On 14 June 1861 he became a private in Company B, 15th Regiment Indiana Infantry, and shortly afterwards was assigned to a regimental band. With the outbreak of the American Civil War he enlisted in the army on at the age of seventeen, despite his parents' protests. Little is known about his early life, other than that he learned to play the cornet. In 1850 he accompanied his family to Three Rivers, Michigan and in the following year to Elkhart, Indiana.
The company was founded by Charles Gerard Conn (b.
1.2 Founding and growth of Conn's musical instrument business.Conn survived as a brand of musical instruments manufactured by Conn-Selmer, retaining several instruments for which it was known: the Conn 8D horn, 88H trombone, 62H bass trombone, 52BSP trumpet and the 1FR flugelhorn. The assets of UMI were bought by Steinway Musical Instruments in 2000 and in January 2003 were merged with other Steinway properties into a subsidiary called Conn-Selmer. The company was sold in 1980 and then again in 1985, reorganized under the parent corporation United Musical Instruments (UMI) in 1986. Conn was divested of its Elkhart production facilities in 1970, leaving remaining production in satellite facilities and contractor sources.
In 1969 the company was sold in bankruptcy to the Crowell-Collier-MacMillan publishing company. During the 1950s the bulk of its sales revenue shifted to electric organs. Its early business was based primarily on brass instruments, which were manufactured in Elkhart, Indiana. It bought the production facilities owned by Charles Gerard Conn, a major figure in early manufacture of brasswinds and saxophones in the USA. Conn Ltd., sometimes called Conn Instruments or commonly just Conn, is a former American manufacturer of musical instruments incorporated in 1915.
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