![]() ![]() By 1882 Frank was listed simply as a “laborer”, as inauspicious beginning for a man whose surname would become one of the most famous in musical instrument history. His occupation was listed as being a “Cooper”, or one who makes tubs and barrels. Frank had returned to East Toledo in about 1879, living at home with his parents on the southwest corner of Utah and Wilmot. ![]() Conn factory records were destroyed by fire on, and Elkhart City Directories do not list Frank as a resident. Conn’s musical instrument factory in Elkhart, Indiana, presumably at the approximate age of 16 years. It has been reported, but not corroborated, that, Frank worked in C.G. The family moved to Toledo, Ohio when Frank was young. Assuredly, it was prior to 1910, the traditional formation of the Olds firm, but could have been as early as the mid-to late 1880’s.Īlva James Olds and Sarah Merril Averill (Olds), Frank’s parents, lived in Lockport, New York, but Frank was born in nearby Medina on. The date on which Frank Ellsworth Olds made his first brass musical instrument is not recorded.
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