Photo in about 1910.

Glenn Dillard Gunn, born 2 Oct 1874 in Topeka, Kansas. He was a concert pianist, conductor and critic (published in 5 or 6 different newspapers); he studied piano at the Royal Conservatory in Leipzig, Germany and in Berlin before 1900. He founded and conducted the old "American Symphony Orchestra" of Chicago (1915). He is the author of "Music: it's History and Enjoyment", published in 1939, copyright renewed 15 Mar 1967. He died in 1963. (mostly from notes by Rosalie Woodson Collins).

Obituary in the New York Times, Nov. 24, 1963: "Dr. Glenn Dillard Gunn, 89, Retired Musician and Critic" -special to The New York Times --
WASHINGTON, Nov. 24-- Dr. Glenn Dillard Gunn, retired concert pianist, conductor and critic, died Friday in the Oakhaven Convalescent Home here. He was 89 years old.
Dr. Gunn was with the old Washington Times Herald when he retired in 1954. Earlier he had worked in Chicago at the Journal, The Inter-Ocean, The Tribune and The Herald and Examiner.
He was born in Topeka, Kan. and before the turn of the century studied piano at the Royal Conservatory in Leipzig, Germany. He continued his studies in Berlin and returned to the United States in 1900.
Dr. Glenn founded, in 1915, and conducted the old American Symphony Orchestra of Chicago and appeared as soloist with many other .... orehestras. He was a ... lecturer at several universities.
He was the author of "Music: Its History and Enjoyment", which was published in 1939.
Survivors are his widow nd two daughters, Mrs. Jospeh Stephens and Mrs. Janet McLean.

Photo about 1910

Glenn Dillard Gunn Collection, Library of Congress, donated by daughters Janet and Nancy Gunn in 1971:
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/service/music/eadxmlmusic/eadpdfmusic/mu002001_x.pdf:
"Primarily correspondence from, among others, Ferruccio Busoni, Teresa Care�o, Percy Grainger, and Moriz Rosenthal. Also photographs, many with autograph inscriptions including those of Claude Debussy, Victor Herbert, and John McCormack. Music is represented by manuscripts and autographed presentation scores (printed). The ramainder consists of miscellaneous personal papers, programs, and clippings."

Information on wife and her lineage from http://awt.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=:1043200&id=I1985
Rebecca Feldman , June 2003.

SSDI: GLENN GUNN 02 Oct 1874 Nov 1963 (Maryland) 336-01-6377 Illinois

1920 US census, IL, Cook Co., River Forest Twp. or Village (image 17/33 ancestry.com)
Glenn D. Gunn, head, 45, b:KS, fb:Canada, mb:KY
Bessie, wife, 38, b:IL, fb:PA, mb:Norway
Donald, son, 8, b:IL, fb:KS, mb:IL
Janet, dau, 4 and 4/12, b:IL, fb:KS, mb:IL
Nancy, dau, 3 and 3/12, b:IL, fb:KS, mb:IL
Liela C., mother, 73, b:KY, fb:KY, mb:VA
Mary Di Lange, aunt-in-law, 61 , b:Norway, fb:Norway, mb:Norway

1930 US census, IL, Cook Co., Twp./Village of River Forest
Glenn Dillard Gunn, 55, proprietor music school, b:KS, fb:Canada, mb:KY
Bessie Bracken, 48, b:IL, fb:PA, mb:Norway
Janet Elizabeth, 14, b:IL, fb:KS, mb:IL
Nancy Eleanor, 13, b:IL, fb:KS, mb:IL
Own house valued at $20000. Ages of first marriages 27 and 21 for Glenn and Bessie.

Deathplace given variously as Maryland in SSDI and as Chicago, IL in ancestry file of Rebecca Feldman.

From handwritten notes of first cousin Lucy Furman, Glenn Dillard Gunn was born 2 Oct 1874 in ?Emporia?, KS, married in 189? Bessie Bracken, had one son and two daughters.

• Married: abt 1902

1. Nancy Eleanor GUNN b: Oct 1917 in IL
2. Janet Elizabeth GUNN b: Sep 1916 in IL
3. Donald Bracken GUNN b: 27 Feb 1911 in IL