Short Name: | Cornelius T. Dondore |
Full Name: | Dondore, Cornelius T. |
Birth Year: | 1842 |
Death Year: | 1922 |
Cornelius T. Dondore was born 18 July 1842 in Pennsylvania to a family of Alsatian extraction that had settled in Berks County during the Colonial era. Little has been discovered about his early life, but popular songs and piano works by C. T. Dondore appeared in advertisements in Buffalo, N.Y. newspapers as early as 1867, and in various midwestern cities over the next few years. Dondore conducted a choral concert in Findlay, Ohio on 21 March 1871. By 1872 he was dealing in pianos and organs from a store at 157 Summit Street in Toledo, Ohio, but by 1879 had moved to Findlay, Ohio where he lived off investments in real estate. Dondore suffered from unspecified ill health, and by 1890 had relocated to San Diego, California where he pursued farming. He died there 27 May 1922.
Sources:
FamilySearch, "The Family Tree," database, FamilySearch (www.familysearch.org : accessed 3 March 2025), Cornelius T. Dondore (MRZS-MNN), Details.
Advertisements, Buffalo Daily Republic, 13 August 1867, page 3. Newspapers.com.
Advertisements, The Weekly Gazette (Kansas City), 13 March 1869, page 2. Newspapers.com.
"Grand Concert!", The Hancock Courier (Findlay, OH), 16 March 1871, page 2. Newspapers.com.
"Local business notices", The Tiffin Tribune (Tiffin, OH), 18 January 1872, page 3. Newspapers.com
Advertisement for C. T. Dondore, The Fremont Weekly Journal (Fremont, OH), 8 May 1874, page 1. Newspapers.com.
"Local", The Worthington Advance (Worthington, MN), 17 May 1877, page 3. Newspapers.com
Brennan, J. Fletcher. "Rawson, Bass," A Biographical Cyclopaedia and Portrait Gallery of Distinguished Men (Cincinnati: John C. Yorston, 1879), page 345-346.
--David Russell Hamrick
Tunes by Cornelius T. Dondore (20)![]() | As | Instances | Incipit |
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[After the cross I have patiently borne] | C. T. Dondore (Harmonizer) | 2 | 33332 15432 22212 |
[All the air is hushed and holy] (Dondore) | C. T. Dondore (Composer) | 2 | 13316 11655 13322 |
[Calmed are earth's passions] | C. T. Dondore (Composer) | 2 | 34326 76533 43267 |
FANCHER | C. T. Dondore (Composer) | 2 | 13534 54332 34543 |
[Go work in my vineyard, the husbandman said] | C. T. Dondore (Composer) | 1 | 15556 71565 33323 |
[God comes to His vineyard seeking for fruit] | C. T. Dondore (Composer) | 2 | 55651 55653 34321 |
[Hail the blessed Sabbath day] | C. T. Dondore (Composer) | 2 | 11315 53654 33221 |
[Jesus dear, I hear thee say] | C. T. Dondore (Composer) | 2 | 33321 56665 17123 |
[Little children should be Christian] | C. T. Dondore (Composer) | 2 | 11315 65323 45653 |
[Little ones are often sorry] (Dondore) | C. T. Dondore (Composer) | 2 | 55556 66655 55132 |
[Lo! I hear the Saviour calling] | C. T. Dondore (Composer) | 2 | 55153 33211 11352 |
[Oh, many are the souls for which the Saviour died] | C. T. Dondore (Harmonizer) | 2 | 51111 11222 22222 |
[Steht fest, steht fest für Jesum] | C. T. Dondore (Composer) | 4 | 11111 13333 34321 |
[The Sabbath morn is bright and clear] | C. T. Dondore (Harmonizer) | 2 | 51311 61535 13217 |
[There is a home, a heavenly home] | C. T. Dondore (Composer) | 2 | 13353 16556 65132 |
[This day is thine, O gracious Lord] | C. T. Dondore (Composer) | 2 | 53217 61551 11232 |
[Twas Jesus that was crucified] | C. T. Dondore (Harmonizer) | 2 | 56717 32153 67651 |
[We gaze on the hills of the heavenly land] | C. T. Dondore (Harmonizer) | 2 | 51111 55222 25333 |
[We will follow Jesus, Jesus crucified] | C. T. Dondore (Composer) | 2 | 55651 76666 21712 |
[With truth in every swinging tongue] | C. T. Dondore (Composer) | 2 | 13323 44665 51121 |