”From this time to 1868 there was no regularly organized band in Fitchburg. The present Fitchburg Military Band was born Jan. 4, 1868, when eight gentlemen met in an unfinished room in Belding & Dickinson’s new block, and organized ‘The Musical Club.’ …

…The officers of the band are …C. E. Ware, Jr., secretary…”

Reference Data:

Fitchburg, Massachusetts, Past and Present, by William Andrew Emerson, 1887, pages 153-55