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Band Organizations
This page is about the various fraternals, organizations and societies of Hall County, Nebraska.
Band Organizations
The Union Cornet band completed organization in June, 1874, with S. S. Naylor, director, S. P. Mobley, Joseph Fox and Geo. E. Wilson, trustees, and N. P. Kelley, secretary. This organization resulted from a refusal of its predecessor, the old Grand Island band, to play on July 4. D. G. Phimister was its early director in 1874. It lived about a year and then went the way of many cornet bands. The Cornet band organized in June, 1876, with J. W. West, president, J. W. Rogers, treasurer, Jay E. White, secretary, and rend ered effective services for many years. The Germania band came in
during the 'eighties, and the MaCadden Cornet band was organized in 1887.
No attempt has been made to list the inter vening bands during the last thirty years. But at the present time Grand Island has a splendid band led by Guy L. Harrison. There are also several efficient orchestras furnishing music for various social occasions, Seebohm's, Schlictings, Brase's, Ole's Syneopators.
Cited Source:
A. F. Buechler and R. J. Barr, editors. "Fraternals and Social Organziations of Hall Cuonty: Band Organizations," History of Hall County Nebraska (Lincoln, NE: Western Publishing and Engraving Company, 1920): 381. Provided by the Prairie Pioneer Genealogical Society, Grand Island, Nebraska.
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