Biography myron searle wright

M. Searle Wright was born April 4, 1918, in Susquehanna, PA. His grandfather, from whom he takes his first name, was the honorable Myran B. Wright, the representative from Susquehanna County and the 15th district of Pennsylvania in the U.S.

Congress until his death in 1894. Searle's boyhood and schooling were in Binghamton, NY. He showed musical promise at an early age when he improvised some tunes for a Sunday school program. One year later, at age four, he began to study piano.

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He said, modestly, "I never did too much with it, I couldn't even play a hymn from a book until I was seventeen, I always played everything by ear."

Several years after the Capitol Theater installation, Ed Link received a call from the manager.

Ed was asked to come and tune some of the pipes since the manager had scheduled a talented young boy to play a program of popular music at all performances the following week. When Ed arrived at the theater, he was introduced to twelve-year old Searle Wright who