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British Violin Makers
This adaptable instrument's origins date back centuries. Celtic legends amuse us with mystical stories describing the creation of stringed music, but practical history recounts that the modern birth of the violin occurred in Italy as early as the sixteenth century. The skilled craft of hand production was renowned in France as well, but it is the British classic type and its history that W. Meredith Morris writes about in British Violin Makers . This classic, comprehensive reference to violin making, reprinted in 1920, features a biographical dictionary of craftsmen, along with many of their signatures and marks. Twenty-six photographs of selected makers and their instruments help place the ...
Kanawha County Cousins
George Dean (ca. 1791-1842) was born in Pennsylvania and served with the Virginia militia in the War of 1812. He marred Polly Fisher (ca. 1795-1825) in 1813 in Montgomery County, Virginia. He married 2) Anna Askins in 1828. They probably had seven children. He died in Pulaski County, Virginia. His son, James Dean (1817-before 1910), was born in Montgomery County, Virginia. He married twice and had seventeen children, ca. 1848-1881. He died in Kanawha County, West Virginia. Record lists the children and some grandchildren of each generation but chiefly traces line of descent to Carolyn Ann Dean. She was born at Charleston, West Virginia, in 1938, the daughter of Carlous Arthur Dean (1906-1986) and Phyliss Daisy Perry Dean (1907-1979). She married Charles Shields in 1978. She had three children from previous marriages and he had four children from a previous marriage; making a combined family of seven children. Children, step children and grandchildren live in Indiana and West Virginia.
An Artist's War
WHEN the First World War broke out, Morris Meredith Williams was living in Edinburgh with his wife Alice, a sculptor, and earning his living from book illustration and teaching. A short man, his attempt to join the army in 1914 failed, but six months later he was accepted by the 17th Battalion, The Welsh Regiment, the first Bantam battalion to be raised in Wales.From June 1916, he spent ten months in and out of the trenches of the Western Front near Loos, Arras and the Somme, later mapping enemy positions from aerial reconnaissance shots with the Heavy Artillery. In 1918 he joined the Royal Engineers' camouflage unit at Wimereux. After the peace, he was among a handful of artists kept back t...
