Ambrose, John Lee 10.aug.1844-19.sep.1910 USA New Hampshire, Sandwich - Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
basso profundo, 1851 studied violin, 1855-1865 organist at the Baptist Church in Sandwich, 1865-1871 organist in East Cambridge, then studied voice with John Frederick Rudolphsen, singer with various quartettes in Boston, engaged at Tremont Temple, at Warren Avenue Baptist Church and Ruggles Street Baptist Church, 22.may.1871-17.may.1880 member of the Putnam Freemason Lodge, 1874 until death first assistant clerk of courts for Middlesex county Massachusetts, 1880 leading basso in the choir of Harvard Baptist Church, 1.mar.1881 joined the John Abbot Freemason Lodge, at time of death residing at 32 Warren Avenue in Boston Summerville Massachusetts ; son of Merritt Ambrose (New Hampshire, Sandwich 13.may.1810-7.aug.1883 Sandwich) and Martha Olive Folsom (New Hampshire, Sanbornton 28.jun.1814-11.nov.1898 Somerville) ; 27.nov.1873 in Waldoboro Maine he married Emma F Soule (Waldoboro 1847-1927 Somerville)

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[] Florence waltz. Piano
music J. L. Ambrose - ? John Lee Ambrose
pub White, Smith & Perry, Boston 1872

[] (details unknown). has composed church music and has prepared a book of Male Quartettes for the work of the masonic lodge
[Mathews 1889]

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