Frank Harvey Colby

Background

Colby, Frank Harvey was born on September 1, 1867 in Milwaukee. Son of Harvey Daniel and Patience (Wheeler) Colby.

Education

Education public and high schools. Graduate North.E. Conservatory of Music, 1887.

Career

2d, Myrtle Pryibil, of Saint Louis, September 19, 1911. Organist, Milwaukee, First Unitarian Church, 1887-1889, Grand Avenue Congressional Church, 1889-1891, and assistant organist Saint Johns’s Catholic Cathedral, 1892-1894. Organist and choir director, Los Angeles, Simpson Auditorium, 1895-1900, Church of the Unity, 1900-1907, Saint Vibiana’s Cathedral, since 1907.

Concert organist Venice Auditorium season, 1905.

Music critic Los Angeles Times, 1897-1899, Los Angeles Express, since 1900, also dramatic critic latter. Editor Pacific Coast Musician.

A founder of the Gamut, one of the best known “Bohemian” clubs of the country and of Los Angeles Chapter American Guild of Organists. Orr. leading music journals Home: 1622 Reid Saint, Los Angeles, California.

Achievements

• Frank Harvey Colby has been listed as a noteworthy organist. by Marquis Who's Who.

Connections

Married Delphina Todd, of Los Angeles, 1897 (died, 1908).