Thursday, June 8, 2017

The Bunker Hill Concert Band

    


Pictured: The Bunker Hill Band (circa 1905)
Back row (l-r): Henry Cardell, Honas Fahrenkrog, Sam Lee, Pete Neil, Charles Hendricks, William Cardell, Joe Lee, Lute Jansen
Front row (l-r): L. Pates, W. Wood, Albert Goodwin, Lemuel B. Smith 

The members of the band were wearing "linen dusters" as a result of having lost their uniforms in the fire of 1893, when the uniforms and instruments burned.  Their instruments are new, as are their top hats.

    From the Gazette News: L.E. Jansen, a pioneer news dealer, was an expert at the waltz and polka.  In 1884, he organized a Bunker Hill town band.  The band, under his leadership, rendered many Saturday evening concerts from the bandstands located at the intersection of Washington and Warren Streets.  On June 3, 1886, the name "Jansen's Cornet Band" was adopted.

    In 1904, the Bunker Hill band, with Jansen as director, went to the St. Louis World's Fair to play on "Bunker Hill Day".  There were 16 members at that time.

...Read more about this and other Bunker Hill, IL historical stories at https://bunkerhillhistory.org/

--Cite this story: The Bunker Hill IL Historical Society. "A Look Back in Bunker Hill History." Bunker Hill Gazette-News, June 8, 2017.


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