Sumner Salter

Background

Salter, Sumner was born on June 24, 1856 in Burlington, Iowa, United States. Son of Review William and Mary Ann (Mackintire) Salter.

Education

Bachelor of Arts, Amherst, 1877. Studied music in Boston with Eugene Thayer, J. K. Paine, J. C. Doctorate. Parker and George L. Osgood.

Career

Began as teacher, Petersilea Academy of Music, Boston, 1878. Director Arion Club (male voices). Organist 1st Unitarian Church, Lynn, Eliot Congressional Church, Roxbury, Euclid Avenue Baptist Church, Cleveland, Ohio, 1879-1881.

Saint Paul’s Protestant Episcopal Church, Syracuse, New York, and conductor Cecilia Society, 1881-1886.

Organist 1st Methodist Church, Atlanta, Georgia., and conductor Atlanta Music Association, 1886-1889. Organist 1st Presbyterian Church.

New York, 1889-1892, West End Collegiate Church, 1892-1900, Sage Chapel, Cornell Univercity, 1900-1902, Broadway Tabernacle, New York, 1902-1905. Director of music Williams College, 1905-1923.

Conductor Mendelssohn Choir, Williamstown.

Organist Pan-American, Saint Louis and San Francisco expns.

Achievements

• Sumner Salter has been listed as a noteworthy composer, director by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

Member Company East. 20th Regiment, Massachusetts State Guard. A founder American Guild Organists (warden, 1899-1900). Member Alpha Delta Phi, Pi Gamma Museum.

Connections

Married Mary East. Turner, May 26, 1881. Children: Edward Winthrop, Harold (deceased), Edith Marie, William Frost.

Father:

Review William Salter

Mother:

Mary Ann (Mackintire) Salter

Spouse:

Mary East. Turner

child:

Edith Marie Salter

child:

William Frost Salter

child:

Harold Salter (deceased)

child:

Edward Winthrop Salter