Adolph Carl Christian PREYER

                   aka, Carl Adolph Preyer in US


Witnesses at Baptism:

1)  Adolph Armbruster
2) Karl Bacher (sp?)
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Also lived in:
Newark, NJ
St. Louis, Mo. w. Moxey & Lunderoth (sp?)
Belleville, ILL.
Baldwin, KS
Leavenworth, KS 1885-1991
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2301 Massachusetts, Lawrence, Ks.

http://www.livingplaces.com/KS/Douglas_County/Lawrence_City/Breezedale_Historic_District.html

Brief histories of the nine homes included in the Breezedale Historic District follow.
1. Carl A. Preyer Residence, 2301 Massachusetts, circa 1910, contributing. Because of its prominent corner location, it appears that this was the first house in the Breezedale Addition. Preyer was recorded as the owner of Lot 1 with a taxable value of $25.05 in 1910. Since adjacent unimproved lots were valued at $1.80, the house was completed by the end of 1910. Preyer acquired Lot 2 from Charles Sutton in 1914. Carl and Frances Preyer were listed as residents of 2401 [sic] Massachusetts in 1911. Mr. Preyer was an instructor at the University of Kansas. Frank Preyer, a student, was listed as boarding at the residence.
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Leavenworth, Kansas Directory, 1890-93  about Carl Preyer
Name:	Carl Preyer
City:	Leavenworth
State:	KS
Occupation:	mus. teacher
Year:	1892
Location 2:	r 916 s. 2d
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Naturalization Dates:
April 3, 1891
March 31, 1892

Sister living in Hungary.
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1881- Received his Artist degree in Music (Piano) from the Stuttgart Music Conservatory in Stuttgart, Germany.

Received his doctorate from Baldwin College, Baldwin, Kansas.

Was Associated Dean of Music at the University of Kansas and taught piano there for 39 years.

A well respected man with many personal and professional accomplishments.  Was honored posthumously in 19XX when the Crafton-Preyer Theater in Murphy Hall at the University of Kansas was named.

Transcribed from volume II of Kansas: a cyclopedia of state history, embracing events, institutions, industries, counties, cities, towns, prominent persons, etc. ... / with a supplementary volume devoted to selected personal history and reminiscence. Standard Pub. Co. Chicago : 1912. 3 v. in 4. : front., ill., ports.; 28 cm. Vols. I-II edited by Frank W. Blackmar. Transcribed July 2002 by Carolyn Ward.
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Preyer, Carl Adolph, musician and composer, was born at Pforzheim, Germany, July 28, 1863, a son of Jean and Marie (Heinz) Preyer. He was educated at Pforzheim, studied at the conservatory of music at Stuttgart, under Dr. Navratil at Vienna, and Professors Urban and Barth at Berlin. He married Miss Grace Havens of Leavenworth. Kan., May 2, 1887. In Sept., 1909, he was married to Francis Havens at Kansas City, Kan. He has been professor of piano at the University of Kansas since 1893; is the composer of melodies, numerous studies for technique, rhythm and expression, and of a number of songs, among which are: "I Love My Love," "Childhood," "My Love's Like a Red, Red Rose," "Elusion," "Snow Song" and "Spanish Song."
Page 501 from volume II of Kansas: a cyclopedia of state history, embracing events, institutions, industries, counties, cities, towns, prominent persons, etc. ... / with a supplementary volume devoted to selected personal history and reminiscence. Standard Pub. Co. Chicago : 1912. 3 v. in 4. : front., ill., ports.; 28 cm. Vols. I-II edited by Frank W. Blackmar. Transcribed July 2002 by Carolyn Ward.

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The Reuter Organ Company was founded in 1917  by A.C. Reuter, Earl Schwartz and Henry Jost as the Reuter-Schwartz Organ Company in Trenton , Illinois .
A.C. Reuter held positions at Wicks , Pilcher and Casavant  from about 1904 . Shortly after the company's founding Reuter's nephew, A.G. Sabol, left Casavant to work for his uncle's firm. The company had six other employees at the time of its founding besides Reuter and Sabol, they were Jake Schaeffer, a voicer from Casavant, E.J. "Pat" Nezzer, wood worker, William Zweifel, pipe maker, and Frank Jost, console builder.
The first Reuter was completed in 1917, and was the firm's only organ built that year; the instrument consisted of eight stops over two manuals and pedals, and was sold to Trinity Episcopal Church in Matoon, Illinois. While the organ sat in the erecting room a tornado struck Trenton, and blew out one of the factory walls. The assembled organ suffered severe damage.The company carried insurance, and neither the church, nor Reuter incurred any financial loss. A new insrument, opus 2, was built and set up in Trinity Episcopal.
1918  saw the completion of ten Reuter organs. In 1919  the company produced 14 organs, one of which, opus 22, was for the Masonic Temple in Lawrence, Kansas.

[edit ] Move to Kansas
In March, 1919, Carl Preyer, head of the piano department of the University of Kansas, was in St. Louis to perform with the Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra. Following his concert, Preyer traveled to Trenton, Illinois to visit the Reuter factory at the invitation of Sam Bihr, the Reuter representative for Kansas. While in Trenton, Preyer learned that Reuter was contemplating a move. Lawrence, Kansas was one of three sites being considered for a future location. During the installation at the Masonic Temple in April of 1919, Preyer convinced the company officials to select Lawrence as its new home. The Wilder Brothers shirt factory, vacant at the time, was purchased as the new Reuter headquarters.
While the factory in Lawrence was being prepared, the employees in Trenton started the arduous task of dismantling, crating and loading all of the equipment and furnishings. Eventually it took eight railway boxcars to move the production operation from Trenton to Lawrence.
On September 5, 1919, the company was incorporated in the State of Kansas. The board of directors was listed as E.G Schwartz, A.C. Reuter, H.T. Jost, G.O. Foster, and W.B Downing. Foster and Downing were both with the University of Kansas. The Lawrence Chamber of Commerce had pledged funds to help defray the cost of moving. On January 1, 1920, the new office was open for business, and on March 1 the remodeled factory opened for production. The city of Lawrence could now boast that it was one of the few communities in the nation with a pipe organ factory.
The first instrument built in the Lawrence plant was opus 27, a 23-rank organ for the Central Congregational Church in Topeka, Kansas. On July 3, 1920, the Lawrence community was invited to a public recital on the completed instrument in the assembly room. The performers were Professor C. S. Skilton, Professor C. Preyer, and Mrs. Sylvia Osborn at the console; Professor W.B. Downing and Miss Helmick sang solos; and Mr. W.B. Dalton played the cello.
Shortly after the move to Kansas, Earl Schwartz left the company, and Schwartz's name was dropped, and the company became The Reuter Organ Company.

[edit ] Recent History
On June 4, 2001, Albert Neutel, Chairman of the Board of Reuter, officially opened Reuter's new $4 million headquarters on the northwest edge of town, a building with double the space of the old Wilder Bros. shirt factory and truly the leading facility in the industry. The company, which in its first year of business in 1917 had but a single $1,800 contract, has become a multi-million dollar, international firm with organs in the United States, Canada, Taiwan and Korea.

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(Jefferson City, Mo.)
Web References
1. X-Z - Biographies of Cole County Persons
www.colecohistsoc.org/bios/bio  - [Cached]  
Published on: 3/15/2007 Last Visited: 3/15/2007
Together with Professor Carl Preyer, he established a music school then called the Jefferson City Conservatory. He was also organist in several churches. Eventually Preyer went to Kansas State University and Zeisberg taught at the Elizabeth Aull Seminary, Lexington, MO. ...The Zeisbergs had three children: Fred C., of the DuPont Company, Wilmington, Delaware; Carl L. of the Evening Bulletin, Philadelphia, and Ella, a teacher of high school mathematics in Wilmington, Delaware.