McKinley Assassination Ink: A Documentary History of William McKinley's Assassination

Publication information

Source: Musical Courier
Source type: magazine
Document type: news column
Document title: “Across the Country”
Author(s): anonymous
Date of publication: 13 December 1917
Volume number: 75
Issue number: 24
Pagination: 54-57 (excerpt below includes only page 54)

Citation

“Across the Country.” Musical Courier 13 Dec. 1917 v75n24: pp. 54-57.

Transcription

excerpt

Keywords

William J. Gomph.

Named persons

William J. Gomph; William McKinley.

Document

Across the Country [excerpt]

A former Albanian, William J. Gomph, of Buffalo, has been in town. Mr. Gomph is organist and music director of the Lafayette Avenue Presbyterian Church in Buffalo. He was official organist, when only eighteen, for the Pan-American Exposition, and shortly before the late President McKinley was shot he complimented the young musician on the excellence of the music programs of the exposition. Mr. Gomph studied in Paris, London and Berlin.

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