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Lexington Band

Also documented as: Lexington Cornet Band

LexingtonEarly 1900sTown band
Documented history with gaps
Master record129
Newspaper clipping from Lexington Leader, June 17, 1893, page 5, documenting Lexington Cornet Band.

Operational evidence

Lexington Cornet Band

The Lexington Cornet Band performed.

Lexington Leader, June 17, 1893, p. 5. Oklahoma Digital Newspaper Program, Oklahoma Historical Society, via The Gateway to Oklahoma History.

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Underlying newspaper issue published before 1923; public-domain publication. Oklahoma Digital Newspaper Program, Oklahoma Historical Society, and Gateway credit retained under current Gateway citation guidance.

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Documented overview

The reviewed narrative identifies the Lexington Band as a parade and patriotic-event ensemble.; A contemporary item supplies the Cornet Band form of the name and performance evidence.

Documented history with gaps. The record supports a public history, with important limitations stated on the page.

History

Identity and chronology

The reviewed narrative identifies the Lexington Band as a parade and patriotic-event ensemble.; A contemporary item supplies the Cornet Band form of the name and performance evidence.

Leadership

The reviewed evidence for Lexington Band does not identify a director, bandmaster, organizer, or complete leadership succession.

Sponsorship and participation

Lexington Band is treated as a community or municipal band because the evidence ties it to Lexington. Municipal ownership, public funding, and organizational continuity are not inferred from a town name alone.

Adult or plausibly adult; exact participation model may remain unverified.

Activity

The reviewed narrative identifies the Lexington Band as a parade and patriotic-event ensemble.; A contemporary item supplies the Cornet Band form of the name and performance evidence.

Why this band matters

Named Oklahoma community or municipal ensemble with durable evidence (Lexington Band).

Evidence timeline

What the sources establish

  1. Documented evidence

    The reviewed narrative identifies the Lexington Band as a parade and patriotic-event ensemble.; A contemporary item supplies the Cornet Band form of the name and performance evidence.

    Source 1

Current research decision

What the wording does—and does not—claim

The evidence for Lexington Band does not establish uninterrupted continuity across every named period, reorganization, alias, or possible successor. The packet therefore treats Early 1900s as the supported evidence span rather than a complete institutional chronology.

What remains unknown

For Lexington Band: confirm founding and closing dates, directors, membership, sponsorship, performances, and any successor organization from primary sources.

Evidence

Sources

The controlling project citation was reconciled against W. Scott Barger, We Want a Band!: A History of Community Bands in Oklahoma (p. 20), and the user-supplied newspaper corpus (NEWS-053).

  1. W. Scott Barger, We Want a Band!: A History of Community Bands in OklahomaBook, p. 20; user-supplied newspaper corpus: NEWS-053

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