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The Angelus Piano Player - Wilcox and White, Meriden, Connecticut, c. 1903

Introduction
Just across the road from the Aeolian Company, in Cambridge Street, Meriden, Connecticut, was the Wilcox and White Organ Company, founded in 1877 by Horace C. Wilcox and Henry Kirk White. As an important local businessman and partner in the Meriden Britannia Company, Horace Wilcox provided most of the capital for the enterprise, while Henry White and his sons brought with them great expertise in organ building, gained at the Estey factory in Brattleboro, Vermont.

The Wilcox and White Factory - Meriden, Connecticut, 1893.

During the early 1880s the firm produced normal reed organs, as did a good many firms in New England, but no doubt the metal processing industries, for which Meriden was famous, helped them gain an edge over their competitors in the production of reeds and other components. In 1888 they hired William D. Parker, a protégé of John McTammany, to be in charge of their experimental department, and before long they were making and selling a range of standard reed organs.

The Angelus Piano Player - Harper's Magazine Advertiser, April 1903.