2004-10-30/2019-09-26 - From the OHS PC Database, derived from A Guide to North American Organbuilders by David H. Fox (Organ Historical Society, 1991). — Son of Reuben Midmer; partner with his father in Reuben Midmer & Sons, 1875; he purchased the firm from his father's estate, 1895; and relocated the firm from Brooklyn to Merrick, New York. He sold his interest in the firm to Maximillion Averbeck, c. 1915; the firm continued under the same name until 1924 when it became Midmer-Losh. Reed Midmer Sr. died May 27, 1918 in Merrick, New York. Sources: The Diapason July 1918, 9. David L. Junchen, Encyclopedia of the American Theatre Organ, vol. 1 (Pasadena: Showcase Publications, 1985), 316. Orpha Ochse, The History of the Organ in the United States (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1975), 279.
2015-11-03/2019-09-26 - See also: Reuben Midmer & Son.
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