DOUGLASS, JOSEPH HENRY

DOUGLASS, JOSEPH HENRY. Concert violinist (3 July 1871 in Washington, D.C.; 16 December 1935 in Washington). His early interest in music was encouraged by his father and grandfather, abolitionist Frederick Douglass , both of whom played violin. After Joseph taught himself to play his father's violin, his grandfather arranged for music lessons and in 1889 sent him to study at the New England Conservatory in Boston, Massachusetts. After he returned to Washington, D.C., about 1891 he played...