PIPEWORK: Jerome B. Meyer & Sons, Inc.

Jerome B. Meyer (1872-1949) was born in France. His older brother Frank was a pipe maker in the J. Rinkenback organ factory in their home town of Ammerschwihr. Frank Meyer emigrated to the United States in the early 1880s and found employment as a pipe maker with Carl Barckhoff in Salem, Ohio. In 1888 he persuaded his brother Jerome, then 16, to leave Europe to avoid military training and to join him in Ohio where he could learn the pipe making...