it was listed as a partnership between Henry Lindeman and Henry L. Oestreich, while about this time Ferdinand removed to join Herman in Cincinnati. In 1881 the address of the factory changed to 201 Mercer. The Cincinnati establishment had become Lindeman Brothers by 1881 and advertised grand, cycloid, square and upright pianos as well as Lindeman organs and musical merchandise for sale at 171 and 173 West Fourth Street. In 1886 all three brothers were involved in a corruption scandal involving the Cincinnati Infirmary, charged with having paid its directors $350 to approve a false bill for $700. Ferdinand was sentenced to a year in jail. A notice was published in November, 1889 that all stock of musical instruments, merchandise as well as office and store furniture of Lindeman Brothers, then at 181 West Fourth street, Cincinnati, would be auctioned, benefits of the sale to go to their creditors, but in 1890 Lindeman Brothers is listed at 157 West Fifth street Lindeman & Sons' New York warerooms removed to 146 Fifth Avenue, and 409 Eighth street, but the firm encountered financial difficulties and lost their Bradstreet rating in 1888. They attempted to raise cash by incorporating and issuing $150,000 public stock but by early 1890 their assets were as low as $15,000 with approximately $100,000 in liabilities. Lindeman & Sons was sold at auction in January, as was the property of Adam Brautigam, a well-known piano dealer of the same city, who had supported the company with up to $50,000 of his own money. Lindeman & Sons, Lindeman Piano Co. Within a month of the failure, Henry Lindeman organized a new company at 23 East 14th street, which advertised as the "old Reliable" Lindeman & Sons, although Lindeman testified at proceedings that March that he was an employee of the firm and that neither he nor any other family member owned capital in it. The 1890 trademark registration lists its president as William E. Wheelock (Sept. 24, 1852-Feb. 14, 1922), of piano manufacturers Wheelock & Company of New York, The Music Trade Review reported the new firm had been organized with the backing of C. B. Lawson, a member of Wheelock and Stuyvesant, also of New York, and Luther W. P. Norris (b. June 3, 1861), "a young man of great ability and pleasing personality" who had been connected with Wheelock for eight years, and that "[t]he artistic and musical