The Perfect Melodeon: The Origins of the Estey Organ Company, 1846–1866*

Milton J. Nadworny

Business History Review, 1959, vol. 33, issue 1, 43-59

Abstract: The founding of the Estey Organ Company is a case study in the precarious cut-and-try method by which, in the nineteenth century, most American firms were created. Fleeting partnerships reflected the continuous search for and exhaustion of numerous small reservoirs of capital. Survival and growth were tied to increasing entrepreneurial specialization, broadening markets, and immunity to developing geographic handicaps.

Date: 1959
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