, No. 6, as follows : Entered Apprentice, March 22 ; Fellow Craft, March 29, and Master Mason, April 15, 1841. He became a member of The Massachusetts Lodge June 12, 1846, and so remained until his decease at Washington, D. C., April 4, 1893, aged 76 years, 8 months. He left a widow, and a son, Rt. Wor. Bro. and Gen. Herbert L. Burrel, Master of our Lodge in 1885, and District Depury Grand Master of the First Masonic District for the year 1877.
Brother Burrell, during the whole period of his membership in The Massachusetts Lodge, not only exemplified the true principles of Masonry, but in all his intercourse with his fellow men, was conscientious, upright, and of the strictest integrity. While he never aspired to official position in the Fraternity, he yet attained to the highest estimation of his fellow members by the conscientious performance of all his Masonic duties and a most exemplary life. He possessed the affection of all the members of the Lodge, particularly of the younger Brethren, and his counsel was always listened to and given the greatest weight.

(125th Anniv. Mass. Lodge, 1896)

Mrs. Jacob Chickering : One of the oldest residents of Andover quietly breathed her last, on Wednesday morning, April 26. She was born in Londonderry, NH., August 7, 1810, and so was at her death, 82 years, 8 months, and 19 days old. Previous to the commencement of her disease, progressive paralysis, she had comparitively good health, and delighted in the thought that she could be of so much service to others, and still enjoy their society. The first serious attack was January 16.
Her father was Alexander McMurphy, her mother, Sarah Duncan of Londonderry, NH. Her ancestry belonged to the so-called Scotch-Irish of Londonderry, NH. They came from Londonderry, Ulster County, 1718-22, and previously from Argyleshire, Scotland, about 1612. They were rigid Presbyterians who fled from Scotland to avoid religious persecution.
Mrs. Chickering was born upon the estate where five generation of McMurphys have lived, beginning with the first settlement of Prebyterian Londonderry.
Miss Sarah Jean McMurphy first came to Andover in 1833, as a school teacher, and becoming aquainted with Mr. Jacob Chickering, was married to him in Londonderry by the Rev. John R. Adams, November 26, 1835. The wedding party came to Andover in sleighs to the now Grosvenor house, on Essex Street, which house Mr. Chirckering had built. A few years after he built the present Chickering homestead, on Essex Street, where they have lived to round out half century of wedded life. He died in March 1887.
Mr. Chickering will be remembered by the older citizens of Andover as one of the leading business men of his day; a man of great energy, will, and force of character. As Mr. Chickering was always active in town affairs, and a public spirited citizen, so Mrs. Chickering was always ready to assist him in such ways as she could. They were both members of the South Church. Mrs. Chickering was a first member of the Presbyterian Church at Londonderry, and removed her connection to the South Church in 1837.
She was for many years an active social influence in Andover, and was President at one time of the Ladies Temperence Society in its palmy days.
Many of the older families may recall her as a willing watcher by the bedside of the sick, when friends and neighbors used voluntarily to give such aid.
She was the oldest active member of the Maternal Association of the South Church, always attended if health permitted. She was decidely a daily bible reader, and the bible and hymnals make up most of her later reading.
Brought up in an old-fashioned Presbyterian home, she had spent her childhood Sabbaths in memorizing scripture and Watt's hymns of the old hymn book.
Daily so long as she could read or hear reading, she was desirous of reading this knowledge. During her sickness, she liked to repeat the Lord's prayer , with others. Long after all power of speech had apparently failed her, she would repeat with another the familiar prayer.
Her last whispered utterances were a part of this prayer that she had learned in childhood and had repeated at the stated meeting at the country school house where the dominie came to catechize the children.
Her oldest sister, Mrs. M. M. Corning, of North Londonderry, NH., died the last of March, after a few days sickness, aged nearly 85 years. Mrs. Chickering did not know of her sister's death. They will now have had a happy reunion.
One younger brother survives her. There are quite a large circle of nephews and nieces.
Of her immediate family group, there are one daughter, Mrs. E. Chickering Abbott, and three sons, Mr. Milton Chickering, Mr. Samuel Chickering, and Otis Chickering, a teacher for many years and also a preacher.
Funeral services will be conducted by Rev. J. J. Blair Saturday afternoon at 3 o'clock at Mrs. Chickering's home on Essex Street. Friends invited without further notice. Should friends wish to view the remains previous to the funeral, they may do so Saturday forenoon.

(Andover Townsman, Friday, April 28, 1893)

Jonas Chickering is expected home from Europe in the next steamer, and the musical professors and amateurs of our city [Boston] are getting up to a grand reception for him. The old gentleman has well won the good esteem of all musical people coming this way. His rooms and pianos are always open to , and his universal benevolence and kindness of manner has not only secured for him troops of friends, but an independent fortune. Chickering is worth $300,000 : began business as a poor journeyman piano maker. His wife and children cut a tall , but they can't revamp the old man, he's the same old seven and sixpence stock he was born from.

(New York Times, Nov.4, 1851)

(The Rich Men of Massachusetts, 1851)

CHARLES F. CHICKERING

was a son of our former president, Jonas Chickering, the founder of the great house of Chickering & Sons, piano-forte manufacturers. Since 1871 Mr. Chickering has been at the head of the house. His residence was in New York, where he managed the branch house in that city. Like his honored father and brothers, Mr. Chickering was warmly interested in musical matters, and did much to encourage and to forward the interests of musicians and organizations devoted to the culture of the art in its most worthy forms. He was president of the Handel and Haydn Sociey more than thirty years ago, and it was during his term of office that the first festival was held, and at his suggestion. He was known as a man of sterling integrity, high-minded and conscientious to a degree. One circumstance in his life illustrated this. An acquaintance of known wealth, but very eccentric, asked him to keep a package for him. It was put into his safe, where it remained untouched for years. After the death of his friend, who alone knew of its existence, it was opened and found to contain securities to the amount of about $300,000. The heirs were notified, and then for the first time learned of the existence of the property. He joined our association in 1854, was a member thirty-seven years, and a life member. He died at his home in New York on the 23d day of March, at the age of sixty-three years, leaving a widow. His funeral was held at Trinity Church in this city, and a concourse of his friends and acquaintances, among whom were three hundred workmen from the factory of the firm in this city. The services were conducted by the Rev. Phillips Brooks, assisted by the Handel and Haydn Society and other noted musical bodies. [1891]

(Annals of the Massachusetts Charitable Mechanic Association, 1795-1892)

GEORGE H. CHICKERING, the only surviving son of the late Jonas Chickering, is the possessor of a name that has become famous in the annals of music and the music industry in America. Mr. Chickering was born in Boston on April 18, 1830, and attended a private school, as did all the sons of Mr. Chickering. The basis of his culture, universally admitted of all who have the pleasure of his personal acquaintance, is the education he received in this school, from which he at once entered as an apprentice in the factory of his father, located at that time in the then new structure on Franklin Square, on the site now occupied by the New England Conservatory of Music. Mr. Chickering, who had been working under the personal guidance of his renowned father, was instructed in the special art of making and voicing the hammers of grand pianos. He took a deep interest in the general construction of pianos and the science of acoustics, and the particular specialty known as tone production, and had advanced to such a degree of practical knowledge that when, in 1855, his father went to Europe, George H. Chickering had control of his own department and a general supervision of all factory matters. In fact, he became an integral part of the institution, and has ever since his entry at the factory been thoroughly indentified with the Chickering piano and its remarkable development, and the present great fame of the house and of its instruments is due to him more than to any other one man. Mr. Chickering has made occasional trips to Europe, and is very fond of travel. Most of his time on the occasions of his five visits to the old countries has been occupied in the famous museums adn art galleries of those lands. Those moments that can be spared from the actual operation of the great Chickering factory are devoted by him to his family, to musical affairs in Boston, with which he has always been prominently associated, and to matters of art, in which he is deeply interested. He is very well and very widely known, and to all is an authority on musical matters. His greatest ambition to-day is that the Chickering piano shall, if possible, be broought to a higher point than ever before, and so perpetuate the record of the house, and finish the life-work of his famoous family, that they may go down to posterity, not only as the founders of the American pianoforte industry, but as the inventors and practical introducers of those wonderful inventions in the early days of piano making, which made all subsequent improvements possible and made the concert grand of to-day, that triumph of mechanical genius, artistic skill, scientific research and indomitable labor, an accomplished fact. Personally, Mr. Chickering is a most modest and unassuming gentleman, absolutely devoid of the unwholesome self-infatuation so characteristic of the fin de siècle with even men of success and position. He is a very approachable man, and if he will he can talk for hours in an extremely interesting manner on all topics, whether musical, artistic, or otherwise. Mr. Chickering's residence is at Readville, Mass.

(Massachusetts of To-day, 1892)

THOMAS E. CHICKERING

was born in Boston in 1824. He was the oldest son of our former president Jonas Chickering, the celebrated pianoforte maker ; and the son learned the same business which he followed through life, and after the death of his father was the senior in the renowned firm of Chickering & Sons, whose unrivalled instruments have been familiar objects in the residences of our best citizens in all parts of the country for half a century, He was proficient in military matters, and held many offices from lieutenant to brigadier-general. Before the war he commanded the First Regiment of Infantry, but in 1862 was commissioned colonel of the Forty-first Regiment, which he commanded during the war. He was tendered a reception by the citizens of Boston and the members of this assocition on the occasion of the departure of his regiment for the seat of war, as noticed in the record of that year. He was for some years president of the Handel and Haydn Society. He joined our association in 1854, and served on the Board of Government. Colonel Chickering was a favorite in the city, where he had hosts of friends among the best class of our citizens. He was an upright, honorable man, very genial, social, and affable, and commanded the respect and esteem of all who know him. He died at the age of forty-seven years, leaving a widow, one son, and one daughter. [1871]

(Annals of the Massachusetts Charitable Mechanic Association, 1795-1892)

The magnitude and the importance of the piano-forte business in Boston has a signal illustration (since we have room for only one) in the note subjoined : -
DEAR SIR, - In reply to your request for statistics we will say, that Mr. Jonas Chickering began to manufacture Pianos in Boston, April 15, 1823. The first year he finished fifteen pianos. There were finished -

Should the same number be finished in 1881 and 1882 that were produced last year, it will be safe to call the product from 1873 to 1883, 21,928. We anticipate an increase in this number.

Truly yours,
CHICKERING & SONS.

(The Memorial History of Boston, 1880)

View of the Chickering Piano-forte Manufactory, Tremont Street, Boston

(Eighty Year's Progress of the United States, 1864)

Action room at Chickering manufactory, 1887

Chickering Hall, Boston, Mass. (Detroit Publishing Company, printed between 1900 and 1906)

(Library of Congress Photo Collection)

Daniel Gove [Clark]⁶ (Daniel⁵) of Boston, was b. at Pierpont, N. H., 24 Nov. 1827. He was in the employ of Chickering & Sons, pianoforte makers, for about fifteen years, and then became connected with Hallett, Davis & Co., and has been with thm fifteen years. He was a member of the common council of Roxbury in 1867, and of the school committee of Boston, 1870, 1871, 1872. He m. 20 June, 1853, at Lawrence, Mass. Sarah E. b. 30 No. 1832, at Brentwood, N. H., d. at Boston, Mass., 12 Aug. 1880, dau. of Eliphalet and Sarah E. Thing. His children, both b. at Roxbury, are
i. Frank Gove b. 11 Apr. 1855.
ii. Mattie Lincoln b. 14 May, 1860.

James H.⁶ [Clark] (Enoch⁵) of North Andover, Mass., was b. at Wentworth, N. H., 18 Oct. 1836, and d. at North Andover, 29 Apr. 1882. When eighteen years of age he left Wentworth, and entered the employ of the Chickering Piano Co. at Andover, Mass., and about 1863 removed to North Andover, and was in the employ of Davis, Fisher & Co., manufacturers of machinery for woolen factories. The following is from a notice of his death : "James H. Clark, a resident of the town for about twenty years, passed away last Saturday after a long and painful illness. He bravely combated the disease, but to little avail. He was a man of quiet disposition and excellent character. With his fellow workmen he was a great favorite." His friends speak of him as a man much beloved. He m. 2 June 1864, at Andover, Mass., Mary S. b. 7 Mar. 1837, at Alexandria, N. H., dau. of John and Susan Canney. She was the widow of Herbert J. Kenney, whom she m. 14 June, 1862, at Augusta, Ga. Their only child was
i. Nellie May b. 24 Feb. 1868, in North Andover, Mass.

(Genealogy of the descendants of Nathaniel Clarke, of Newbury, Mass., 1642-1885 )

Coleman, OTHO M., inventor, b. Barnstable, Ms., Jan. 23, 1817 ; d. Saratoga, N.Y., Apr. 5, 1845. Of German and English parentage. At the age of 16, he lived in New Bedford ; was relieved from extreme poverty by the sale of his invention of the automaton lady-minstrel and singing-bird for $800 ; removed to Saratoga in 1842, and invented the AEolian attachment to the piano-forte, for which he received $100,000 here, and $10,000 in Eng., whence he returned in Jan. 1845.

(Dictionary of American Biography, 1879)

(Important Events of the Century, 1876)

WILLIAM CUMSTON

was born in Saco, Me., in 1813. He will be remembered by a large number of our members as one of the larges and best pianoforte-makers ever known in this city. As a member of the firm of Hallet, Davis & Cumston, and later Hallet & Cumston, he was engaged in their manufacture nearly forty years. He was a man of singular executive ability, clear-headed and sagacious, on of those forceful men who compel circumstances to yield to their control. He joined our association in 1856, and served on the Board of Government. He was a man of strong patriotic sentiments, and during the war of the Rebellion was very liberal of his large means in promoting the comfort of our soldiers. As one of the "Ward Eleven Relief Committee" he was efficient and valuable. He was a director of the Metropolitan Railroad, the "Five Cents Saving Bank," and served in the Board of Aldermen. He was conspicuous in the higher bodies of Masonry, and his funeral was attended by DeMolay Commandery. He died at the age of fifty-eight years, leaving one son, James S. Cumston, a member of this association. [1870]

(Annals of the Massachusetts Charitable Mechanic Association, 1795-1892)

Most princely donations have been made to some of the companies of the 44th regiment. To Co. C, Captain Richardson, Wm. Cumston, Esq., of the firm of Hallett & Cumston, has presented a check for five hundred dollars.

(Letters from the Fourty-fourth Regiment M. V. M., 1863)

(A Memorial of Rev. Warren H. Cudworth, 1884)

EDMUND CURRIER, an early physician of Hopkinton died in 1811, aged about 44. His ancestry belonged to Salem. He married Betsey (Stanley) Alcock, daughter of Samuel Stanley, of Hopkinton. They had children - Amos, Edmund, David Carlton, Trueworthy Gilman, Ebenezer Bronson, Ariel Stillman. Edmund Currier, the son, was a clock-maker, and Ebenezer Bronson Currier was a piano-maker.

(Life and Times in Hopkinton, N. H., 1890)

Currier & Co. piano forte manufacturer, No. 393, Washington street, Manufacture all kinds of Upright & Horizontal Piano Fortes, warranted, of the best quality, (embracing the latest improvements,) & for sale upon the most reasonable terms. They have recently opened a ware room on the lower floor, where Ladies & Gentlemen are respectfully invited to call & see for themselves. A good assortment of Piano Forte Music constantly on hand. Second Hand Instruments taken in exchange. All orders punctually executed

(Boston Directory, 1830)

(Boston Directory, 1878)

Sarah Cleverly b. July 27, 1825 [dau. of Moses French, Boston]; m. Oct 31, 1844, George Hubbard Davis, a native of New Ipswich, N. H. She is his second wife. By his first wife, Charlotte Low, he had George Hubbard, still living ; Alvert, deceased. Mr. Davis resides in Boston, and is of the firm of Hallett, Davis & Co., piano-forte manufacturers, Washington Street. By his second wife, Sarah, he had Elizabeth French, b. Nov. 18, 1848.

(The Vinton Memorial, 1858)

GEORGE H. DAVIS

was born in New Hampshire in 1811. He became a well-known piano-forte maker, and was at first located in Fitchburg. He commenced business whan young, and through life was regarded as among the most skilful, energetic, and able manufacturers of the country. He was one of the well known firm of Hallet, Davis, & Cumston, and later of Hallet, Davis, & Co. In 1855 they purchased a large factory on Franklin square, which was subsequently destroyed by fire. They then built a large factory on Harrison avenue, where the business is still carried on by their successors. He was burnt out and met with other annoyances, but he had energy and will and pushed forward. Ambitious to give a world-wide reputation to his instrument, and promote musical art, he was active in the "Peace Jubilees" held in this city after the close of the rebellion, greatly to his cost. With delicate health for many years, his great interest in the details of his business and his attention to matters of public concern kept him alive and busy, and he only succombed to paralysis. He joined our association in 1855, and seved on the board of government. Mr. Davis was a man of great push and enterprise, a poower in whatever he became interested in. He was a popular man of good adress, of unimpeachable integrity, a good citizen, an honor to his craft and to the State. He died at the age of sixty-eight years. [1879]

(Annals of the Massachusetts Charitable Mechanic Association, 1795-1892)

George L. Dodd was born in Portland, Me., and was carried to Boston in infancy. His father was a contractor and pattern maker, and followed that business forty years in Boston. He was afterward engaged in the piano business. When a young man, his son, the subject of this sketch, entered a piano manufactory, and remained in the business until he had mastered its every branch and risen to the superintendency of an establishment. In the latter relation he was employed several years by the celebrated firm of Guild, Church & Co. In 1874 he resigned, and since that time has followed the business of tuning. At about the same time he took up a residence in Monmouth, where he had, for several years, had a summer residence as guest of his uncle, Richard C. Dodd.
Mr. Dodd is an accomplished pianist. His performanecs with which the villagers are occasionally facored, at evening parties, are rare and long remembered musical feasts. He married Caroline, daughter of Aaron Stanton. They have one daughter, Ida L., a young lady who inherits her father's musical taste.

(History of Monmouth and Wales, 1894)

WILLIAM P. EMERSON

was born in Boston in 1820. He learned the trade of pianoforte maker, and was successfully engaged in the manufacture of those instruments all his life. Mr. Emerson was a man of a prompt and decided temperament, quick in action, keen in business, shrewd and sagacious, and did a large business. His output in the year 1866 was nearly one thousand instruments. His factory, which was located at the corner of Albany and Wareham streets, was burned in 1878. He joined our association in 1856. He died at the age of fifty years, leaving a widow and three daughters. [1871]]

(Annals of the Massachusetts Charitable Mechanic Association, 1795-1892)

William P. Emerson (1866), piano manufacturer, of Brooklin, son of Nathaniel and Elsey (Austin) Emerson, was born in Boston, Oct. 22, 1820 he married (1), Aug. 3, 1842, Sarah A. Harbach, who died April 26, 1854 ; and, (2) July 11, 1855, Harriet M. Mofatt. He spent his boyhood in Boston, and for several years attended the Mason Street School. He early learned the trade of manufacturing pianos, and applied himself with so much perseverence that he won the repution of being the fourth largest manufacturer in the United States.
Mr. Emerson (1866) died suddenly, April 19, 1871.

(History of the Military Company of the Massachusetts, 1898)

WILLIAM P. EMERSON,

PIANO-FORTE MANUFACTURER,

395 Washington Street,

BOSTON.

Piano Fortes to Let, Tuned and Repaired.

(Boston Almanac, 1856)

EMERSON PIANO-FORTES

THE EMERSON PIANO COMPANY

Are desirous that their instruments be subjected to the strictest tests. By care in selecting materials, and by rigorously insisting upon perfect work, they produce instruments that are ABSOLUTELY UNSURPASSED. The mechanism of the Piano-Forte is simple and easily understood. There is no secret or mystery about it, as some shrewd ad- vertisers would have the public believe. The solidity of the frame and case, the well-chosen, well-seasoned and well-wrought wood of the sounding-board, the perfection of the hammers, dampers and strings ; the unyielding firmness of the pins, the scientific voicing and tuning - these are the elements necessary to form Perfect and Satisfactory Tone.

[  More than three thousand of these pianos have been made and sold, and the Standard of Excellence was never so high as now. Superior Upright Pianos to Rent. Every Piano Warranted for Seven Years.]

To persons of musical taste, willing to trust their own ears, the Company submits its instru- ments, confidently that in sonority, evenness, crisp action, sustaining power and durability, they are not anywhere excelled.

WAREROOMS, 595 WASHINGTON STREET, BOSTON.

(Boston Directory, 1879)

OREN JEROME FAXON, , b. in Brockton, Mass., (North Bridgewater,) Oct. 15, 1818, son of Oren and Theodora Billings (Mann) Faxon, m. Dec. 27, 1849, Mary Ann Matilda Goodridge. He is a manufacturer of piano-forte hardware, and resides in Boston.

(History of the Faxon family, 1880)

Foster & Felt, manufacturers of organs, Æolian seraphines, Woodward & Brown's piano fortes, &c., employ from 8 to 12 hands.

(Keene; A Gazetteer of New Hampshire, 1855)

(Boston Daily Globe, June 29, 1878)

(Boston Directory, 1889)

(Scientific American, 1846)

LEMUEL GILBERT

(Annals of the Massachusetts Charitable Mechanic Association, 1795-1892)

Friday, Jan. 25.
Thu Memphis (Tenn.) Avalanche that Lemuel Gilbert, proprietor of the well known Boston piano establishment, was ordered to leave Shreveport. The committee appointed by a meeting of citizens reported their discharge of "duty" as follows:
The committee waited upon Mr. Lemuel Gilbert and delivered him a copy of the foregoing preamble and resolutions, with the request that the requisitions of the first resolution be strictly obeyed, when the wild Gilbert acknowledged that he had voted for Fremont, and expressed regrets for having done so and further, denies that he purports to be from Boston, and says he is a resident now of Memphis, Tenn. but promised strict obedience the mandate, and, in accordance thereto, leaves this evening on the Grand Duke.

(The Berkshire County Eagle (Pittsfield, Mass.), 1861)

PATENT AEOLIAN
PIANO FORTE MANUFACTORY
[The Building represented above was erected in 1847, and first occu- pied in 1848. The name of the original firm was CURRIER & GILBERT, and for twenty years was located at 402 & 406 Washington Street, Mr. GILBERT doing business alone during a portion of the time. The firm is now]
T. GILBERT & CO.
No. 400 WASHINGTON STREET
T. GILBERT W. H. JAMESON.	}	BOSTON.

(Dorchester Directory, 1850)

400 Washington Street.

The only manufacturers of Coleman's Patent Æolian
Attachment for Massachusetts.

(A Hand Book of Business in Lowell, 1856)

TIMOTHY GILBERT

(Annals of the Massachusetts Charitable Mechanic Association, 1795-1892)

F. L. GOLDSMITH,
	DEALER IN
	Rosewood and Mahogany
	VENEERS,
	AND FANCY WOODS.
	Job Turning, Circular and Band Sawing, Fancy Woods cut to order. Piano Desk Brackets, Prop- sticks, Top Stripping, Cabinet and Stair Builders' Wire Nails.
	Entrance, 36 1/2 Chardon St.,
	BOSTON.

(Boston Directory, 1878)

Pianos sold on MONTHLY OR QUARTERLY PAID INSTALLMENTS,  without charging the exhorbitant prices usually prevailing on this plan.
GUILD, CHURCH & CO.
(Successors to Geo. M. Guild & Co.)
MANUFACTURERS OF
Grand and Square
Piano-Fortes.
Musical Novelty.
The remark is frequently made, "I should like a Piano-Forte, but my rooms are small and I cannot afford to buy one." The question is often asked, "Why cannot a Piano be made smaller than the ordinarty "full size" with a corresponding small price, having a good tone, action and a well finished case?" The above question has been fully answered by GUILD, CHURCH & CO., Boston, who include in the manufacture of elegant Grand and Square Piano Fortes, their "Popular Parlor Favorite" - overstrung, full iron frames, good tone and action, and THOROUGHLY MADE IN EVERY PARTICULAR. They are not more than two thirds as large as the "full size" Piano-Fortes, and can be sold for less than the wholesale price of large Pianos.   For testimonials we refer to over SEVEN THOUSAND of our Pianos now in use through- out the United States and elsewhere. A large assortment of stools and covers co- stantly on hand.
Warerooms 881 Washington Street.
GEO. M. GUILD, CEPHAS CHURCH, GEORGE HEWS.	Call and see them or send for an Illustrated Catalogue.	BOSTON.

(Newton Directory, 1871)

(Boston Daily Globe, Dec. 2, 1875)

PIANOS.
Established 1861.	Nearly 20,000 now in use.
GUILD, CHURCH, & CO.,
175 B TREMONT ST., BOSTON.
Correspondence Solicited.

(Boston City Directory, 1885)

Prentiss, Harriet B.; m. Russell Hallett, piano-fore maker, residence, Brookline, Mass., who d. from a cancer there, 1881-2, and also his wife of the same in 1882.

(The History and Genealogy of the Prentice, or Prentiss Family, in New England, 1883)

HALLETT & CUMSTON,

MANUFACTURERS OF

Grand, Parlor Grand, and Square

PIANO-FORTES,

With their IMPROVED BRIDGE, and POWERFUL RE- PEATING ACTION, WHICH SURPASSES ANY THING NOW IN USE.

AT THE OLD STAND,

339 WASHINGTON STREET,

BOSTON

Purchasers are particularly requested to visit our rooms be- fore buying elsewhere.   N. B. - Second-hand Piano-Fortes taken in exchange for new. Piano-Fortes to let.

(Newburyport Directory, 1860)

(Boston City Directory, 1885)

Clara H., b. May 30, 1830 [dau. of James, Plainfield, Mass.]; m. Benjamin F. Hallett (piano mauf., of Boston), and resides at Florence, Mass.

(Thomas Joy and his Descendants, 1900)

HALLET, DAVIS & CO

Warerooms 409 Washington Street, near Boylston Market, Boston, Mass.

MANUFACTURERS OF

Grand, Parlor Grand and Square

PIANO-FORTES,

With Patent Suspension Bridge, Composition Bearings, and Repeating Grand Action.

EVERY PIANO FULLY WARRANTED.

  As a proof of the superiority of our Pianos, which contain improvements that cannot be found in those of any other make, we have received TWELVE FIRST PREMIUMS within the last eight years. As a further testimony see following extracts, from among the many letters received : -

  After the many severe tests that I have given your instruments, I unhesitatingly pronounce them eminently superior in action, elasticity of touch, and power of tone, to any I have ever used in this or the old country. Another striking feature in both your Grand and Square Pianos, (and where others too often fail,) is their remaining in tune under the heaviest and most difficult playing, not a string shattering of flatting, and the action remaining so perfect that the performer is enabled, at all times, to give instantaneous effect to emphatic passages. I am, Gentlemen, yours, very sincerely,
Boston, Sept. 1855.          GUSTAVE SATTER.
  Owing to the beautiful elasticity of the action of your Grand Piano-Fortes, (which possess the same qualities as the action that has contributed to give Erard his world-wide reputation,) I think it would be impossible for any pianist wo played properly, to break either a string or a hammer. I certainly never have broken them. In conclusion, I beg to express to you my perfect satisfaction, in every respect, with regard to your Grand Piano-Fortes.
Very truly yours,          WM. MASON.

(Sights in Boston and Suburbs, 1857)

Crowning Triumph Hallet, Davis, & Co. Piano.

Testimony from the highest Musical Authorities in the World, viz. : F. LISZT, the First Pianist in the World ; Prof. Dr. THEOD. KULLAK, Director Academy Music, Berlin, and Court Pianist ; Prof. JOS. JOACHIM, Director Royal Academy of Music, Berlin ; JOSEPH GUNGL, Director of Music to King of Prussia, and Leader of Orchestra to Emperor of Austria ; GUST. REICHARDT, Chief Director of Music to King of Prussia ; ET. SOUBRE, Director Royal Conservatory of Music at Liege, Belgium ; FRANZ BRENDEL, Pupil of LISZT, Berlin ; J. NEILISSOV, Court Pianist, St. Petersburg ; THEO. RATZENBERG, Pianist to the Court in Dusseldorf ; DIRECTORS OF THE CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC, Leipzig, and from the leading Musical Papers of Germany, freely admitting that their own manufacturers are "unable to build such splendid instruments," and pronounce HALLET, DAVIS & CO. "ahead of all other makers."
Forty-three premiums awarded in this country! More than 16,000 Pianos manufactured! House established 28 years! Pianos used in the leading Conservatories in the United States, and Public Schools of Boston. Prices ranging from $340 to $1,400. Every instrument warranted for ten years. Send for illustrated catalogue, free.

HALLET, DAVIS & CO, 272 Washington St., Boston.

(Boston Illustrated, 1872)

(Boston Daily Globe, Dec. 2, 1875)

HALLET, DAVIS & CO.,
SQUARE, UPRIGHT AND GRAND
OUR PATENT "UPRIGHT,"	the only one receiving a premium at the Cen-
tennial Exposition, as positively sure to stand in tune.   All intending to buy Pianos should consider the unsurpassed musical purity and power of tones, with the styles and workmanship of our instruments.
WAREROOMS, 436 WASHINGTON ST., BOSTON, MASS.
Send for Catalogue, naming this book

(The Housekeepers' Friend, 1880)

Hallet and Davis Company's Pianoforte Manufactory,
Harrison Avenue, between Canton and Brookline streets.

The Hallet and Davis Company are among the piano-forte manufacturers whose names are famous throughout the civilized world. Ever since they began business in 1843, the firm name has remained practically unchanged. They have made and sold upwards of 25,000 piano-fortes of the best grades. They have received about 60 premiums, two-thirds of which were first premiums, over all competitors. At the Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia their upright piano was the only one that received special mention. The judges awarded the medal of honor and certificate of distinction in the following clear and positive language : "To Hallet, Davis & Co.'s grand, upright, and square piano, for volume of tone, good construction, and excellence of workmanship, and because of originality of design and artistic skill in their upright instruments, with ingenious combination of mechanical devices for securing permanence in tune." The late George H. Davis of this firm was the inventor and patentee of a particular construction in upright pianos that will cause them to stand in tune as long as any grand or square piano, and at the same time have a quantity and quality of tone fully equal to that of any grand piano. The factory is on Harrison Avenue, between Canton and Brookline Streets, is well shown in the accompanying illustration. It is a large six-story brick building, having a frontage of nearly 400 feet on the streets. It was built in 1866 to replace the building burned in 1864. The latter stood where the St. James Hotel now stands, and at the time of the fire contained 326 pianos in process of manufacture. The present building has a floor surface of about three acres. In it nearly 3,000 pianos can be made in one year. Between 500 and 600 pianos are being made at all times. It is one of the only two factories in New England in which all parts of a piano are made and put together in one building. The Whittier Machine Company put in the engines, boiler, and elevator. In the rear is a yard of half an acre for seasoning lumber. The Boston office and warerooms occupy the second floor of the beautiful stone building, 436 Washington Street, at the corner of Summer Street. The Hallet & Davis Company have warerooms and agencies in all the principal cities of the United States.

(King's Hand Book of Boston, 1881)

(Boston Almanac, 1848)

GEORGE HEWS

was a son of John Hews, a furniture dealer, and was born in the city of Cambridge, Mass. He received an excellent musical education, becoming a successful teacher, organist, and composer. He was also a pianoforte-maker, and as such joined our association in 1842. He was a skilful performer, and, being personally of a genial and winning nature, was a great favorite among his acquaintances, and his standing in social life was deservedly high. His life work, like his native temperament , was always in the direction of harmony, filled with pleasant tones without a discordant note. [1873]

(Annals of the Massachusetts Charitable Mechanic Association, 1795-1892)

HEWS'S PATENT AMERICAN ACTION PIANO-FORTE.

Manufactory, No. 379 Washington Street, Boston.

(Boston Almanac, 1856)

(Bston Directory, 1875)

GEORGE HOWE

was born in Milford, N.H., in 1809. He learned the business of pianoforte-making, and was for about thirty years in the employ of Jonas Chickering. He was afterward connected with Hallet & Davis, and later was in business for himself. Mr. Howe was a very able man, of large mechanical ability, of keen perception, thoroughly self-taught, and successful in whatever he undertook. He joined our association in 1865. In 1867 he retired from business with a competence. He was a prominent Swedenborgian, a man of excellent attainements, of marked refinement, courteous and deservedly popular with all who knew him. By a most lamentable railroad-accident, he and his wife were killed on the first day of August, 1871. They left two daughters, the wives of two prominent citizens of Boston. [1871]

(Annals of the Massachusetts Charitable Mechanic Association, 1795-1892)

(History of New Ipswitch, 1914)

(The Humphreys Family in America)

(Genealogical and Personal Memoirs Relating to the Families of Boston and Eastern Massachusetts, 1908)

(Boston City Directory, 1885)

IVERS & POND PIANOS.
	OVER 100 OF THESE PIANOS HAVE BEEN SOLD TO THE NEW ENGLAND CONSER- VATORY OF MUSIC OF BOSTON, DURING THE LAST SIX YEARS.
	They are pronounced the best by SCHOOLS AND COLLEGES all over the UNITED STATES.
	Sold on Easy Payments and Satisfaction Guaranteed.
	WAREROOMS:
	181 & 182 TREMONT STREET, BOSTON, MASS.
	Factories, Main, cor. Albany St. Cambridgeport.

(Cambridge Directory, 1888)

WADE HAMPTON JEWETT (son of Thomas,...) was born in Newburyport, Mass., March 3, 1819. He married in Amesbury, Mass,, in 1843, Abigail Baily Bartlett, who was born in Amesbury Sept. 23, 1816, daughter of James and Sarah (Goodridge) Bartlett of Amesbury. Mr. Jewett was a piano-forte manufacturer and established the business in Leominster, Mass., in 1860. He died in Leominster Aug. 27, 1894. His wife died there April 4, 1886.

(he Jewett family of America, 1913)

WADE H. JEWETT, the senior member of this firm, was born in Amesbury, Mass., March 4, 1819. In 1840 he formed a co-partnership with his brother, A. H. Jewett, and began the business of manufacturing fine furniture. This firm was dissolved in 1847, and Mr. Jewett removed to Worcester, where he entered the employ of Daniel Wilder, and learned the art of making piano cases. He was afterward employed by R. L. & D. W. Goss at Montague, Mass., and in 1856 came to Leominster, where he found employment in the piano case manufactory of Gove & Howard. In 1861 Mr. Jewett formed a co-partnership with the late George A. Allen in the firm known as Allen & Jewett, manufacturers of piano-fortes and piano cases. The factory of this firm was destroyed by fire in Feb., 1864, and was a total loss, there being no insurance on building or contents. They pluckily rose from the ashes, however, obtained accomodations in another locality, and continued the business until 1869, when Mr. Allen retired. Mr. Jewett remained alone until Oct., 1870, when R. B. Richardson of Woburn became asssociated with him under the firm name of W. H. Jewett & Co. Early in 1885 this firm dissolved, Mr. Richardson retiring, and Mr. Jewett's two sons, W. P. and W. G. Jewett, and a nephew, F. J. Woodbury, became interested in the business under the old firm name. These young men have been connected with the factory from boyhood, thus becoming thoroughly practical in the art of piano making, which, combined with a complete commercial education, enables them to successfully conduct the business, which has made rapid strides of advancement under their managemenent.

W. H. Jewett piano factory, Leominster

(Leominster, Mass. Historical and Picturesque, 1888)

American Genius Triumphant...

  The intelligent Paris correspondent of the N. Y. Times, mentions, in a late letter, the gratifying fact that an American piano, manufactured by A. W. Ladd, of Boston, has been found worthy of a prize by the International Jury. This result justified, fully, the general opinion expressed of this piano, in our hearing, by several operators. They declared that it felt better under the touch than any of the pianos on Exhibition, thus expressing the highest possible compliment to the mechanical skill displayed in its construction.
  "The specimen in question is to obtain a silver medal, and the President of the Jury informed the agent that, had it been in tune, it would doubtless have won a gold one. This is altogether the most significant result that can possibly be furnished to Americans by the Exposition of France. That a piano from Boston should come unheralded into the domain of the famous instruments of Erard, Pleyel, and Herz, and only miss the first prize by an accident of inattention, is truly remarkable."

(Scientific American, Sept. 22, 1855)

ALBERT W. LADD & CO.
	Manufacturers of and Dealers in
	PIANO FORTES
	CABINET ORGANS AND MELODEONS,
296 and 298 Washington Street, Boston.
Pianos Tuned and Repaired in the best manner. PIANOS TO LET
Old or New pianos taken in exchange

(New Bedford Directory, 1867)