American organist and composer, born in Greenfield, MA, on the 23rd of June 1851. He studied under Dudley Buck at Hartford, CT, and in Germany under August Haupt and others. He attracted the attention of the masters in Europe, and upon his return to the United States in 1875 was elected organist of the First Congregational Church in Chicago. In 1879 he became organist for the First Presbyterian Church in that city. In addition, he has been, since 1877, director of the Hershey School of Musical Art of Chicago. He gave concerts at the Centennial Exposition of 1876 and the Paris International Exhibition of 1889. He is the author of a number of preludes and other classic forms. He has published a collection, The Church and Concert Organist (1882), and a translation of Haupt’s Theory of Counterpoint and Fugue (1876). In 1896 he was accorded the unusual distinction of honorary membership in the St. Cecilia Academy in Rome.
