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Henry B. Hooke, Former Piano
Maker, Dies at Age ol 104
Henry Bayles Hooke. who was at one
time a piano maker and worked on the
first Lizst organ which was made by
Mason & Hamlin in Boston, and also
worked for Hughes & Sons in Foxcroft,
Me., years ago. passed away at his
home in Leonia. N. J., on May 4th at
the age of 104 years. He would have,
been J05 year< old on July 15th.
Mr. Hooke was born in London but
went to Canada at an early age after a
physician had warned him that he had
a weak lung and might not live long
in English climates. He became a bugler
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in the Queen's Guard Hegiment and
served during the northwest rebellion
in Canada. It was later that he worked
as a piano maker in Boston and Fox-
croft, Me., and during World War 1
he was an inspector of shrapnel in one
of the plants in the United States which
was making this type of ammunition
for the Canadian government.
On the occasion of his 100th birth-
day, he received a congratulatory cable-
gram from the Queen of England, and
at the time that George V and Queen
Elizabeth were visiting the United
States he received a letter from them
while they were enroute to Canada.
In 1875, he married Miss Isabel Me-
Cullough, daughter of a British Army
officer and it was at that time that they
came to the United States.
In his later years, he had charge of
the maintenance equipment at the Penn-
sylvania Hotel which is now the Statler
in New York City, from which he was
retired in 1939 at the age of 90.
He is survived by his two daughters-
in-law and several grandchildren, and
one great-grandchild.
WENDELL GLOVER
Wendell Glover, East Quogue. L. I..
Registered Member of the New York
Division of NAPT, passed away March
27, 1954. at the age of 62. Born at
Kiverhead, L. I., he followed in the
footsteps of his father, Ellsworth Glov-
er, who had been a tuner and dealer in
\\ esthampton Beach and Riverhead.
L. I., and in Plainfield, N. J. in 1910.
Mr. Glover worked for a time in the
piano and organ department of the
Rudolph Wurlitzer Co. During World
I he served 18 months overseas in the
entertainment section of the 502nd En-
gineers. Though handicapped by a
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stroke three years ago, he kept dogged-
ly at his work ,and would drive ninety
and a hundred miles to attend meetings
of the Brooklyn and New York Divi-
sions to share his views and valuable
ideas with his fellow-members. Sur-
viving him are his wife, Ruth, two
daughters, and a brother in Connecti-
cut. Services were held at the West-
bampton Beach Memorial Chapel. Be-
sides relatives and friends, a large con-
tingent of tuners from the National
Association of Piano Tuners and the
American Society of Piano Technicians
came to pay their last respects. Inter-
ment was in Oakwood Cemetery. East
Quogue. !\. Y.
Morris Curtis Buys the Name
Wessell as Used on Pianos
Morris Curtis of 914 Ninth Ave.,
New York, N. Y. has announced that
he is now the owner of the trade name
'"Wessell", used in association with the
manufacture of pianos.
In making his announcement. Mr.
Curtis said, "I recently purchased the
good-will of said trade name from a
famous piano company. The name of
Wessell has been used in the manufac-
ture of high-grade pianos for over
fifty years. I personally was once em-
ployed by the Wessell Piano Mfg. Co.
over forty years ago. '
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