Charles Chauncey Mellor. 



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Reinhart, became members of the choir of this church, Miss Laura 

 Reinhart being chosen as one of the sopranos, and Mr. Charles 

 Stanley Reinhart assuming the jjart of one of the bassos. Mr. 

 Charles Stanley Reinhart was destined subsequently to become very 

 eminent, not as a singer, but as an illustrator and painter. Between 

 himself and Mr. Mellor, the young organist, there was soon formed 

 a close friendship, as they were of like ages and tastes, and the 

 acquaintance with the brother led to an acquaintance with the 

 sister, whom he had already known as one of the favorite pupils of 

 Professor Tetedoux, and on the twentieth of June, 1867, they were 

 united in wedlock. They made their home in Allegheny, living 

 first in Cedar Street and in 1873 taking up their residence in Rob- 

 inson Street where Mr. Mellor built for himself a comfortable house, 



Mr. Mellor's interest in the organ, upon which he was rapidly 

 under his own tuition becoming proficient, impelled him in the 

 year 1870 to endeavor so far as possible to improve himself, and 

 he accordingly repaired to Boston, where he made arrangements 

 with Professor Dudley Buck and Mr. John H. Wilcox to give him 

 instruction. He remained there nearly two months studying tech- 

 nique and interpretation under Mr. Buck, and registration under 

 Mr. Wilcox. His visits to Boston were continued from time to 

 time in subsequent years, and he always availed himself of these 

 occasions to study seriously under one or the other of these great 

 masters, who were at that time regarded as the ablest organists in 

 America. In 1873 he erected in his new home an organ blown by 

 a water-motor, the first one set up in Pittsburgh, and here he passed 

 many happy hours, holding the rehearsals of the choir of the First 

 Presbyterian Church under his own roof, and gathering about him 

 many of his cultivated musical friends. 



In 1878, on June 13, Mr. Mellor, accompanied by his wife and 

 oldest son, made a tour covering five months in Europe, visiting 

 England, the Netherlands, France, Germany, and Switzerland. 

 In 1 88 1 the family temporarily removed to the old Bakewell Home 

 above what was then known as Superior Station on the Fort Wayne 

 Railroad, where, surrounded by trees and orchards, a couple of 

 years were pleasantly passed. 



It was characteristic of Mr. Mellor, while devoting himself with 

 unflagging energy to the cares of his growing business and to his 



