Word: scholer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Music Merger. A sharp, small Manhattan lawyer named Jacob Scholer was given a difficult task in 1929 by Irving Trust Co. He was to handle the run-down affairs of American Piano Co., petitioned into receivership. So well did he do it that within a year the creditors were paid and plans for a reorganization perfected. A new company, American Piano Corp.. bought the assets of the old company, entered the manufacture of such famed instruments as the Knabe (Metropolitan Opera's favorite). Chickering (family use). Mason & Hamlin (artists) and the Ampico Player Piano...
Several men received the same degree as of the Class of 1930. They were: R. W. Canfield, of New York City, Samuel Cauman, of Brookline, J. E. McKenna, of Brighton, E. W. Olney, Jr., of Convent, New Jersey, J. J. Riley, of Charlestown, F. J. Von Scholer, Jr., of Huntington, Long Island, N. Y., R. A. Thomas, of New York City, and F. C. Troll, of St. Clairsville, Ohio...