Information Sheet
R Scott, Ephraim Homer, publisher.
686
The Record, 1888.
One folder.
This is Volume 1, Number
8 (November 1888) of The Record,
published “In the Interests of Musical Culture and General Education” by Prof.
Ephraim H. Scott, director of the Western Conservatory of Music at Carthage, Jasper
County, Missouri.
Ephraim H. Scott,
1858-1925, was the oldest child of James Homer Scott and Eleanor Scott. James Scott was a Methodist minister whose
musical skills and interests were passed on to his family. The Scott family came to Rolla,
Missouri, from Illinois in 1871. After education at the Missouri School of
Mines at Rolla and the Beethoven School of Music in St. Louis, Ephraim H. Scott established the
Western Conservatory of Music at Rolla in 1883.
The four-page Record contains advertisements of
professionals and businessmen in Carthage,
and news of various educational venues such as the Carthage School of Art, the
Collegiate Institute, and the public schools.
In this issue, Prof. Scott announced the removal of the Western
Conservatory of Music to Carthage
from Rolla, where Scott had founded the Western Conservatory seven years
earlier. The removal to Carthage “was to
bring the institution nearer to its naturally developing territory of patronage,
the west, manifestly indicated by the fact that the greater portion of our
pupils from abroad come from Kansas, Indian Territory, Texas
and Southwest Missouri.” At Carthage,
the conservatory was located in the same building as the Carthage Collegiate
Institute. The two schools were separate
in organization, but cooperated so that “students of one may readily enjoy the
advantages of both.” In 1910, the
Western Conservatory of Music was moved to Chicago.
For additional material on the Conservatory, including catalogs and
programs, see the Scott family papers, WHMC-Rolla collection R453.
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