Benjamin Dwight Allen
Benjamin Dwight Allen (February 16, 1831, in Sturbridge, Massachusetts – March 4, 1914, in Wellesley, Massachusetts) was a composer and organist. His parents were natives of Massachusetts named Alvan and Lucy.[1] He was an organist for Congregational churches and gained attention in the nineteenth century.
From 1845 onwards he was a teacher and an organist. From 1857 to 1894 he worked as an organist and a choir director for the Union Congregational Church. In 1858, he founded the
Boston Conservatory. After 1894 he led the music department at a college in Wisconsin and from 1902 to 1905 he worked as an organist at the Manhattan Congregational Church in New York City
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References
- ^ Martha Elizabeth Burt Wright; Martha Burt Wright; Anna M. Bancroft (1905). History of the Oread Collegiate Institute, Worcester, Mass. (1849-1881). Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor Co.
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