Julius Estey

Biography

Julius Estey, son of Jacob Estey, is described as an enterprising but careful businessman who took on management of the company after the deaths of his father's two senior partners. Carrying the 'inborn Estey spirit,' he sought new fields to expand the business and spread the Estey name, commencing the building of large church organs in 1901 and erecting a special factory equipped for that purpose. He did not live to see this new enterprise fully developed, dying on March 7, 1902, at age 57. His sons Jacob Gray Estey and J. Harry Estey succeeded him as managers, assisted by longtime office manager L. W. Hawley. A portrait of Julius Estey accompanies the text. Julius Estey, son of Jacob Estey, was admitted to partnership in the organ business alongside Levi K. Fuller, and in 1866 was named secretary and treasurer of the newly organized Estey Organ Company, with his father as president and Fuller as vice-president. From Spillane (1890): Julius Estey, a principal of the Estey Piano Company in New York, was the son of Jacob Estey, the well-known organ specialist and manufacturer. He received his training in the commercial and practical sides of the business in Brattleboro, Vermont, before joining the Estey Piano Company alongside fellow principals R. Proddow and J. B. Simpson.

Highlights

• Son of Jacob Estey; admitted to partnership and named secretary-treasurer of the Estey Organ Company at its 1866 organization
• Son of Jacob Estey, described as an enterprising but careful businessman
• Expanded the business into large church organ manufacturing, building a new factory in 1901
• Died March 7, 1902, aged 57, before seeing the new enterprise fully developed
• Son of Jacob Estey, the well-known organ specialist and manufacturer
• Principal of the Estey Piano Company, trained in the business at Brattleboro, Vermont

Sources

Alfred Dolge, Pianos and Their Makers, Vol. I (1911), pp. 364, 365.

Daniel Spillane, History of the American Pianoforte (1890), p. 284.

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