George P. Reed
music dealer
Biography
George P. Reed was the music dealer who, on organist Bancroft's recommendation, gave the young Patrick Joseph Healy his first job as an errand boy. Healy soon advanced from errand boy to clerk before moving on to the music publishing house of Oliver Ditson & Company.
Highlights
- Hired young Patrick Healy as an errand boy, his first position in the music trade
Source
Alfred Dolge, Pianos and Their Makers, Vol. I (1911), p. 350.
Public domain.