LAYTON, JOHN TURNER, SR.

LAYTON, JOHN TURNER, SR. Music educator (c1841 in Freeport, New Jersey; 14 February 1916 in Washington, D.C.). Little is known of his early life. He obtained his musical training from the Round Lake Conservatory at Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts; Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois; and the New England Conservatory in Boston, Massachusetts. He served in the United States Armed Forces during the Civil War, then after the war settled in Washington, D.C. In 1883 he began teaching music in...