Carle Cotter Conway

Biography

Carle Cotter Conway graduated from Yale University at age twenty-two, entering the piano business at his father's urging. He took a position as a retail salesman with the W. W. Kimball Company, soon rising to manage that company's outside retail stores, an experience that prepared him for the larger task of managing both the wholesale and retail departments of the Hallet and Davis Company after he joined his brother, E. E. Conway, in that enterprise. Described as magnetic and a splendid mixer like his brother, he showed exceptional talent for producing telling advertising literature while remaining, at bottom, a keen and shrewd businessman. The rapid growth of Hallet and Davis Company in this period is credited to the combined, well-considered aggressiveness of the Conway brothers' management.

Highlights

• Yale graduate who entered the piano trade at his father's urging
• Managed both the wholesale and retail departments of Hallet and Davis Company
• Noted for producing effective advertising literature

Source

Alfred Dolge, Pianos and Their Makers, Vol. II (1913), pp. 107, 108.

Public domain.