Name |
Harry Page MAUS |
Birth |
29 Jan 1875 |
Richmond, Jefferson, Ohio, United States [1, 2, 3] |
Gender |
Male |
Residence |
1 Jun 1880 |
LaFayette, Allen, Ohio, United States [4] |
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Misc |
1918 |
Lima, Allen, Ohio, United States [5] |
Built first Page Organ |
- "In 1918, Dode Lamson and Harry Page Maus constructed an organ for the Quilna Theatre in Lima [Ohio] and, based on its success, established the Page Organ Company in 1923. They eventually sold about one hundred instruments, perhaps half of them to theaters, many in Ohio, but one as far away as California's Catalina Island (where it still serenades patrons of the resort's one-thousand seat Art Deco movie palace) and others to radio stations in Chicago and Fort Wayne. Introduction of the talkies let to a downturn in the business, and destruction of the factory by fire in 1931 sealed the fate of the enterprise."
Source: Osborne, William, "Music in Ohio," Kent State University Press, 2004, p. 498
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Residence |
1928 |
Lima, Allen, Ohio, United States [6] |
Address: 404 1/2 N. Main Street, Apt. 2 |
Residence |
11 Apr 1930 |
408 1/2 North Main St, Lima, Allen County, Ohio [7] |
Furniture Store Merchant |
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Living |
1931 |
Ohio Music Company, 404 1/2 N. Main Apt 2, Lima, Allen County, Ohio [8] |
Residence |
19 Apr 1940 |
Lima, Allen, Ohio, United States [9] |
Owner, Mfg. Sound Equipment |
Address: 808 South Main Street |
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Death |
27 Apr 1942 |
West Palm Beach, Palm Beach, Florida, United States [3] |
- Harry P. Maus, Widely Known Lima Inventor, Dies Monday Evening
Harry P. Maus, 66, widely known Lima inventor of talking movie equipment, pioneer radio station operator and prominent local sportsman, died at 10:30 p.m. Monday in West Palm Beach, Florida, at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Doris Gene Campbell.
Death came to the designer of one of the cinema's first types of talking machinery and radio expert after an illness arising from complications of diseases. Maus formerly owned a large furniture and general musical equipment establishment on the northeast corner of Main and Wayne-sts. The four-story building housed piano and furniture departments, radio and sound laboratories, residence apartments and at one time, this city's first radio broadcasting station. Operating with the call letters WOAC, the Maus Organ Co. 100 watt transmitter was one of the first on the air in the middlewest.
Maus, who had been in poor health for some time, left Lima two years ago.
A native of Richmond, O., the perfecter of many sound system devices spent most of his life in this district. In addition to many business enterprises associated with the talking screen and wireless, Maus was prominent in sportsmen's circles. Years ago he regularly participated in fishing and hunting junkets in which outstanding field and stream enthusiasts from the Lima territory took part. A cottage and power boat were maintained by Maus in the St. Clair river in Michigan. He held extensive parties there for local outdoorsmen.
In the early days of radio, Maus and Waldo Hauenstein, who also was active in electrical research, co-designed and built home receivers at the Main and Wayne-st headquarters of the Page Organ Co., later known as the Ohio Music Corp.
Maus started his musical instrument enterprise in a general store in Lafayette. Described as a tireless worker, he soon expanded the business to include pianos, according to G. D. Johnson, a gift shop operator who worked for Maus for 14 years. He recalled that the inventory moved to Lima in 1905, and from then on branched out into the various phases of sound work.
A factory built by Maus in Defiance was moved to N. Jackson-St. The large works produced organs sent to all parts of the nation. One of the Maus instruments was placed in the Quilna theatre and was believed to be one of the first installations of its kind in this part of the country. Pipe organs of Maus manufacture also were placed in churches and even on Wrigley's Catalina Island, Johnson recalled.
Maus sponsored many organ recitals in the N. Main-st studio from whence the WOAC broadcasts originated. After a fire in the building about 1931, Maus moved his experimentation equipment to a S. Main-St location, finally to Greenlawn-Av and Lake-Sts. He retired from business about five years ago when his health failed.
Surviving the scientist, who was an active member of the Elks lodge, besides his widow, Elma, and daughter, Doris, who was a magazine cover model and professional photographer, are a son and two brothers. They are Gerald Maus, of Marion; Frank of Newark, N.J., and Don Maus of Miami, Fla. The latter also is in the electrical business.
The body of Maus is to arrive here Wednesday. Time of the service to be held in the Davis, Miller and Son cathedral chapel, is undetermined. Burial will be in a Lafayette cemetery.
(published in The Lima News, Tuesday, April 28, 1942)
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Burial |
29 Apr 1942 |
LaFayette, Allen, Ohio, United States [3] |
Address: Lafayette Cemetery |
Notes |
- There was a fire October 7, 1933, at the Ohio Music Company and Page Organ Company.
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Person ID |
I3587 |
Watkins |
Last Modified |
9 Jul 2019 |
Father |
James Lewis MAUS, b. 14 Nov 1840, Perry Township, Allen, Ohio, United States d. 17 Jan 1924, LaFayette, Allen, Ohio, United States (Age 83 years) |
Mother |
Hannah Elizabeth LEATHERMAN, b. 31 Mar 1845, Allen County, Ohio, United States d. 14 Apr 1932, Lima, Allen, Ohio, United States (Age 87 years) |
Marriage |
13 Apr 1869 |
Allen County, Ohio, United States [1, 10] |
Residence |
21 Jun 1870 |
LaFayette, Allen, Ohio, United States [11] |
Wagon maker |
- Listed as James L. and Hannah Maus
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Residence |
1 Jun 1880 |
LaFayette, Allen, Ohio, United States [4] |
Wagon maker |
- Listed as J. L. and H. E. Maus
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Residence |
2 Jun 1900 |
LaFayette, Allen, Ohio, United States [12] |
Wagon Maker |
- They had been married for 31 years, and five of eight children were still living.
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Residence |
18 Apr 1910 |
LaFayette, Allen, Ohio, United States [1] |
Family ID |
F853 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
Family |
Emma BECHTEL, b. 24 Apr 1884, LaFayette, Allen, Ohio, United States d. 28 Sep 1959, Cridersville, Auglaize, Ohio, United States (Age 75 years) |
Marriage |
Abt 1897 [1] |
Residence |
2 Jun 1900 |
LaFayette, Allen, Ohio, United States [13] |
Oil driller |
Residence |
18 Apr 1910 |
LaFayette, Allen, Ohio, United States [1] |
Piano merchant |
Residence |
13 Jan 1920 |
1067 West Market St, Lima, Allen County, Ohio [14] |
President of Piano House |
Divorce |
Bef 1930 |
Lima, Allen, Ohio, United States [7] |
Children |
| 1. Gerald Lavere MAUS, b. 18 May 1898, Lima, Allen, Ohio, United States d. 5 Jul 1974, Toledo, Lucas, Ohio, United States (Age 76 years) |
| 2. Doris Gene MAUS, b. 2 Jan 1910, Lima, Allen, Ohio, United States d. 28 Feb 1989, West Palm Beach, Palm Beach, Florida, United States (Age 79 years) |
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Family ID |
F492 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
Last Modified |
10 Oct 2023 |