2004-10-30/2019-12-12 - From the OHS PC Database, derived from A Guide to North American Organbuilders, by David H. Fox (Richmond, Va.: Organ Historical Society, 1991). — With Union Pacific Railroad, president; owner of Washington Aluminum Co. and Empire Steel Castings, Inc; in Washington, DC; member of investor group which acquired M.P. Möller firm of Hagerstown, Maryland, 1989. Source: The American Organist, June 1989, 60.
2019-12-13/2019-12-13 - From Organ Database Builders editor Charles Eberline, December 12, 2019. — Paul J. Coughlin Jr. was a former president of Eastmet Corporation, a Baltimore steelmaking firm, and the owner of Washington Aluminum Company, Baltimore, and Empire Castings, Reading, Pennsylvania, when he headed the investor group that acquired M.P. Möller in 1989. The other members of the investor group were Roland G. Funk, John W. Seniff, and Harold B. Wright. Despite initial optimism, Möller was deeply in debt and continued to lose money, workers soon became disenchanted, and the firm was forced to declare bankruptcy in 1992. Coughlin is currently the managing member at Federal City Capital Partners, Greenwich, Connecticut. Sources: Ross Hetrick, “’It’s Not a Very Happy Story’: Organ Maker’s Collapse Leaves Many in the Lurch,” Baltimore Sun, November 8, 1992, accessed December 27, 2018, https://www.baltimoresun.com/news/bs-xpm-1992-11-08-1992313159-story.html. Eugene L. Meyer, “Founding Family to Sell Moller Organ Works,” Washington Post, March 9, 1989, accessed December 27, 2018, https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/business/1989/03/09/founding-family-to-sell-moller-organ-works/3c1f8f21-5a22-4948-a9f0-8fa2cfaad77f/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.4638ab39768c. “Moller Family to Sell Pipe Organ Company,” Washington Post, April 3, 1989, accessed December 27, 2018, https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/business/1989/04/03/moller-family-to-sell-pipe-organ-company/89677708-1efd-465d-991c-72e23b6cbd24/?utm_term=.20b3148dc01a. “Paul J. Coughlin, Jr., Managing Member,” Federal City Capital Partners LLC, accessed November 23, 2019, http://www.federalcitycap.com/team.php?member=coughlin.
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