CHESTNUT, Lora Perry
(*1888)> ORGANIST · TEACHER · COMPOSER
CHESTNUT, Lora Perry American organist, teacher and composer. Beloit, KS, February 23, 1888. She studied at the Harrisburg Conservatory, receiving her diploma in 1908. From 1939 to 1940 she studied the organ under Mary Lyman and William Leonard Hofer in Manhattan, Percy Shaul Hallet in Pasadena and Alexander Schreiner in Los Angeles. In the same city she studied orchestration and composition under Dr. Mary Carr Moore (q.v.) and James H. Rogers. She was an organist at several churches in Kansas…