Hi all,  When searching through ancestry.com's WW1 draft registration
cards, I managed to turn up Aeolian arranger Herman Avery Wade, with
some interesting information.  He filled in the card himself, and gives
the following information:

Address:		118 College St, New Haven, NH Conn.
Age:			41
Date of Birth:		Dec. 3rd 1876
Race:			White, native born
Occupation:		Musician, Wurlitzer Co.
Place of employment:	113-119 W. 40th St, New York
Nearest relative:	Frank R. Wade (brother), 64 Pendleton Place,
			New Brighton, S.I., N.Y.
Height:			Medium
Build:			Slender
Colour of eyes:		Brown
Colour of hair:		Brown

He also shows up in the 1910 federal census lodging at an address
in New York and listed as a 'piano dealer', and in the 1920 census
he is lodging at an address in Fairfield, Connecticut, and listed as
a 'music roll manufacturer'.  I suspect I've located him in the 1880
census too, in which he is aged 3 and living at home with his parents
Frank (a commercial traveler) and Lizzie, and siblings Blanch and
Frank.  There's also a record of a Lindale Avery Wade (female) being
born on August 14 1926 in Lincolnton, North Carolina, with father
listed as Herman Avery Wade.

The most interesting thing in this mass of information is that Wade
was arranging for Wurlitzer during the period of the draft (his card is
dated September 18, 1918).  I thought this information was interesting
enough to share!

Robert Perry
Auckland, New Zealand