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A running list of obscure luthiers, repairman, dealers, and musical instrument manufacturing adjacent individuals who don't necessitate individual pages. These names appear on Mugwumps list of American manufacturers but I hope to provide a little more detail
Ohio
John Church
I already covered John Church here: John Church Company & Royal Manufacturing Company - Cincinnati, Ohio
John W Gillespie
Lived in Akron. Patented US1728754 for a Banjo Ukulele in 1927. He was a machinist at a 'rubber works'
Charles C Henlein
Probably a misspelling of the guy below
Charles F Henery
Lived in Akron, Patented US591472, a stamped metal tailpiece for guitar
J R Holcomb
James R Holcomb sold school and music supplies in the late 1800s
Walter S Holloway
Patented an autoharp in 1908, US975865
William L Hobill
William Hobill was an English music dealer who lived in Elyria, Ohio. He sold pianos
John Henry Holtvoight
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| 1903 Illustration of Holtvoight and his wife Image Credit: https://sites.rootsweb.com/~ohmontgs/newspapers/ddn_holtvoigt.html |
John Holtvoight was a German patternmaker who lived in Dayton, Ohio. He was born in 1830 and died in 1913.
In 1895 he patented US539056 which was a guitar neck joint where the fingerboard floated above the body
Holtvoight's occupations according to the Dayton City Directory:
- 1885 - Foreman pattern maker
- 1894 - Worked as a pattern maker
- 1896 - Musical Instrument Maker
- 1900 - Listed under the Musical Instrument category
- 1901 - ""
- 1903 - ""
- 1907 - Musical Instrument Manufacturer
- 1910 - Listed under the Musical Instrument category
- 1911 - ""
Census Records
Howard Eugene Wurlitzer
Eldest son of Franz Rudolph Wurlitzer and heir to the Rudolph Wurlitzer Company, Howard was born September 5th, 1871 in Cincinnati, Ohio.
Howard joined the Wurlitzer Company in 1889 and by 1898 was Vice President. In the 1900 census he listed his occupation as a manufacturer of musical instruments. In the 1910 census he described his work as being a merchant of musical instruments and a year later he was President of the Rudolph Wurlitzer Company.
His name appears on some labels of instruments sold by Wurlitzer. The exact origins of those instruments is unclear to me. In 1908, Wurlitzer purchased the factory of Harry J. Flower which I believe was partnered with Andrew Groehsl
George Jaberg
George Jaberg Music Co in Cincinnati
John Klueber
In 1886, John Klueber patented US337337A, a wood tailpiece
William M Mcallip
I cannot find anything on him
Vincent Moir
Vincent Moir was a metal worker, I covered him in my article on Safe-Ti-String Tuners
Frank Mustill
In 1886, he patented a banjo US350693
In 1899, Frank worked at a cigar box factory and was also a musician in Akron, Ohio
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