John Philip Sousa (1854-1932) The ``March King'' was born in Washington, D.C., and joined the Marine Band as an apprentice musician at age 13. He served seven years in the Marines, studying violin, harmony and composition, then performed after his discharge as a violinist and conductor in Washington and Philadelphia. He returned to the Marine Band as its leader, and during his 12 years in that job made the band one of the finest military bands in the world. He later formed his own civilian concert band. Although best known as a composer of marches, Sousa wrote 15 operettas, more than 70 other songs as well as other pieces. He worked tirelessly and once said, ``When you hear of Sousa retiring, you will hear of Sousa dead.'' He was right. Sousa died after a rehearsal in Reading, Penn. He is one of 102 people elected to the Hall of Fame for Great Americans.

Henry Fillmore (1881-1956) When Fillmore left his father's publishing business in 1905, he already had run away twice to join circuses. This time, he left his native Cincinnati because of arguments over band music. The younger Fillmore loved band music, but his father, who published mostly religious music, considered bands evil. So Fillmore went to Michigan, married then joined a circus band as a trombone player. He returned to Cincinnati a year later, played in several orchestras there and re-joined his father's business with more freedom to compose band music. His compositions helped the business flourish. He later started the Fillmore Band, which played over WLW Radio and included Mike, Fillmore's dog who could bark in perfect time to the music. Fillmore moved in 1938 to Miami because of a heart problem. The Florida climate improved his health and he became a patron of high school and college bands there. His will stipulated that royalties from The Fillmore Brothers music catalog go to the University of Miami band. That campus today includes Fillmore Hall and the Fillmore Museum at the school of music.

Karl L. King (1891-1971) Born in Paintersville, Ohio, King's formal education ended in sixth or eighth grade. But he began composing music about age 13, played with bands in Ohio then toured for several years with circus bands. He returned to Ohio in 1916 and married a clerk and pianist at a music store in Canton. But his plan to settle down was postponed two more years while he toured as leader of the Barnum and Bailey Circus Band with his wife playing air calliope. With the United States involved in World War I, Sousa recommended King for a position as an Army bandmaster. But the war ended before King's reporting date, and he never served. Instead, he started K.L. King Music House in Canton and directed the Grand Army Band there. But seeking more money, he and his wife moved to Fort Dodge, Iowa, to direct the municipal band there. He also moved his publishing company, which became a success. Today, the Karl L. King Bridge spans the Des Moines River, Karl L. King Park graces Fort Dodge and the band he led there is called the Karl L. King Band. Information taken from The Heritage Encyclopedia of Band Music.

Rose Myrtle Jones symbolizes the thousands of amateur American composers who enjoyed brief flashes of musical notoriety in their local communities and then faded from memory. Jones honored two publications in the dedication to ``The News March,'' which reads ``Dedicated to the Leading Newspapers of Texas, `The Galveston News' and ``The Dallas News,'' By Rose M. Jones, Composer, Denison, Texas, March, 1898.''

When the Dallas Morning News published the new march on Sunday, May 29, 1898, its twenty-year-old composer was hailed as a rising musical star who would soon ``rank with the foremost composers of the south, if not of America.'' Accordinq to the paper, Jones had enjoyed ``the advantages of the very best institutions in Texas,'' and then moved on to the Nashville Conservatory of Music. There, she achieved the distinction of winning second place among 300 entrants in a contest to write a march for Tennessee's centennial celebration. The empress of Germany responded to a march dedicated to her with a ``very complimentary letter to the fair Texas composer.''

**William II. Rehrig's Heritage Encyclopedia of Band Music, entries for these individuals usually include only a listing of known works and few, it any, biographical facts.

J.B. Ettinger is typical of these forgotten composers. According to articles in the Metronome magazine, he was leader of the band of the Carlisle Indian School in Pennsylvania during the early 1900s, and in 1920 was heading the Royal Rosarian Band in Portland, Oregon. In 1897, when Ettinger both composed and published his Philadelphia Press Prize McKinley Inaugural March (1897), he was living in Chester, Pennsylvania. Although the cover of the piano edition indicates that the march was ``played by the leading bands at the inauguration,'' biographies of President McKinley make no mention of the march.

A.E. Clarke is listed in none of the standard music reference sourccs. Thus, he is known to us only by the piano and band editions of his Chicago Journal Two Step (1896), which is called in a subtitle on the band parts, the ``Greatest `Hit' of the Season.''

J.R. Feagans was leader of the Petersburg Military Band in Petersburg, Virginia, during the early 1890s, however little else is known about his life. During a twenty-year period beginning in 1884, Feagans published more than forty marches and other works with a variety of small band publishers, mostly in the midwest. His march The Chicago American was published by the Dalbey Music Co. of Des Moines, Iowa, in 1903.

Raphael Fassett was possibly more active in the music printing business than as a composer. A handful of piano pieces by Fassett have been located, all dating from the 1890s. Possibly Fassett was not a band musician himself, since a four of his known band publications, including the Chicago Evening Post (1892), were arranged by J.H. Bell, a noted music merchant and bandsman in Lawrence, Kansas. Correspondence and advertising materials preserved in the files of the C.L. Barnhouse Company in Oskaloosa, Iowa, indicate that by the late 1890s, Fassett had established himself in Chicago as a music typographer, engraver, printer, and lithographer. A flyer announcing a change in his business address declares, not immodestly, ``For the second time in ten months I have been obliged to seek more commodious quarters to enable me to keep up with the growing demands of my trade, in which I have no rival and recognize no competitor.''

Chebanse, Illinois, near Chicago, is probably the smallest community to have its newspaper march recorded in this series. The town's population was less than a thousand in 1899 when W.H. Overhue honored the weekly Chebanse Herald with its own march. A.F. Weldon (1862-1914), the noted Chicago bandmaster and cornetist, made the published band arrangement of the march.

Other than the fact that he wrote at least two newspaper marches, little is known about P.F Campiglio. His Ohio Press March includes this dedication: ``Inscribed to the Representatives of the Ohio Press. Democratic State Convention. Cincinnati, August, 1893.'' The piano sheet music was distributed free of charge to those in attendance at the convention by its publisher the John Church Company of Cincinnati. A second newspaper march by Campiglio, The Chicago Chronicle, was published in 1895.