Note from Organ Database Builders editor Stephen Hall, September 15, 2017. -

Phillip Wirsching passed his business on to his son, Clarence Wirsching, and one of his staff members, Eugene Martin Binder in 1914. The two new owners reorganized the company as a partnership and hired former owner Phillip Wirsching to manage the shop. It is not clear why, but by 1917 the partnership was in desparate need of operating funds. To raise capital, Clarence Wirsching and Binder made an agreement with Leonard Peloubet of Pittsburgh, and a certificate of incorporation was issued by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania on June 20, 1917, for the newly formed Wirsching-Peloubet Company. Peloubet never produced the cash, and the new corporation was not in any better financial condition than the previous partnership.

The elder Wirsching left the company in 1919 and moved to Milwaukee where he became tonal director at Weickhart-Wangerin Co. Clarence Wersching and Eugene Binder continued operating the struggling business until 1925 when M.P. Moller acquired the company and closed it.

Source:

• Bynum Petty, "Archives Corner: Wirsching Revisited", The Tracker, 59:4 (Richmond, Va.: Organ Historical Society, 2015), 28.

 

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The following note is from a previous version of this entry; it has been superseded by the note above, which contains new information or corrects errors or inaccuracies.

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

Succeeded Wirsching Organ Co.; partnership of Clarence E. Wirsching and Eugene Martin Binder in Salem Ohio, 1914; succeeded by Wirsching-Peloubet firm, 1919, which was acquired by M. P. Möller firm, same year. Staff: Philipp Wirsching