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Patrick Conway spent most of his life in central New York State. Born on July 4, 1865, he began playing cornet on his doctor's suggestion that it might strengthen his lungs (his father, two sisters and a brother all died from tuberculosis). In time he studied music at Cornell and the Ithaca Conservatory. In 1895 Conway was engaged to teach music at Cornell University where he organized the Cornell Cadet Band and directed it for thirteen years. It was during this time that the City of Ithaca requested him to organize a city band.