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THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW, MAY, 19J,1
J. W. Dawson
founder of Dawson Music Co.
passes away at 74
one son, J. W. Dawson, Jr., who has been
managing the business and will continue
to do so. Mrs. Dawson states she will
cooperate in the management of the busi-
ness.
Displays Names on
New Truck
J. W. Dawson, founder and head of the
Dawson Music Co., Phoenix, Arizona,
passed away on April 9th at his home in
Making good use of a new delivery
that city. He was taken ill December 1st truck which he recently purchased T. R.
and was believed to be on the road to
recovery when he contracted pneumonia,
which was the cause of his death. He was
born at East Liverpool, Ohio, and Mr.
Dawson celebrated his seventy fourth
birthday on February 19, of this year.
When he was seventeen years of age he
went to work for The Thompson Music
Co. of East Liverpool, Ohio. In 1910 he
and his brothers organized the Dawson
Piano Co. in Pittsburgh, Pa., and in 1913,
for reasons of health, went to Phoenix, Huston, head of the Huston-Baldwin Piano
Ariz., when the Dawson Music Co. was Stores in Milwaukee had the names of
started.
The deceased is survived by two
brothers and two sisters, residents of Pitts-
burgh; by his widow, Gertrude A. Daw-
son, by two daughters one of which is
Mildred, the wife of Rev. R. E. Dicus (note:
spelling of this name is not clear in Mrs.
Dawson's letter) by a daughter Evelyn, a
605 EAST 132nd STREET
student at Occidental College; also by
the instruments he handles, as well as that
of the company prominently displayed on
its sides. In the accompanying illustration
the new truck is shown in front of the
store at 714 North Broad-way.
President of Student Council
Patricia Ann Price, charming daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. Morris Price, has recently
been chosen President of the Student
Council at the National College of Edu-
cation, Evanston, 111. Morris Price is Re-
gional Director for Wurlitzer in the Cen-
tral District.
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