Pipe Organ Database

See also: Reuben Midmer & Son.

From the OHS PC Database, derived from A Guide to North American Organbuilders by David H. Fox (Organ Historical Society, 1991). —

Son of Reuben Midmer; partner with his father in Reuben Midmer & Sons, 1875; he purchased the firm from his father's estate, 1895; and relocated the firm from Brooklyn to Merrick, New York. He sold his interest in the firm to Maximillion Averbeck, c. 1915; the firm continued under the same name until 1924 when it became Midmer-Losh. Reed Midmer Sr. died May 27, 1918 in Merrick, New York.

Sources:

• The Diapason July 1918, 9.
• David L. Junchen, Encyclopedia of the American Theatre Organ, vol. 1 (Pasadena: Showcase Publications, 1985), 316.
• Orpha Ochse, The History of the Organ in the United States (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1975), 279.