Background
Pickells, Charles William was born on October 4, 1874 in Looe, Cornwall, England. Son of Charles (Doctor of Divinity) and Marguerite Eleanora (Robinson) P.
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Charles William Pickells
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Educated Bristol (England) Grammar School, De Garmo Institute, Fishkill-on-Hudson, New York, Harvard University (special student music), 1904.
Career
Organist and choirmaster, House of Prayer, Newark, New Jersey, 1895-1897, Saint Andrew’s Episcopal Church, Saint Johnsbury, Vermont, 1898-1900, (also supervisor music, city schools, Saint Johnsbury), Saint Mary's, Burlington, New York, 1899-1901, Saint Stephen’s, Boston, 1901-1904, Christ Church, Elizabeth, New Jersey, 1904-1909. Instructor music in public schools, Roselle, New Jersey, 1905-1908, and Somerville, 1906-1908. Supervisor of music public schools of New York, September, 1908-March 1912, department music, Flushing High School, 1912-1913, Brooklyn Training School for Teachers, since 1913.
Organist and choirmaster Saint George’s Episcopal Church, Flushing, New York, November 1, since 1909.
Address: Flushing New York‡.
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Married Mary Hamilton Farley, of New York, April.
