. Some of the ancestors and the children of Nathaniel Wilson, Seventh Generation,. HEMAN ALLEN7 {George, Heman? Enoch* Samuel,3 Edward,2Edward1),born in St. Albans, Vermont, 11 August 1836; died in Chicago, 111., 27 January1893; interred at Calvary, 111. The following sketch is from A Hundred Years of Music in America, Chicago, 1889, pp. 300-302: In 1S40 at the age of four years Mr. Heman Allengave his first lessons in a curious way, by correcting theincorrect intonations of his uncle who was learning thevioloncello as an amusement. He began to take lessonsin his seventh year, on the vio


. Some of the ancestors and the children of Nathaniel Wilson, Seventh Generation,. HEMAN ALLEN7 {George, Heman? Enoch* Samuel,3 Edward,2Edward1),born in St. Albans, Vermont, 11 August 1836; died in Chicago, 111., 27 January1893; interred at Calvary, 111. The following sketch is from A Hundred Years of Music in America, Chicago, 1889, pp. 300-302: In 1S40 at the age of four years Mr. Heman Allengave his first lessons in a curious way, by correcting theincorrect intonations of his uncle who was learning thevioloncello as an amusement. He began to take lessonsin his seventh year, on the violin and piano, of hisfather and mother, both exquisite performers on theirrespective instruments. His mother, a Boston lady,was a grandniece of Gov. John Hancock, and a promi-nent singer in the Boston Handel and Haydn Philadelphia, he had the best teachers, Mr. CarlHupfeld and Mr. Carl Hohnstock. In 1860, havingpreviously graduated with the highest honors at theUniversity of Pennsylvania, he went to Leipzig tocomplete his musical education. He entered the Conservatory and


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