History of Fayette County, Pennsylvania : with biographical sketches of many of its pioneers and prominent men . Uniontown. This bandmade the music at the reception of Marquis de La-fayette in Uniontown in , and was urged by himand the celebrated Albert Gallatin to accompanythem to the home of the latter on the Monongahelaabove New Geneva, and partake of the festivities ofhis visit there, but were obliged to decline the flatter-ing compliment. This band, under the leadership of Mr. Craft, fur-nished music for all the Masonic and military paradesof Uniontown, Washington, Brownsville, and m
History of Fayette County, Pennsylvania : with biographical sketches of many of its pioneers and prominent men . Uniontown. This bandmade the music at the reception of Marquis de La-fayette in Uniontown in , and was urged by himand the celebrated Albert Gallatin to accompanythem to the home of the latter on the Monongahelaabove New Geneva, and partake of the festivities ofhis visit there, but were obliged to decline the flatter-ing compliment. This band, under the leadership of Mr. Craft, fur-nished music for all the Masonic and military paradesof Uniontown, Washington, Brownsville, and manyother places from 1824 to about 1835. So good wasits music that Gen. Jackson said it surpassed anymartial music he had ever heard. So great was fondness for music that he continued to playon his two fiivorite instruments, the flute and theclarionet, up to the hour of his last sickness. Sonoble and gentle was Mr. Craft during his whole lifethat it is safe to .say that no man in the wide regionthroughout which he was known was ever after death than he, or his loss more y^ A/?a^ yf^^:^^^
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