He studied music in London and Leipzig, and held musical positions in England and Scotland until 1880, when he became organist of Plymouth Church in Brooklyn, New York.
In 1895, he moved to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where he spent two years as the principle violist in the newly formed Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Frederic Archer.
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