2004-10-30/2019-09-26 - From the OHS PC Database, derived from A Guide to North American Organbuilders, by David H. Fox (Richmond, Va., Organ Historical Society, 1991). - Born May 26, 1900 in Chicago, Illinois; son of Jerome B. Meyer, father of Charles T., Jr., and Gordon L. Meyer; with family firm of Jerome B. Meyer & Sons of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 1906-1935; with Ernest Skinner* firm of Boston, Massachusetts, 1935-1937; pipemaker; with Wicks Pipe Organ Co. of Highland, Illinois, 1937-1940; returned to Meyer firm of Milwaukee, 1940-1984, head of firm, 1949-1984; died March 2, 1986. *Ernest Skinner was still with Aeolian-Skinner in 1935 and part of 1936. He left the firm in 1936 and formed his own company, but it was in Methune, Massachusetts, not Boston. Perhaps Mayers joined Aeolian-Skinner in 1935 and left with Skinner when he formed his own firm. —Ed. Sources: The Diapason, July 1924, 15. The Diapason, October 1949, 8. The Diapason, October 1973, 21. The Diapason, June 1986, 4. Myers family records. Elizabeth Towne Schmitt. Elizabeth Towne Schmitt, "Pipe Making - A Family Tradition", The Tracker, 23:2, (Richmond, Va.: Organ Historical Society, 1979), 18. The American Organist June 1986, 56.
2015-10-04/2020-04-09 - See main entry: Jerome B. Meyer & Sons
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