Farnsworth, Charles Hubert, 1859-1947

Born in Kayseri, Turkey, the son of Rev. Wilson A. Farnsworth and Caroline E. Palmer Farnsworth, missionaries; educated by his parents in Turkey and began his musical training with his mother; spent a brief time in the Newtonville, Mass., high school; for eight months traveled as a ship's boy on a sailing vessel to Chile; upon his return to the U.S. studied piano with Benjamin D. Alien, whose daughter Charlotte he married in 1890; became an organist in Worcester, Mass., and continued to read widely. In 1887 traveled to Boulder, Colo., and found opportunities for music there; visited New York in 1899 and in 1900 began teaching at Columbia Teachers College and Horace Mann School; wrote extensively: books, articles, reports for conferences, essays and developed new courses at Teachers College in harmony, history, appreciation, etc. In the 1920s-1930s took an interest in radio and phonograph music. He and his wife Charlotte founded Camp Hanoum (later renamed Camp Farnsworth) in Thetford, Vt., in 1949, a summer camp for girls, and continued their involvement with this well into the 1930s. The couple retired to Thetford, Vt., and continued to travel extensively.

From the description of Charles Hubert Farnsworth collection, 1887-1936. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 781298488