Willard Everett Roth was born in 1892 in Warren, Pennsylvania, and died at the age of 80 in Palenville, New York. As a young child, in 1898-99, he was the drum major in his father’s marching band. The Roth Band marched in parades including the parade and reception escorting soldiers home...
From the Houston Daily Post, Friday, November 10, 1916: “Miss Grace Wilbur Brown, juggler, pistol twirler and baton spinner, will be radily recognized by the school children as the drum major who has been leading the big parades of the Woman’s Fair and the Red Roosters. Miss...