Cornelius T. Dondore

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)sort descendingAsInstancesIncipit
[After the cross I have patiently borne]C. T. Dondore (Harmonizer)233332 15432 22212
[All the air is hushed and holy] (Dondore)C. T. Dondore (Composer)213316 11655 13322
[Calmed are earth's passions]C. T. Dondore (Composer)234326 76533 43267
FANCHERC. T. Dondore (Composer)213534 54332 34543
[Go work in my vineyard, the husbandman said]C. T. Dondore (Composer)115556 71565 33323
[God comes to His vineyard seeking for fruit]C. T. Dondore (Composer)255651 55653 34321
[Hail the blessed Sabbath day]C. T. Dondore (Composer)211315 53654 33221
[Jesus dear, I hear thee say]C. T. Dondore (Composer)233321 56665 17123
[Little children should be Christian]C. T. Dondore (Composer)211315 65323 45653
[Little ones are often sorry] (Dondore)C. T. Dondore (Composer)255556 66655 55132
[Lo! I hear the Saviour calling]C. T. Dondore (Composer)255153 33211 11352
[Oh, many are the souls for which the Saviour died]C. T. Dondore (Harmonizer)251111 11222 22222
[Steht fest, steht fest für Jesum]C. T. Dondore (Composer)411111 13333 34321
[The Sabbath morn is bright and clear]C. T. Dondore (Harmonizer)251311 61535 13217
[There is a home, a heavenly home]C. T. Dondore (Composer)213353 16556 65132
[This day is thine, O gracious Lord]C. T. Dondore (Composer)253217 61551 11232
[Twas Jesus that was crucified]C. T. Dondore (Harmonizer)256717 32153 67651
[We gaze on the hills of the heavenly land]C. T. Dondore (Harmonizer)251111 55222 25333
[We will follow Jesus, Jesus crucified]C. T. Dondore (Composer)255651 76666 21712
[With truth in every swinging tongue]C. T. Dondore (Composer)213323 44665 51121
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