BROOKE, T. P.

Thomas Preston Brooke was born in Dubuque, Iowa, in 1856 but as a young man moved to the Boston area where he studied music and supported himself by playing with different professional bands. He played trombone with the Gilmore Band from 1878 to 1880 and was greatly influenced by the conductor and the other musicians in the band at the time. The sixty-six-member group toured in Europe in 1878. In 1893 Brooke became director of the Chicago Marine Band, which gave...