About John Henry Willcox
Lived 1827 – 1875 (aged 47–48). John Henry Willcox was an American composer.
John Henry Willcox (1827 in Savannah, Georgia – 1875 in Boston, Massachusetts) was an organist and organ maker educated at Trinity College (Connecticut). He spent the rest of his life as an organist in Boston. While there, he was a partner in the organ building firm run by William Benjamin Dearborn Simmons. He was succeeded as organist and choir master at the Church of the Immaculate Conception by George Whiting.
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Who was John Henry Willcox?
American organist and organ maker (1827–1875)
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John Henry Willcox was born in 1827 in Savannah.
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John Henry Willcox died in 1875 in Boston.
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John Henry Willcox was a composer.
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