complete scientific course" at New York University, graduating in 1888, and that he worked for a year in one of the largest banking institutions in New York before studying three years as a pianomaker under his father. Henry Lindeman left his position as superintendent in Lindeman & Sons to join piano manufacturers Ivers & Pond in Boston towards the beginning of 1899. Henry Lindeman filed a petition for bankruptcy the same year, declaring his liabilities as $104,345 with no assets, but by that November he formed the Victoria Piano Company, with a factory on 157-159 East 128th street. By 1900 S. G. Lindeman's place on the board of the firm was taken by William C. Sherwood. Lindeman & Sons at this time employed about thirty workers, and listed at 550 West 23rd Street with $40,000 capital. Twentieth century Henry & S. G. Lindeman Henry and Samuel G. Lindeman formed a new company named Henry Lindeman & Son in 1900, but according to a notice published by Lindeman & Sons the following year in The Music Trade Review the new company adopted the name Henry & S. G. Lindeman in order to distinguish itself from the more established firm. A 1915 article in the same paper stated that they began manufacturing pianos on a small scale in a loft on 127th Street. but notices from 1900 listed them at 157-159 East 128th street. By the end of that year the paper reported that their factory was not convenient for them, and while the premises afforded "plenty of light and air" they needed more room for stock and it was thought they could "get just as good results on the ground floor", and when the firm's production increased—The Music Trade Review reported they had made and sold 300 instruments during the last five months of 1901, and had orders for 600 by February, 1902—it was necessary for them to lease another floor in the building of their factory, and in 1903 they moved to a new factory at 2 West 140th street. H. & S. G. Lindeman was incorporated with $100,000 capital in early 1907 with Henry Lindeman as president, Harriet Goldwater secretary and Samuel G. Lindeman treasurer. In March 1908 The Piano, Organ and Musical Instrument Workers' Official Journal reported Henry & S. G. Lindeman had leased a five story building, with their factory at 132, 134, and 136 West Twenty-fourth