Information Sheet

 

 

R            Marble Hill bands (Marble Hill, Mo.).

67                    Records, 1875-1902.

                                    One folder, photocopies.

 

 

 

These are two record books of the community bands of Marble Hill in Bollinger County, Missouri.  The records include constitutions, membership lists, minutes of meetings, and fi­nan­cial ac­counts of the Quartette String Band (1875), the Marble Hill Cornet Band (1876-1878), and the Marble Hill Silver Cornet Band (1887-1902).  Although this collection was ac­quired from two separate donors, the combined material forms a unified history of the Marble Hill bands.  The long asso­ciation of Dr. August Sander with the bands explains the continuity of the records.

 

On 22 June 1875 the Lutesville and Marble Hill String Bands combined to form the Quar­tette String Band.  Dr. August Sander was elected president.  The band’s rules estab­lished a mini­mum fee of fourteen dollars for an engagement, and prohibited “free-lance” en­gagements by the indi­vidual musicians.  The band performed at a ball on 5 July 1875, but fur­ther bookings were not forthcoming and the last entry by the treasurer was dated 2 September 1875.

 

On 15 May 1876 many of the same individuals organized the Marble Hill Cornet Band.  Again August Sander was elected president, and J. M. Welch was named leader.  There are de­tailed financial accounts for this organization extending into 1878.

 

There is a gap in the records from 1878 until 15 May 1887, when August Sander, now the secretary of the “Marble Hill Silver Cornet Band,” essayed a brief account of the eleven-year his­tory of the organization.  This memoir includes a list of all members during that pe­riod, and noted that in late 1886 the band had been reorganized, with Robert W. Fisher as leader and Charles A. Sander as president.

 

There were subsequent reorganizations in 1891, 1897 (after the resignation of R. W. Fisher), 1899, and 1902 (when R. W. Fisher returned as leader).  These reorganizations were re­flected in new constitutions and bylaws.  Financial accounts are most complete for the years 1895-1898.

 

 

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