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Frank R. Seltzer

Born	(1863-12-21)December 21, 1863 Philadelphia
Died	July 25, 1924(1924-07-25) (aged 60) Philadelphia
Avocation	Cornetist, composer, Bandmaster, Music educator
Idiom	American march music

Frank R. Seltzer (21 December 1863 Philadelphia – 25 July 1924 Philadelphia) was an influential late-19th-century-early-20th-century American virtuoso cornetist and internationally acclaimed composer of military marches scored for 20th-century wind ensembles. He integrated his music career vertically and horizontally across a spectrum of at least fourteen distinguishable vocations: (1) featured virtuoso cornetist, notably in Sousa's first touring band, (2) bandmaster, (3) composer, (4) early recording artist, (5) A&R director, (6) arranger, (8) fair labor advocate as a member of, and as a dispute-referee for musicians unions, (8) cornet designer and small independent manufacturing entrepreneur, (9) music educator, (10) music publisher, (11) celebrity brander for Frank Holton & Co., (12) author and publisher of music pedagogy for brass players, (13) music trade magazine columnist, and (14) inaugural dean in 1922, head instructor, and first conductor as substitute in performances of the then newly established Patrick Conway Military Band School at the Ithaca Conservatory of Music – the forerunner of today's Wind Ensemble of the Ithaca College School of Music.

Childhood

Soldiers' Orphans School, Chester Springs, Pennsylvania

Seltzer's German-born father, who he never really knew, was killed during the American Civil War while serving in the Union Army with the 98th Pennsylvania Infantry. Growing up with his German-born mother Helena (1835–1891) residing in Philadelphia from about 1871 to about 1978 at 7 Iron Place in the Fishtown neighborhood, close to the Delaware River, then, about a 1.8 mile walk north at 2233 Orianna Street in the Norris Square area of West Kensington, North Philadelphia

Helena worked as a tailor. Helena lived at 22 Miller Street when she died.

Frank's father's name was likely Ignatz, the German form of Ignatius. Or his name was George or John.

Frank Seltzer attended the Soldiers' Orphans School at Chester Springs, Pennsylvania, about 36 miles west of Philadelphia. At the school, among other things, beginning at the age of 12, Seltzer began playing the tuba; and there, later, he learned to play the E♭ cornet, an instrument that, by the 1920s had become rare. Children at the school, when they turned sixteen, were referred to affectionately and officially by the school and community as "Sixteeners." Frank's older brothers, Charles Seltzer (1857–????) and Joseph Harry Seltzer (1861–1923) were also a Sixteeners from the same school, classes of 1873 and 1877, respectively.

• Soldier's Orphans School, Chester Springs, 1872

At the age of 16 years, 5 months and 10 days, Seltzer graduated as a Sixteener, May 31, 1880.

Early career in map publishing

• After graduation, Seltzer returned to his mother's home in North Philadelphia at 2233 Orianna Street in the Norris Square area of West Kensington.

• He began learning the trade of (i) lithography (engraving), (i) cartography (map making), and (iii) map publishing, first with the firm of Griffith Morgan Hopkins, a civil engineer, cartographer, and map publisher whose firm was located at 320 Walnut Street.

• After several years at this occupation (his salary had been raised to $3.00 per), the indoor work not agreeing with him he found employment at the E.H. Fitler & Company rope-making plant in Bridesburg (about 7 miles north of downtown Philadelphia) headed by Edwin Henry Fitler, then, the former mayor of Philadelphia. Seltzer worked there until the day he got injured by a whirling belt that "quickly whirled him into space." In this encounter our young cornetist came out second best, receiving injuries which kept him housed for more than three months. A broken lower limb, a few shattered ribs, the loss of several teeth and the roof of his mouth so badly splintered that at the time there was no further thought of cornet playing were the resultant features of his attempt at ropemaking.

• His recovery from the little "goaround" with machinery found him cured of further inclinations to hard work and he once more turned his attention to the old trade of lithography, engraving, and map publishing, finding employment with August H. Mueller (1857–1926) at 530 Locust Street in Philadelphia, where he remained until he had fitted himself for entrance into the professional ranks of musicians. For this much credit is due to the generosity of Mr. Mueller, as he furthered Frank's advancement in the study of music through always permitting him to attend to whatever playing engagements presented themselves, thus being of great assistance to the young student.

• In 1886 young Frank Seltzer turned his back upon the industrial and entered into the art of music as a means of livelihood, playing his first professional engagement with J. Fred Zimmerman at Cape May, New Jersey, for the summer season. During the spring and fall, Zimmerman was manager of the Chestnut Street Opera House. The booking came late; every capable man had already been signed, hence Frank was only accorded a trial. From that trial up to the- present day the success of Mr. Seltzer has been truly phenomenal, for he has been idle scarcely a day in winter or summer during the past 84 years. Space forbids detailed enumeration of his various bookings, nor is it necessary as a matter of record in what is a brief life story and not a compendium of statistics. Nevertheless, the writer has learned through one of his sources of information that Friend Frank has an authentic record of every engagement played by him since the time of his first connection with amateur bands in 1882. This record embraces the date, day of the week, where and what the engagement was, with whom it was played and the remuneration received for each.

Marriage

Seven years after graduation, Seltzer married a Sixteener classmate, Mary E. Monaghan (1862–1952) in Philadelphia.

• After school, Seltzer began learning a business trade as a map engraver and simultaneously studied music.

Music career

1886

• Seltzer became a professional musician in 1886 playing cornet with J.F. Zimmermann at Cape May.

1886, 1887

• Seltzer was a member of the Germania Theatre Company Orchestra, conducted by Paul Sentz (1843–1929), which performed at the Belmont Mansion in Philadelphia during summer engagements. He also performed with the theater orchestras on Chestnut and Walnut Streets in Philadelphia.

1890

• Seltzer performed as cornet soloist with the 1st Regiment Band of Philadelphia in concerts at Fairmount Park, and later, directed the band.

1892

• During the Summer 1892, Seltzer performed with the Ellis L. Brooks' (1848–1920) Military Band at Nantasket Beach.

• From the fall of 1892 through the fall of 1894, Seltzer played first trumpet with the John Philip Sousa band on its initial tour.

• Seltzer then performed with the Herald Square Theater in New York when, in 1894, had accepted an appointment to served as Bandmaster of Pope's Band in Hartford, a position he held until 1897.

1895

• Seltzer in 1895, accepted a five-year contract to serve as bandmaster of the 2nd Regiment Band of Springfield, Massachusetts.

1897

• In 1897, Seltzer accepted a position as cornet soloist with the Band of the First Regiment Infantry National Guard of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, the regiment having been established in 1861 and ceased in 1911. Samuel Heritage Kendle (surname also spelled "Kindle"; 1856–1917) was the band's longstanding director was

Seltzer, in the 1880s, played trumpet with the Cape May and Atlantic City orchestras.

• Paul Sentz (1843–1929) Band in Philadelphia
• John Wanamaker Band of New York? or Philadelphia

Former directors"

* John Sabia

* Arthur A. Rosander

* Henri Elkan

* Charles Sanglear (nl) (1881–1915)

• Mark Hassler (1834–1906) Band in Philadelphia
• William D. Bastert (1866–1942) Band in Philadelphia

• Frederick Neil Innes (1854–1926)

Fourteen years while living in New York, as early as 1899 and as late as 1903

• Thomas F. Shannon's (1862–1934) 23rd Regiment Band, New York National Guard, Manhattan.
• Charles John Crowley's (1848–1918) 8th Regiment Band, National Guard of New York
• Henry Richard Humphries' (1846–1925) 7th Regiment Band, National Guard of New York
• William Bayne's (1840–1922) 69th Regiment Band, New York City
• Luciano Conterno's (1839–1910) 14th Regiment Band, National Guard of New York
• For years, director of the East River Park Concerts in New York (in 1899 is soloed on cornet with John A. Boswald's Military Band in the East River Park
• In 1899, while Seltzer was performing as cornetist with the 69th Regiment Band in New York City, Tom Clark (1854–1943) — a London-born cornetist and organizer-director of the first Columbia Phonograph Company Band — engaged Seltzer for all the Columbia Phonograph recordings. Seltzer recorded nearly every day for Columbia, recording during the day and playing in orchestras in the evenings, until about 1903.

Other jobs

• Seltzer, in 1908, took over as Bandmaster of the First Infantry Band National Guard of Delaware and held the position until about 1914. The band was founded in 1900 under the direction of Bandmaster Walter D. Walls (1869–1907), a Wilimgton-based cornetist who died in 1907 of tuberculosis.

August 1919 Early August 1919, towards the end of a summer engagement performing with Conway's Band at the Steel Pier in Atlantic City, Seltzer was stricken with life-threatening symptoms from diabetes, namely gangrene. He was rushed from his hotel in Atlantic City to Jefferson Hospital in Philadelphia (about 62 miles), where he was, under the care of two physicians, treated and underwent minor surgery.

May, June, July 1922

• Seltzer was solo cornetist for about 6 weeks, beginning May 19, 1922, with the 1st Infantry Band, in Wilmington, Delaware, directed by John Norris Robinson (1865–1960).

• Victor Herbert

• Seltzer performed as cornetist with Patrick Conway's band 25 consecutive summers.

• Director of Edison Phonograph Band Records for a number of years

He was an early recording musician: in New York played nearly every day for the Columbia Phonograph Company, recording during the day and playing in orchestras in the evenings 1899-1903. Then a similar function at the Edison Company from about 1903 to about 1907. Seltzer played trumpet with the Philadelphia Orchestra from 1907 to 1912. He created a musical publishing business.

Seltzer belonged to the Ellis Brook's Band and the Sousa Band as a cornet player. For the Jacob's Band Monthly, he wrote articles from 1916 until his death, which included a monthly biographies, "Famous Bandmasters in Brief."

Short tenure at Ithaca College

September 15, 1922 Seltzer became assistant dean and Head Instructor of the The Patrick Conway Military Band School at Ithaca College. That same year, he moved his publishing company, Philo Music, to Ithaca, New York. Because Conway had a prior engagement conducting the Syracuse Theater pit orchestra, Seltzer, for the first month or two, ran the band rehearsals and conducted its first two performances. Seltzer and the woodwinds instructor, Fred Livingston (né Frederick Harry Livingston; 1873–1945), resigned before the first school-year ended.

Composing, publishing, and instrument manufacturing

Around 1917, Seltzer became general manager of the Philo Music Company in Philadelphia.

Commemorations to the Soldiers' Orphans School

In 1908, Seltzer composed a march, "Zim's Assembly March," to commemorate his classmate from Soldiers' Orphans School, George Zimmerman (1866–1941), originally from Allentown, and, after graduation, went on to become a public servant in Allentown. In 1922, he composed "The Sixteeners," a march with words commemorating alumni of the Soldiers' Orphans School.

11 – Celebrity endorsements

• Frank Holton & Co. cornets
• Cornetist's Alphabet, by Antonio A. De La Mora (1984–1926), De La Mora Publishing Company, Meridian, Mississippi (1918), Sherman Clay, agents; OCLC 12956929

Era

The military bands that Seltzer performed with – notably Sousa, Conway, and Pryor – were influential in organization of thousands of town, factory, department store, and even prison bands — throughout North America — that flourished in America beginning after the Civil War, particularly from the about the mid-1880s to just prior to World War I. Leon Mead (né William Leon Mead; 1861–1927), reported in Harper's Weekly Supplement in 1889 that there were over 10,000 military bands in the United States. The popularity was also prominent in Great Britian and also throughout the rest of Europe. The era has been called the "Golden Age of Military Bands" and is recognized as the forerunner to the rapid growth of the band movement throughout North America in scholastic and collegiate education that began after World War I.

Professional affiliations

Seltzer had been a member of Local No. 77, American Federation of Musicians, in Philadelphia.

Health

Beginning 1919, Seltzer suffered from diabetics, which developed into blood poisoning and gangrene. Seltzer's grand-nephew – by way of his brother, Joseph Harry Seltzer (1861–1923) – Holbrooke Stroud Seltzer, MD (1917–1997), later became a notable researcher toward the goal of finding a cure for diabetes.

Selected compositions

As a composer, he wrote works for wind orchestras. Compositions Working for concert band

Before 1895

• "Assembly March"
• "Snow Queen" ("La Reina De Las Nieves"), novelette, arranged by James M. Fulton (1909)
• "Brandywine Springs" (1908)
• "Star March" (circa 1895), dedicated to the Star Lacrosse Club of Ottawa, Canada

J.R. Lafleur & Son, Ltd.: Fife & Drum Journal

• "Honour Bright," quick march (1898)

J.F. Bellois, Jr., Philadelphia

• "Vindicator March, The" (1896)
• "Proposal March, The" (1896)
• "Chinese Triumphal March" (1896)
• "Wake Up Coons," negro characteristic, for band (1900)

Choudens (M.), Paris

• "My Little Sweetheart," song and dance schottische (1905)

Carl Fischer

• "American Standard Polka," cornet solo (1903)
• "Clash of Arms," march (1905)
• "Adulation" (19??)
• "Bold Front," march (1905)
• "Sleepy Sam," in E♭ (1906)

Harry Coleman, Philadelphia

• "Sweet Little Daisies," schottische (1895)
• "Old Homestead," march (1895)
• "Hartford Post March, The" (1895)
• "The New Columbia March" (1895), dedicated to Colonel Albert A. Pope, manufacturer of the New Columbia bicycle
• "Twin Brothers Schottische" (1895)
• "Pope's Band March" (1896)
• "Rosedale March" (1896)
• "Algonquin March" (1905)
• "Royal Trumpeters March, The" (1905)
• "National March and Two-step, The" (1905)
• "Seltzer's Snappy Siftings," lanciers (1906)

Coeuille-Seltzer, Philadelphia

• "Pretty Black-Eyed Susan," song and dance (1907)
• "The Telescope," march (1907), named for the Telescope trumpet that he, in partnership with Ferdinand Coeuillewith, manufactured
• "Zim's Assembly March," for band (1908)

C.A. Blodgett, Springfield, Massachusetts

• "Plaza March" (1915)

Sam Philo Music Co., 6 South 55th Street, Philadelphia

• "Call to Arms, The," march and one-step (1916)
• "The Chimes of Peace," march (1919)
• "Cutie Cute," fox-trot (1919)
• "Heads Up," (1919)
• "Peace Chimes," march (1919)
• "Auto Riders Frolic," march (1920)
• "June 14th March" (dedicated to Flag Day) (1920)
• "F. B. S." ("For Better Service"), march (1921)
• "Do-Re," waltz for orchestra and piano (1921)
• "Trombone Solidity;" march for band (1922)
• "Sixteeners, The," march, words, and music (1922)

General references

• "The Patrick Conway Military Band School, 1922–1929," by Mark Fonder, Journal of Research in Music Education, Vol. 40, No. 1 (Spring, 1992), pp. 62-79
• "Two Examples of Czech-Americans' Influence in American Popular Musical Culture in the Early Twentieth-Century: Bohumir Kryl and J.S. Zamecnik," by Michael Cwach, see: [1]
• "Alton Augustus Adams: The First Black Bandmaster in the US Navy," by Samuel A. Floyd, Jr., The Black Perspective in Music, Vol. 5, No. 2 (Autumn, 1977), pp. 173-187 (accessible via JSTOR)

Seltzer's publishing companies

• 1908: Coenille-Seltzer, Philadelphia

Selected discography

As performer

• "The Two Comrades Polka," cornet duet

Accompanied by the Edison Military Band

John Summers Cox (1834–1902), composer

John Hazel (1865–1948) & Frank Seltzer, cornets

Edison Gold Moulded Records ‎8569

Format: cylinder, 2 minutes

Released: December 1903

OCLC 41374378

• "Two of Us," cornet duet

Accompanied by the Edison Military Band

Charles H. Cramer, composer

John Hazel (1865–1948) & Frank Seltzer, cornets

Edison Gold Moulded Records ‎8598

Format: cylinder, 2 minutes

Released: December 1904

Music published in 1903 by:

McKinley Music Company, Chicago

(William McKinley; 1858–1934)

(audio on YouTube)

OCLC 41375733

As composer

• "Royal Trumpeters March"

Listed December 1921

Wurlitzer Roll No. 3070

Wurlitzer Roll No. 3143 ("Standard March Roll")

• "Royal Trumpeters March"

Arthur Pryor's Band

Recorded May 24, 1906, Philadelphia (unconfirmed)

Matrix: E-3405/1

Victor 4841

Library of Congress ID 1061

• "Royal Trumpeters March"

Victor Military Band

Recorded September 27, 1911, Camden, New Jersey

Matrix: C-11017=1

Victor 35204-B

Library of Congress ID 2395

• "Royal Trumpeters March"

Arthur Pryor's Band

Recorded July 13, 1922, New York, New York

Matrix: B-3405=9

Victor 16273-A

Instrumentation: Oboe, bassoon, piccolo, 6 clarinets, 3 horns, 3 cornets, 3 trombones, baritone horn, and 2 tubas (takes 9-11)

Library of Congress ID 1060

• "Royal Trumpeters March"

U.S. Naval Academy Band

Recorded June 9, 1920

Columbia 79231

• "Telescope March"

Arthur Pryor's Band

Recorded April 19, 1907

Matrix: B-4417

Victor 5217

• "La Reina De Las Nieves"

Arthur Pryor's Band

Recorded September 20, 1909

Victor B-8238

• "Snow Queen"

Arranged by James M. Fulton

Arthur Pryor's Band

Recoreded September 24, 1909

Victor 16427

Matrix: B-8238=4

• "Assembly March"

Arthur Pryor's Band

Recorded September 24, 1909

Matrix: B-8254=2

Victor 16425A

• "Assembly March"

Hager's Band (Frederick Wallace Hager; 1874–1958)

Rex & Imperial (1917–1918) 5208

Take 487

• "Pretty Black-Eyed Susan"

Edison Military Band

1907

National Phonograph Company

• "Pretty Black-Eyed Susan"

Arthur Pryor's Band

Recorded April 12, 1910

Matrix: B-8834=2

Victor 16729

• "Bold Front"

Victor Dance Orchestra

Recorded November 10, 1911

Victor C-10876

Orchestra, with extra violin and cornet

• "Algonquin March"

Arthur Pryor's Band

Recorded November 16, 1911

Matrix: B-11261

Victor 17040

• "Algonquin March"

Edison Military Band

Edison 8774

• "American Standard March"

Edison Military Band

Edison 8500

• "Bold Front March"

Edison Military Band

Edison 9129

• "My Little Sweetheart Schottische-Gavotte"

Edison Military Band

Edison 8900

• "National Two-Step"

Edison Military Band

Edison 8893

• "Rosedale March"

Edison Military Band

Edison 8657

• "Royal Trumpeters March"

Edison Military Band

Edison 8865

• "Telescope March, The"

Edison Military Band

Edison 9561

Released June 1907

• "Sweet Little Daisies"

Bells by Albert Benzler (1867–1934)

Edison 9141

• "The Call to Arms"

Conway's Band

Recorded July 10, 1916

Victor B-18085

Band, with xylophone

• "March, The Chimes of Peace"

Conway's Band

Recorded July 13, 1917

Victor Victor B-20390

• "Heads Up"

Conway's Band

Recorded ca. January 1920

OKeh S-7183

• "Auto Riders Frolic"

Conway's Band

Recorded March 1920

OKeh S-7329

• New York Military Band

Conway's Band

Recorded 1920

Side A: "Biddy"

Side B: "June 14th March"

Edison

OCLC 903982162

• Heritage of the March (album series)

U.S. Naval Academy Band

Allen Earl Beck (1937–2016), conductor

Poughkeepsie

Vol. 42 – The Music of Boyer and Seltzer

Recorded around 1979

1. "Zim's Assembly"
2. "Pope's Band"
3. "Star March"
4. "The Hartford Post"
5. "Clash of the Arms"
   (audio on YouTube)
6. "National March and Two Step"
7. "Algonquin"
8. "Adulation"
9. "Zim's Assembly"
10. "Twisted"

Originally distributed by

Robert Hoe, Jr., Poughkeepsie, New York (1979)

(embossed in record) ALT 8-28-79

Re-issued by Naxos (2011)

OCLC 63914507

• Southwestern Oklahoma State University Wind Symphony

James William Jurrens (1926–2005), conductor

Heritage of the March, Vol GGG

1. "Bold Front"
2. "Heads Up"
3. "The Telescope"
4. "Trombone Solidity"
5. "F.B.S."
6. "The Royal Trumpeters"
7. "Auto Riders Frolic"

OCLC 16969806

Selected publications by Seltzer

Music journalism

Seltzer's Pocket Manuel

FRANK R. SELTZER, formerly with Sousa, Conway, Pryor, Innes, and the Philadelphia Symphony Orchestra, tells

What to avoid, and how to improve________________________________________

on the Cornet, Trumpet, French Horn, Alto, Baritone, Trombone, or Tuba. Twenty-five Years' Personal Observation is imparted to you in this wonderful POCKET MANUAL, which is filled with hundreds of valuable pointers for both Professional and Amateur. Endorsed by leading Bandmasters and Soloists. Great help to Teachers.
FIFTY CENTS will secure this Manual, which is WORTH ITS WEIGHT IN GOLD.

____________________
(advertisement, The Musical Messenger, Vol. 8, No. 4, April 1917)

Jacobs Band Monthly

"The Cornetist" (monthly series), by Frank R. Seltzer

1. "A Correspondence Course in Music," Vol. 7, No. 2, February 1922, pps. 5, 8, 10

"Famous Bandmasters in Brief" (monthly series), by Frank R. Seltzer

1918, Volume 3

6. "Conway's Band" (wikipedia), Vol. 3, No. 8, August 1918
7. "Ellis Brooks", Vol. 3, No. 9, September 1918, pps. 22–23
   Note: This article was published in the Jacobs' Orchestra Monthly, Vol. 9, No. 9, September 1918, pps. 22-23

1919, Volume 4

11. "T. Fred Henry," "Vol, 4, No. 1, January 1919, p. 18
12. William Henry Santelmann," (wikipedia), Vol. 4, No. 2, February 1919, pps. 16, 18, 61
13. "John C. Weber" & "Herman Bellstedt," Vol. 4, No. 3, March 1919, pps. 10, 14, 16, 18
14. "Herbert L. Clarke" (wikipedia), Vol. 4, No. 4, April 1919, pps. 10, 12
15. "Samuel H. Kindle," "Vol, 4, No. 5, May 1919, pps. 10 & 12
16. "Lieut. W.S. Mygrant" (né William Seneca Mygrant; 1862–1937), Vol. 4, No. 6, June 1919, p. 10
17. "Capt. Arthur A. Clappe" (né Arthur Albert Clappe; 1850–1920), Vol. 4, No. 7, July 1919, p. 10
18. "Thomas V. Short" (wikipedia, in Dutch), Vol. 4, No. 8, August 1919, p. 10
19. "Albert Winkler of Trenton, New Jersey" (1851–1922), Vol. 4, No. 9, September 1919, pps. 18, 20
20. "Lieutenant John Slatter of Canada" (né John Daniel Slatter; 1864–1954), Vol. 4, No. 10, October 1919, pps. 18, 20
21. "Frederick Neil Innes" (1854–1926), Vol. 4, No. 11, November 1919, pps. 18, 20
22. "Silas Earl Hummel," Vol. 4, No. 12, December 1919, p. 18

1920, Volume 5

22. "Edwin Franko Goldman" (wikipedia), Vol. 5, No. 1, January 1920, pps. 18, 20 (accessible via HathiTrust)
23. "Fred W. Hager" (wikipedia), Vol. 5, No. 2, February 1920, pps. 18, 20 (accessible via HathiTrust)
    Note: This article was also published in the Jacobs' Orchestra Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 2, September 1918, pps. 22-23
24. "Frank A. Panella" (wikipedia), Vol. 5, No. 3, March 1920, pps. 18, 20, 22 (accessible via HathiTrust)
25. "William M. Redfield" (né William Moore Redfield; 1867–1938) (grandson, William Redfield, was an actor), Vol. 5, No. 4, April 1920, pps. 18, 20 (accessible via HathiTrust)
26. "Martin Klinger" (1858–1933), Vol. 5, No. 5, May 1920, pps. 18, 20, 22 (accessible via HathiTrust)
27. "Dr. Ed. M. Hiner" (né Edwin Morrison Hiner; 1871–1948), Vol. 5, No. 6, June 1920, pps. 18–21 (accessible via HathiTrust)
28. "Alton A. Adams" (wikipedia), Vol. 5, No. 7, July 1920, pps. 18, 20–22 (accessible via HathiTrust)

    On the appointment of Alton Augustus Adams, Sr., the first black bandmaster in the U.S. Navy, Seltzer – an early admirer – wrote:

    The Government afterwards detailed Mr. Adams to organize two more such bands in the neighboring islands, a task which was brought to a successful issue within six months. He is now bandmaster-in-charge of these three bands, and all musicians who have been fortunate enough to see and hear the work of these organizations concede that their ensemble efforts cannot be surpassed. Rear Admiral J.W. Oliver, who at the time was Governor of the islands, stated that he did not miss the Marine Band of Washington, D.C., and believed that the material contained in the separate organization could be moulded into what might safely be called "the best band in the world."

29. "George Otto Frey" (1881–1952), Vol. 5, No. 8, August 1920, pps. 18, 20 (accessible via HathiTrust)
30. "Lieut. Lambert L. Eben" (né Lambert Lincoln Eben; 1879–1960), Vol. 5, No. 9, September 1920, pps. 18, 20 (accessible via HathiTrust)
31. "Adolphus Klein" (1869–1943), Vol. 5, No. 10, October 1920, pps. 18, 20 (accessible via HathiTrust)
32. "Ed Chenette" (né Stephen Edward Chenette; 1885–1963), Vol. 5, No. 11, November 1920, pps. 18, 22, 24 (accessible via HathiTrust)
33. "Francis Dupree Morse" (aka Frank D. Morse; 1881–1953), Vol. 5, No. 12, December 1920, pps. 18, 20 (accessible via HathiTrust)

1921, Volume 6

34. "Frank R. Seltzer of Philadelphia," by the editor (Walter Jacobs), Vol. 6, No. 1, January 1921, pps. 25-27
35. "Lieut. Wm. C. White" (né William Carter White; 1882–1964), Vol. 6, No. 2, February 1921, pps. 18, 20
36. "Richard Schmidt" (1865–1931), Vol. 6, No. 3, March 1921, pps. 18, 20
37. "Mace Gay" (né Mace Gay, Jr.; 1855–1935), Vol. 6, No. 4, April 1921, pps. 18, 20, 21, 22
38. "Charles M. Fry" (né Charles Meade Fry; 1882–1938), Vol. 6, No. 5, May 1921, pps. 18, 20
39. "Lieut. Francis W. Sutherland" (né Francis William Sutherland; 1877–1959), Vol. 6, No. 6, June 1921, pps. 18, 19
40. "Karl L. King" (né Karl Lawrence King; 1891–1971) (wikipedia), Vol. 6, No. 7, July 1921, pps. 18, 19
41. "Major George W. Landers" (né George Washington Landers; 1860–1955), Vol. 6, No. 8, August 1921, pps. 18, 19
42. "Ernest F. Pechin" (né Ernest Frank Pechin; 1891–1946), Vol. 6, No. 9, September 1921, pps. 18, 19
43. "Dr. A. Howard Thomas" (né Addison Howard Thomas; 1860–1933), Vol. 6, No. 10, October 1921, pps. 18, 20
44. "B. Frank Maurer" (né Benjamin Frank Maurer; 1870–1945), Vol. 6, No. 11, November 1921, pps. 18, 20
45. "Horace R. Anders" (1860–1923), Vol. 6, No. 12, December 1921, pps. 18, 20

1922, Volume 7

46. "Lt. John Norris Robinson" (1865–1960), Vol. 7, No. 1, January 1922, pps. 18, 20
47. "C. Stanley Mackey" (1877–1915), Vol. 7, No. 2, February 1922, pps. 18, 20
48. "Walter F. Smith" (1859–1937), Vol. 7, No. 3, March 1922, pps. 18, 20, 21
49. "H.J. Charlton" (né Harry James Charlton; 1877–19??), Vol. 7, No. 5, May 1922, pps. 18, 20, 21
50. "M.S.Rocereto" (né Mario Salvatore Rocereto; 1865–1956), Vol. 7, No. 6, June 1922, pps. 18-19

• "Contemplation Now Culmination" (announcement of Seltzer's move to Ithaca, New York), Vol. 7, No. 10, October 1922, p. 12

51. "Highter Education," Vol. 7, No. 11, November 1922, pps. 12, 14
52. "Arthur Amsden" (né Arthur Duffield Amsden; 1865–1926), Vol. 7, No. 12, December 1922, pps. 17-18

1923, Volume 8

58. "Ernest S. Williams" (wikipedia), Vol. 8, No. 8, August 1923

"Noted Orchestral Conductors" (monthly series), by Frank R. Seltzer (in Jacobs' Band Monthly)

1922, Volume 7

1. "Henry K. Hadley", (né Henry Kimball Hadley; 1871–1937), Vol. 7, No. 11, November 1922, pps. 18, 19

Instructional publications

1. Pocket Manuel for Brass Instrument Performers, by Frank R. Seltzer, Philo Music Company (1911)

Gallery

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  1889
  Weed Sewing Machine Company, later, home of the Pope Manufacturing Company
  Frog Hollow (near Pope Park), Hartford

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