Arthur Joseph Hutchinson Barbour was a renowned organist and professor. He was born in Liverpool, England (in January 1850, according to some family sources), and emigrated to the United States in 1881. He resided in New York, Texas, Illinois, and Ohio for 36 years until his death in 1917.
He was organist at St. Mark's and San Fernando Cathedrals in San Antonio about the time he married Sarah "Sadie" Chew on Jan. 10, 1883, at her parents' house in San Antonio. They were the parents of son Louis, who had 12-year minor league baseball career and later served as traveling secretary for the Chicago White Sox for ten years, and daughter Mary. The couple had divorced by the time Arthur married Anna Elisabeth Kassal, a native of Bohemia, on Mar. 2, 1898, in Comal County, Texas (just north of San Antonio). It was the second marriage for both.
Early 20th century newspapers from around the United States are littered with concerts and performances by Dr. Barbour. His engagements varied from a prestigious engagement on the grand organ at the St. Louis World's Fair in October 1904 to, for example, a Tuesday afternoon recital at the Episcopal Church in Albany, Georgia. One of the last confirmed performances I have found is when he played at the grand opening celebration of the Isis Theatre in Houston, Texas, which was Houston's first dedicated movie theater. He also reportedly played a theater organ in Charleston, South Carolina, for a time in early 1917.
I have not been able to find Arthur on the 1900 or 1910 census records (the only two extant census enumerations on which Arthur would be expected to appear). City directories from San Antonio have him living there from about 1882 through 1894. A newspaper mention of an 1899 performance reports that he was living in Chicago at that time, and mentions of his 1904 World's Fair appearance place him in Cincinnati at that time. Composer William Dawson Armstrong dedicated a 1916 work to his friend "Arthur J. H. Barbour of Cincinnati", suggesting he lived there at that time as well. Barbour was arrested in Charleston, South Carolina, in March 1917—where he was living and working under the alias of Carl Hoffmann—on a warrant stemming from the embezzlement of over $400 from a local Houston music club. He was convicted in May 1917 and sentenced to a five-year prison term in the state penitentiary which was then suspended. It is possible that his sentence was suspended due to illness, because his son Louis' 1918 passport application reports his father had died in 1917.
I have not yet found a death record, nor have I found any news coverage of his death anywhere.
He was organist at St. Mark's and San Fernando Cathedrals in San Antonio about the time he married Sarah "Sadie" Chew on Jan. 10, 1883, at her parents' house in San Antonio. They were the parents of son Louis, who had 12-year minor league baseball career and later served as traveling secretary for the Chicago White Sox for ten years, and daughter Mary. The couple had divorced by the time Arthur married Anna Elisabeth Kassal, a native of Bohemia, on Mar. 2, 1898, in Comal County, Texas (just north of San Antonio). It was the second marriage for both.
Early 20th century newspapers from around the United States are littered with concerts and performances by Dr. Barbour. His engagements varied from a prestigious engagement on the grand organ at the St. Louis World's Fair in October 1904 to, for example, a Tuesday afternoon recital at the Episcopal Church in Albany, Georgia. One of the last confirmed performances I have found is when he played at the grand opening celebration of the Isis Theatre in Houston, Texas, which was Houston's first dedicated movie theater. He also reportedly played a theater organ in Charleston, South Carolina, for a time in early 1917.
I have not been able to find Arthur on the 1900 or 1910 census records (the only two extant census enumerations on which Arthur would be expected to appear). City directories from San Antonio have him living there from about 1882 through 1894. A newspaper mention of an 1899 performance reports that he was living in Chicago at that time, and mentions of his 1904 World's Fair appearance place him in Cincinnati at that time. Composer William Dawson Armstrong dedicated a 1916 work to his friend "Arthur J. H. Barbour of Cincinnati", suggesting he lived there at that time as well. Barbour was arrested in Charleston, South Carolina, in March 1917—where he was living and working under the alias of Carl Hoffmann—on a warrant stemming from the embezzlement of over $400 from a local Houston music club. He was convicted in May 1917 and sentenced to a five-year prison term in the state penitentiary which was then suspended. It is possible that his sentence was suspended due to illness, because his son Louis' 1918 passport application reports his father had died in 1917.
I have not yet found a death record, nor have I found any news coverage of his death anywhere.
Arthur Joseph Hutchinson Barbour was a renowned organist and professor. He was born in Liverpool, England (in January 1850, according to some family sources), and emigrated to the United States in 1881. He resided in New York, Texas, Illinois, and Ohio for 36 years until his death in 1917.
He was organist at St. Mark's and San Fernando Cathedrals in San Antonio about the time he married Sarah "Sadie" Chew on Jan. 10, 1883, at her parents' house in San Antonio. They were the parents of son Louis, who had 12-year minor league baseball career and later served as traveling secretary for the Chicago White Sox for ten years, and daughter Mary. The couple had divorced by the time Arthur married Anna Elisabeth Kassal, a native of Bohemia, on Mar. 2, 1898, in Comal County, Texas (just north of San Antonio). It was the second marriage for both.
Early 20th century newspapers from around the United States are littered with concerts and performances by Dr. Barbour. His engagements varied from a prestigious engagement on the grand organ at the St. Louis World's Fair in October 1904 to, for example, a Tuesday afternoon recital at the Episcopal Church in Albany, Georgia. One of the last confirmed performances I have found is when he played at the grand opening celebration of the Isis Theatre in Houston, Texas, which was Houston's first dedicated movie theater. He also reportedly played a theater organ in Charleston, South Carolina, for a time in early 1917.
I have not been able to find Arthur on the 1900 or 1910 census records (the only two extant census enumerations on which Arthur would be expected to appear). City directories from San Antonio have him living there from about 1882 through 1894. A newspaper mention of an 1899 performance reports that he was living in Chicago at that time, and mentions of his 1904 World's Fair appearance place him in Cincinnati at that time. Composer William Dawson Armstrong dedicated a 1916 work to his friend "Arthur J. H. Barbour of Cincinnati", suggesting he lived there at that time as well. Barbour was arrested in Charleston, South Carolina, in March 1917—where he was living and working under the alias of Carl Hoffmann—on a warrant stemming from the embezzlement of over $400 from a local Houston music club. He was convicted in May 1917 and sentenced to a five-year prison term in the state penitentiary which was then suspended. It is possible that his sentence was suspended due to illness, because his son Louis' 1918 passport application reports his father had died in 1917.
I have not yet found a death record, nor have I found any news coverage of his death anywhere.
He was organist at St. Mark's and San Fernando Cathedrals in San Antonio about the time he married Sarah "Sadie" Chew on Jan. 10, 1883, at her parents' house in San Antonio. They were the parents of son Louis, who had 12-year minor league baseball career and later served as traveling secretary for the Chicago White Sox for ten years, and daughter Mary. The couple had divorced by the time Arthur married Anna Elisabeth Kassal, a native of Bohemia, on Mar. 2, 1898, in Comal County, Texas (just north of San Antonio). It was the second marriage for both.
Early 20th century newspapers from around the United States are littered with concerts and performances by Dr. Barbour. His engagements varied from a prestigious engagement on the grand organ at the St. Louis World's Fair in October 1904 to, for example, a Tuesday afternoon recital at the Episcopal Church in Albany, Georgia. One of the last confirmed performances I have found is when he played at the grand opening celebration of the Isis Theatre in Houston, Texas, which was Houston's first dedicated movie theater. He also reportedly played a theater organ in Charleston, South Carolina, for a time in early 1917.
I have not been able to find Arthur on the 1900 or 1910 census records (the only two extant census enumerations on which Arthur would be expected to appear). City directories from San Antonio have him living there from about 1882 through 1894. A newspaper mention of an 1899 performance reports that he was living in Chicago at that time, and mentions of his 1904 World's Fair appearance place him in Cincinnati at that time. Composer William Dawson Armstrong dedicated a 1916 work to his friend "Arthur J. H. Barbour of Cincinnati", suggesting he lived there at that time as well. Barbour was arrested in Charleston, South Carolina, in March 1917—where he was living and working under the alias of Carl Hoffmann—on a warrant stemming from the embezzlement of over $400 from a local Houston music club. He was convicted in May 1917 and sentenced to a five-year prison term in the state penitentiary which was then suspended. It is possible that his sentence was suspended due to illness, because his son Louis' 1918 passport application reports his father had died in 1917.
I have not yet found a death record, nor have I found any news coverage of his death anywhere.
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