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Music Trade Review

Issue: 1894 Vol. 18 N. 47

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THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW.
M. P. BARNES.
Leland L. Newcomb was born in Franklin,
Johnson County, Indiana, July 17th, 1856. After
leaving the Union School at Liberty, Indiana,
he served an apprenticeship in a wholesale and re-
tail drug store at Indianapolis, Ind. Afterwards
represented for a number of years the Meyer
Bros. Drug Co., of St. Louis, Mo. Located in
Wichita, Kans., 18S5. For the past three years
has been engaged in the music business under
the firm name of Barnes & Newcomb. The
trade of this firm has rapidly increased. They
are now doing a large business in Kansas and
Oklahoma Territory.
Oscar D. Barnes, of the firm of Barnes & New-
comb, was born 1853. Educated at Union
School, Kalatnazoo, Mich. Was in drug and
general merchandise business at Richland, Mich.,
for ten years. Came to Kansas in 1879, engag-
ing in the drug and book business under the firm
name of M. P. Barnes & Son. Three years ago
formed partnership and entered in the music trade
style of the firm being Barnes & Newcomb. Mr.
Barnes is a Knight Templar and a successful
business man.
JOSEPH FLANNER,
BARNES & NEWCOMB,
Wichita.
M. P. Barnes, the senior member of this firm,
was born June 24th, 1824, at Camden, N. Y.
flilwaukee.
At an early age he emigrated to Kaiamazoo,
Mr. Flanner is the son of a Scotch physician
Michigan. He was engaged in general mer-
who came from Wilmington, N. C , to Louisiana,
chandise and drug business at Richland, Michi-
in 1840. The then leading music dealer of the
Cream City was also a native of Louisiana and
made his entrance upon the world's stage at
New Orleans just forty years ago. Mr. Flanner
spent eight years abroad mastering the French
LELAND S. NEWCOMB.
gan, lor twenty years, and removed to Wichita,
Kans., 1879. He erected a number of business
buildings, among them the palatial Richland
Block, where his firm is now located in the
music business.
Barnes & Newcomb are among the successful
firms of the West. They sell the Steinway,
Bradbury, Mason & Hamlin, Decker & Son
Henning, Prescott and Bush & Gerts pianos.
OSCAR D. HARNES.
JOSEl'H FLANNKR.
and German languages and returned to this
country in 1884, when he engaged in a large
cotton shipping house in New Orleans, and in
1876 he embarked into the music business, and
during the past eighteen years he has devoted
his entire attention to every detail of that busi-
ness, and to-day he is one of the best posted men
in the trade. He has a magnificent establish-
ment on Grand avenue where he carries an im-
mense stock of sheet music and musical instru-
ments of every description on the lower floors,
while on the upper floors he carries a stock of
pianos and organs equal to any in this country,
and prominently among them are the old Re-
liable Knabe, the Favorite Behning, and many
other popular makes of pianos. Mr. Flanner is
also well known in the trade as a publisher of
popular music ; among a few of his publications,
which have become very popular throughout
the country are: "Hearts," " A s We Sang
and Played Together," " Lucile," "Silence Is
Golden," " L e t Us Kiss," " W h y Is Not
Mamma H e r e , " " American Cavalry March,"
"Salvation Army March," etc., etc. By a
liberal use of printers' ink he has made his
name and his musical establishment household
words in Milwaukee and throughout the West
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B. L. GRISWOLD.
B. L. GRI3W0LD HUSIC CO.,
St. Joseph.
Mr. B. L. Griswold, the president of the Com-
pany, was born in St. Joseph, Mo., January nth,
1862. After a short experience in the dry goods
business, Mr. Griswold accepted a position with
T. J. Washburn, with whom he continued ten
years. In the month of December, 1890, he em-
barked in business for himself, purchasing a
stock of small musical merchandise formerly
owned by Huyett Bros. This venture proved a
success from the start, and in order to handle
the increasing business a company was formed
in August, 1892. The success of this house
still continuing, the capital stock was doubled
in August, 1893. The present title of the firm
is the B. L. Griswold Music Company.
Mr. W. B. Shackelford, secretary, was born in
Rockville, Ind., September 12th, 1862. He
came to St. Joseph on September 12th, 1881.
Mr. Shackelford was engaged for several years
in the jobbing business as bookkeeper and in
the credit department, his last position being
traveling adjuster for the Jno. S. Brittain Dry
Goods Co. December 1st, 1893, Mr. Shackel-
ford, already one of the largest stockholders in
this company, became active in the business,
and was elected to the office of secretary and
treasurer. Mr. Shackelford looks after the
finances and duties pertaining to his office.
Mr. Shackelford and Mr. Griswold are both
young, active and experienced business men,
with ample ability to handle and to take care of
the company's fast increasing business, which
is assuming large proportions.
W. B. SHACK BLFORD.
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RUDOLPH WURUTZER.
R. C. MUNGER,
St. Paul.
Russel C. Munger, sometimes known as
" Uncle Russ," of whom a portrait accompanies
this sketch, is a native of Connecticut. He was
born in the town of Madison in 1837, received
his education at New Haven, Conn., between
1848 and 1856, and came to St. Paul in 1857.
He engaged in the commission business for a
year, when he and his brother bought out and
started a music store in Concert Hall Block.
They soon gathered about them the best musical
element of the city, and began selling pianos, in
which line of business they made a great deal of
money. They ran fourteen years through seve-
ral of the severest financial times on record. He
was interested in and part owner of the first
opera house built in the city, and managed the
same successfully for eight years. For seven
years he was leader of the Great Western Band.
In 1878 he resumed his old music business, and
THE A. H. WHITNEY CO.,
Quincy.
The Whitney & Holmes Organ Co. was
established in 1868 by A. H. Whitney, for the
purpose of manufacturing organs. In addition
to this a jobbing trade in pianos was com-
menced which has continued to date in connec-
tion with the company's organ business. In
1890 the charter of the Whitney & Holmes
Organ Co. expired and the concern was re-in-
corporated under the name of The A. H. Whit-
ney Co. After the death of the founder, A. H.
Whitney, the business passed into the hands of
his sons who will continue to push it along the
original lines which were adopted at its origin.
They are pushing first and foremost, the
" Whitney " organ ; in pianos they handle the
Hazelton, Shaw, Whitney and Sterling.
THE RUDOLPH WURLITZER CO.,
Cincinnati.
This firm was founded in 1857 by Rudolph
Wurlitzer, who came to America from the heart of
the musical instrument industry in Saxony in
1853. Up to 1890 the style of the firm was R.
Wurlitzer & Bro. In 1890 the present company
was incorporated with a capital of $200,000. The
firm does a very large wholesale musical merchan-
dise business. They handle the following pianos :
Behr Bros., Emerson, Keller Bros. They moved
into their present quaiters at 23 West 4th street,
in 1891. The building is 175 feet deep, 28 feet
wide and six floors.
W. SHARP,
Sedalia.
W. Sharp was the first man in Central Mis-
souri to make a systematic canvas of the music
business and to sell pianos and organs direct to
the houses. He commenced wheeling out in-
struments in 1876 and from that time his teams
have been on the go, and increasing in number
until he has a most prosperous business. Mr.
Sharp is an Englishman by birth but has been
an American citizen for 45 years, believing in
J. W. WHITNKY.
R. C. MUNGER.
has ever since been engaged in it. A more hon-
orable and straightforward citizen and business
man it would be hard to find. He is also public
spirited, as his many acts demonstrate. He is
one of the old stand-bys of that city, and his
friends wish him many more years of health,
prosperity and business. He has been identified
with all matters of interest connected with the
development of St. Paul. Mr. Munger at pre-
sent handles the Decker & Son, Briggs, Blasius,
Haines Bros, and Lester pianos and the Sterling
organs. He also carries a full line of "small
goods " of every description as well as sheet
music and music books.
JOHN T. WAHELINK,
Cleveland.
John T. Wamelink is one of the " Old
Guards " of the music business. He started in
the piano business in Pittsburg in 1854, and
had the William B. Bradbury piano for his
JOHN T. WAMELINK.
w. SHARP.
his city and State and has become one of the
representative men of Central Missouri.
He learned his trade at the bench and in the
factory, knows his business thoroughly, has
always been a splendid specimen of integrity
with a wholesome contempt for the sharks and
Shylocks of the trade ; now in his sixtieth year
he writes he has a fighting weight of 185 lbs.
and vim and vigor equal to the vicissitudes and
emergencies incident to any energetic business
enterprise.
F. H. WHITNEY.
leader. He was very successful in Pittsburg
but on account of his family moved to Cleve-
land. After one year's rest he bought the store
at 376 Superior street which he occupied for 29
years. He has just removed to 145 and 147
Euclid avenue, a much better location for his
business. Mr. Wamelink has had the agency
for many noted pianos including the Steinway &
Sons, Weber, and Kroeger. For the past 16
years he has had the agency for the Henry
F. Miller, Hardman and Vose & Sons, later
taking the Emerson and Foster pianos. His

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