Vignettes of Music Education History

Milton Z. Tinker was born in Ashtabula County, Ohio, June 25, 1834. He studied for a short time at the Normal Musical Institute of Bradbury and Cody in Chicago in the late ‘50's. He had conducted singing classes and conventions in Illinois and Iowa before ac- cepting the position at Terre Haute in 1863. He went to Evansville in 1867 and taught there until February 1914. He died in November of that year. The information used in this "vignette" was gleaned from the Evansville Daily Journal, September 4, 1883, and from the annual reports of the Board of Education of the Evans-ville Public Schools for the years 1881-82. This is the fourth in the series of vignettes of music education history prepared by Mr. Gary, who is head of the Music Department at Austin Peay State College, Clarksville, Tennessee.