Category:Chicago Cottage Organ Company

The Chicago Cottage Organ Company was formed in 1880 in Chicago, Illinois. In 1900, it was renamed The Cable Company, and continued to make reed organs under the brand name of Chicago Cottage until production ceased in 1918.

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• (1895 to 1898. The Chicago Cottage company occupied offices at 215-221 Wabash—the address given on the cover—from 1895 to 1898.) Catalog, Chicago Cottage Organ Company
• "A daylight special train-load of Chicago Cottage Company Products for James Munn, Binghamton, New York". Music Trade Review (1899-10-29): 29. "What th Chicago Tribune says: ..."
• Chicago Cottage Organ (1). Reed Organ Society, Inc.. "Company history: Started in 1879 in Chicago as the Wolfinger Organ Co. by F.R. Wolfinger, John A. Comstock and Herman D. Cable. About 1885 Comstock sold his interest to E.E. Wise, and George W. Tewksbury, both formerly connected with the Western Cottage Organ Co., and the name changed to Chicago Cottage Organ Co. In 1889 Fayette S. and H.M. Cable came into the business, which after H.D. Cable's death in 1899 became The Cable Co. with F.S. Cable as president. A second factory was built in St. Charles, Ill. in 1899."
• (1900 or later. Only in 1900 did the company rename itself "The Cable Company" and move its mailing address to Jackson and Wabash, as given on the brochure's final page.) Chicago Cottage Organs. (brochure), The Cable Company (formerly Chicago Cottage Organ Co.)
• Chicago Cottage Organ. AntiquePianoShop.com. "The Chicago Cottage Organ & Piano Company was originally established in 1879 as the Wolfinger Organ Company by a group of partners named Wolfinger, Comstock, and Cable. In 1885, the name was changed to Chicago Cottage Organ & Piano Company, and they built pianos and organs until the early 1900s. Shortly after the turn of the 20th Century, the name was changed to The Cable Piano Company, one of the most famous Piano manufacturers in American History."