Horn-u-Copia's Display of Makers

CJ Whitney

Detroit, MI

USA

1870 - 1900

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  1855 C. J. Whitney, agent, #173 Park
  
  
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  1860 Clark James Whitney (1832-1903), melodian maker,
  Detroit
  
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  1861 CJ Whitney, melodian manufacturer, #38 Park
  
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  1869 CJ Whitney & Co., #197 Jefferson Ave.
  
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  1870 CJ Whitney & Co., music store, #107 Jefferson Ave.
  
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  1874 new store at #40 Fort Street West
  
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  1880 CJ Whitney, music store, son Frederick (b.1861) is clerk
  1880 CJ starts the Brush Electric Co.; later Detroit Edison Co.
  
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  1886 still at #40 Fort St. West
  
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  1889 publisher & importer, #40 Fort St. West
  
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  1891 new store opens at #141-145 Woodward Ave.; pianos,
  organs & imported European instruments
  
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  1899 The CJ Whitney Co., #141 Woodward, pianos & organs
  
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  1900 CJ Whitney, capitalist, h. #435 Woodward Ave.; son
  Bertram Cecil Whitney (1870-1929) is theater manager
  
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  1903 CJ dies in NYC
  
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  1910 Bert Whitney, theatrical office, #427 Woodward
  
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  1929 Bertram, retired, dies on Long Island
  

Brass instruments found are made by Arsene Lecomte of
Paris. Based on the bell markings of Lecomte, these date to
the 1875 to 1889 period.

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