Horn-u-Copia's Display of Makers

• 1876 Emil Wulschner (1847-1900) marries widow Flora Stewart, who was finishing her music studies in Munich, and moves with her to Indianapolis. He is listed in the
• 1876 city directory as William E. Wulschner, teacher of German
• 1877 Emil Wulschner, clerk for Albert Gall, carpets & wallpaper
• 1878 E.W., clerk for Henry Benham music store, #36 E. Wash.
• 1879 E.W., pianos, organs & musical merchandise, #44 N. Penn.
• 1880 Flora is working as a music teacher
• 1884 now at #42 & 44 N. Pennsylvania Ave., music & inst.
• 1888 Wulschner becomes sole US importer for Boosey brass instruments
• 1893 now Emil Wulschner & Son, #42-44 N. Penn. with stepson Alexander M. Stewart (1867-?)
• 1896 start producing guitars and mandolins under the ‘Regal’ name which is later sold to Lyon & Healy
• 1897 now at #78-80 N. Penn.
• 1897 now at #128-130 N. Penn.

• 1900 Emil dies in April and the company is formed as Wulschner-Stewart Music Co. with Flora as president and Alexander as VP & manager, #128-130 N. Penn.
• 1909 Flora dies and Alexander becomes the company president; they move to #229-231 N. Penn.
• 1913 W-S Music Co. is now run by William Woodley; Alexander starts the A.M. Stewart Realty Co.
• 1914 last year that W-S Music Co. is listed
• 1916 Alexander starts the Stewart Talking Machine Co., with his two sons, which survives into the 1920s
• 1930 Stewart is back to just selling real estate

Brass instruments can be dated with the bell marking. ‘Emil Wulschner’ = 1879-1892; ‘E. Wulschner & Son’ = 1893- 1900; ‘Wulschner-Stewart Music Co.’ = 1900-1914.

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