D. H. Baldwin
d. 1899
music teacher
piano dealer
founder
Biography
D. H. Baldwin was a music teacher in Cincinnati who sold Decker Brothers' pianos before employing Lucien Wulsin, in 1866, as a clerk and bookkeeper. As the business grew, Wulsin was admitted to partnership in 1873, and the firm took the name D. H. Baldwin & Company, later expanding into several subsidiary organ and piano manufacturing concerns. Baldwin died in 1899, leaving the bulk of his estate for missionary purposes, which would ordinarily have forced liquidation of the business had Wulsin and George W. Armstrong, Jr. not bought out the estate's stock.
Highlights
- A Cincinnati music teacher who sold Decker Brothers' pianos before founding D. H. Baldwin & Company with Lucien Wulsin as partner
- Died in 1899, leaving the bulk of his estate for missionary purposes
Source
Alfred Dolge, Pianos and Their Makers, Vol. I (1911).
Public domain.