TINSLEY, PEDRO T.

TINSLEY, PEDRO T.. Choral conductor (1856 in Boston, Massachusetts [?]; 23 November 1921 in Chicago, Illinois). He began his career in Boston, Massachusetts, as a cornetist. During the early 1880s he played in the Morris Orchestra and in the Albion Instrumental Quartet, which included also Davis, Feather, and Morris (first names unknown), with Frederick P. White as accompanist. In 1883 he organized his own band, called Tinsley's Colored Cornet Band or Tinsley's Cornet Band. In December...