MIKELL, FRANCIS EUGENE

MIKELL, FRANCIS EUGENE. Bandmaster (27 March 1885 in Charleston, South Carolina; 19 January 1932 in New York). He studied violin and cornet as a child with local teachers. He attended the Avery Normal and Industrial Institute in Charleston, South Carolina, and later, Tuskegee Institute in Alabama, where he studied with Charles Harris. He studied further at the New York School of Music. He was director of the Jenkins Orphanage Band of Charleston when it performed at the inauguration of President William...