S. B. Shoninger

Biography

S. B. Shoninger is noted as the son who took over direction of the Shoninger piano-making business from his father. The text credits him with continuing the firm 'under the able direction' following his father's earlier stewardship, though no further personal or biographical detail about S. B. Shoninger is given in this portion of the text beyond his role as the business's current director. From Spillane (1890): Simon B. Shoninger, son of Bernard Shoninger, was another member of the B. Shoninger Piano firm of New Haven, Conn., described by Spillane as an able business man who helped the firm maintain New York warerooms.

Highlights

• Continued direction of the Shoninger piano-making business begun by his father
• Son of Bernard Shoninger and a member of the firm, described as an able business man.

Sources

Alfred Dolge, Pianos and Their Makers, Vol. I (1911), p. 317.

Daniel Spillane, History of the American Pianoforte (1890), p. 307.

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